root functions
The root functions of printing are replication and duplication. The root functions of digital communication are word processing and field sorting. These are the primary, early and persistent applications of the technologies and both departed from previous manuscript production methods of hand writing or typewriting.
So, and this is the point, the discussion going forward should acknowledge these fundamentals and not flail blindly. As products of these technologies, books replicate and duplicate manuscripts while blogs modify and search manuscripts. Projections of digital communications transforming books must use hybrid, uncertain and malapropt premise.
blog as self-watching
Collecting My Thoughts is an exemplar of evaluation using librarian skills....ever wonder who you are? Here is a method for the answers.
medium is message
Change of format changes meaning. Crucial subtopics are science and behavior based regarding the way we learn and the tactics of communication. These issues are not small in the course of politics, governance and trajectories of history. False dicotomies and polarities are decoys and distractions. We need to understand our vulnerabilities.
During most of the 19th century the news was posted weekly. Later at the end of the 19th century mechanical type composition enabled news to be posted daily.
Now we have news posted hourly. Its still news, (some would even say its the same news) but it has a different grip on our lives and thinking. These are largely effects of changing formats and reading behaviors.
changing book
The post-print of 18 essay presentations from the 2005 conference Changing Book has been published. It appears as
31/1-2, 2006, issue of Collection Management.
Here is an exemplar of the rambling adventure of the future of the print book. Learn how the leading
practioners view the ergonomics of comprehension.
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