http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/ Copyright 2009 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:28:29 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One of the guiding lights of the Institute over the past few years has been a belief in the increasing value of collaboration, following the open source model the underlies much of the web. This has been something that came... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/02/the_jazz_age.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/02/the_jazz_age.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:28:29 -0500 Hello everyone, I just wanted to send out a quick collective beg-your-pardon for not having yet weighed in on the exciting postings and discussions going on here in the days since the retreat. From the moment we got back from... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/radio_silence_our_apologies.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/radio_silence_our_apologies.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:35:53 -0500 Mary, wrote: Oh, and I know this is rather long for a blog entry. Is there a politer form I could post it in? Yikes . . . we desperately need these fantastic posts in commentpress so we can have... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/yikes.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/yikes.html Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:54:26 -0500 1. Disclaimer I've structured the following as a kind of schematic history, and histories are always to some degree rhetorical. So I offer this in that light, as a set of speculative pathways, from the tradition of print literature, through... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/the_network_made_visible_some_1.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/the_network_made_visible_some_1.html Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:59:37 -0500 This is a review of Chris Anderson's The Long Tail which I've scanned from p. 27 of the print edition of the 19 January 2007 edition of the Times Literary Supplement. (The TLS has a month delay on posting their... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/alan_lomax_the_long_tail_of_cu.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/alan_lomax_the_long_tail_of_cu.html Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:34:15 -0500 this isn't in opposition to what brian wrote. just some notes i made to clarify points i think need to be included. one big question i have is what is the purpose of the manifesto -- what do we want... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/some_notes_on_a_manifesto.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/some_notes_on_a_manifesto.html Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:41 -0500 There's been a lot of talk in the press lately about the possibility that climate change may be closer to the point of no return than people thought. It suddenly occurred to me that in all the retreat's discussions about... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/climate_change_technology_and.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/climate_change_technology_and.html Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:40:57 -0500 There are diametrically opposed cultural forces ranged in conflict across the world. In the face of increasing atomization, suspicion and hierarchical privilege, the digital age has opened vast new possibilities for human creativity and communication. It is challenging and transforming... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/manifesto_draft_from_brian_ple.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/manifesto_draft_from_brian_ple.html Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:05:06 -0500 the purpose of the meeting is to reinvent the institute -- institute 2.0 there is a loose agenda covering four large and general areas . . . . the intention going in is to tackle them in the following order,... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/agenda_in_process.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/agenda_in_process.html Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:17:04 -0500 I have another concern which has been coming up recently in a variety of guises, and which I haven't had the chance to think about as much as I'd like. This is at least partially triggered by reading the new... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/extended_thought.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/extended_thought.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:57:58 -0500 One of the most exciting things about working at the Institute is that we can propose new and interesting and run experiments without having to worry about their sustainability. Some ideas work and some don't. But when have ventured into... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/the_future_of_future_projects.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/the_future_of_future_projects.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:40:29 -0500 I want to air a few thoughts about how the Institute presents itself to the world, in particular the organization and design of our websites. If this little planning page is the Institute's "back porch," then if:book is the front... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/housekeeping.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/housekeeping.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:25:39 -0500 Sophie, Sophie, Sophie: she's still the monstrous child in the basement that we're afraid to bring into the light even though we know she has idiot-savant capabilities. It's another year, and Sophie's still not ready to present to the public,... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/quo_vadis_sophie.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/quo_vadis_sophie.html Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:43:44 -0500 Growing up in catholic school, yearly we had a retreat in the Jesuitical tradition of withdrawal from secular things in order to get in close contact with the spirit. I actually enjoyed those days of reflection on my faults, weaknesses,... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/some_important_points_bob_brin.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/some_important_points_bob_brin.html Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:59:33 -0500 our mission statement, about a year old now, included the following section: NEW FORMS, NEW PROCESSES Academic institutes arose in the age of print, which informed the structure and rhythm of their work. The Institute for the Future of the... http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/in_the_open.html http://www.futureofthebook.org/sidebar/2007/01/in_the_open.html Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:58:19 -0500