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• Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
  some sociologists speculate that reading books for pleasure will one day be the province of a special ?reading class?
  Tags: reading books entropy-meme psychology literacy orality
   
  
• Writers' Representatives, LLC: The Sins of Edward Said
  hatchet job on Said's Orientalism
  Tags: edward-said orientalism islam post-colonialism
   
  
• Google Takes Aim at Wikipedia, Is Now Officially a Media Company - John Battelle's Searchblog
  there's a great rant against wikipedia in the comments from someone who's obviously been stung by it
  Tags: wikipedia google knol knowledge expertise
   
  
• ?Journalism without Journalists,?
  poor old journos
  Tags: journalism msm media-participation citizen-journalism
   
  
• 'Bad Samaritans' and 'myth' of free trade
  Developed nations try to srongarm developing countries into trade agreements despite their own history of protectionism and imperial looting
  Tags: capitalism democracy economics free-trade hypocrisy market
   
  
• IBM software acts as human memory backup
  self-surveillance: "we don't have magic, so we're trying to use today's magic wand, which is the mobile phone equipped with a digital camera and GPS"
  Tags: technologies-of-the-self memory surveillance
   
  
• Slashdot | UK P2P Fight Brewing
  Comment: "Digital music and the internet removes any artificial barrier the music/movie industry has traditionally held, and now they are having to resort to pressuring governments into making laws to secure their channels"
  Tags: p2p ISP BPI RIAA piracy
   
  
• New In Rainbows Numbers Offer Lessons for Music Industry | Listening Post from Wired.com
  the music industry needs to stop thinking of shared files as lost sales, and start treating them as an aspect of reality upon which they can build part of their businesses.
  Tags: RIAA copyright piracy music p2p commerce business
   
  
• Magazine Preview - Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com
  a panopticon in reverse ? nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center
  Tags: trolls trolling psychology online behaviour
   
  
• Free articles get read but don't generate more citations
  and of course the focus of this study is the incentive of citation, rather than the accessibility of new knowledge
  Tags: academia open-access information knowledge
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, reading, books, entropy-meme, psychology, literacy, orality, edward-said, orientalism, islam, post-colonialism, wikipedia, google, knol, knowledge, expertise, journalism, msm, media-participation, citizen-journalism, capitalism, democracy, economics, free-trade, hypocrisy, market, technologies-of-the-self, memory, surveillance, p2p, ISP, BPI, RIAA, piracy, copyright, music, commerce, business, trolls, trolling, online, behaviour, academia, open-access, information,
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• Scholz
  The Web 2.0 Ideology ... is a framing device of professional elites that define what enters the public discourse about the impact of the Internet on society.
  Tags: web2.0 criticism society internet analysis
   
  
• Official Google Blog: Book info where you need it, when you need it
  google books API - allows you to detect viewable books and link to the google preview
  Tags: api book books google programming
   
  
• The Charms of Wikipedia - The New York Review of Books
  The inlcusionist argument at Wikipedia.
  Tags: wiki wikipedia community
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, web2.0, criticism, society, internet, analysis, api, book, books, google, programming, wiki, wikipedia, community,
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• Infringus maximus! Rowling gets injunction against Harry Potter Lexicon
  j.k. rowling, ownership, copyright and fair dealing
  Tags: copyright books internet literature fair-use
   
  
• The Liberal: Writing & Society - On Myth
  the more literature talks to other literatures, and reweaves the figures in the carpet, the richer languages and expression, metaphors and stories become
  Tags: literature myth writing culture intertextuality
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, copyright, books, internet, literature, fair-use, myth, writing, culture, intertextuality,
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Imported from Menticulture

Windsor, 1999: an American neighbour was a lover for a while. She heard me through the walls, I bought her flowers because I scared her daughter by banging on the door, and she thought I was 'Etony' because I wore a waistcoat with my suit.

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Author: joe:menticulture
Categories: system:imported:menticulture, xmas, poetry, american, lover, books,
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Biblipedia
 
A social web tool, allowing users to annotate books, create literature reviews, share notes, and find readings and notes by other users. A social scholarly bibliographical annotation tool. Funded by CEMP, Bournemouth University's Media School Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching Media Practice.

Author: joe
Categories: web:dev, CEMP, books, bibliography, learning-resource, pedagogy, literature, reading, scholarly, system:learningresource,
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• 3L Epiphany: Judge Richard Kopf (D. Nebraska): Legal Blogs Will Fill the Practicality Gap
  Tags: law blogging
   
  
• dhlovelife.com
  Tags: daryl-hannah
   
  
• John Battelle's Searchblog: China Rediscovers Porn, Bans It
  Tags: china porn
   
  
• Television reshapes its economy as technology advances
  Tags: msm tv trends market model
   
  
• alg: P&Ls and how books make (or don't) money: part the first: the mass market original complete failure
  Tags: books business Publishing
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, law, blogging, daryl-hannah, china, porn, msm, tv, trends, market, model, books, business, Publishing,
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• Safari Bookshelf
  Tags: collaboration writing
   
  
• Wired News: Awesome, I Sat Through That
  Tags: grassroots video first-person-media beasties
   
  
• www.unabridgedbooks.com | Your One Stop Book Shop :
  Tags: DRM free audio books mp3
   
  
• I n t e l l i g e n t T e l e v i s i o n
  Tags: MIT open transparency economy content
   
  
• BBC NEWS | Education | Science 'not for normal people'
  Tags: science culture
   
  
• Making The Writeable Web A Responsible Place (web2.wsj2.com)
  Tags: blogging open conversation quality wiki
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, collaboration, writing, grassroots, video, first-person-media, beasties, DRM, free, audio, books, mp3, MIT, open, transparency, economy, content, science, culture, blogging, conversation, quality, wiki,
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• Wil McCarthy's HACKING MATTER
  Tags: books
   
  
• CultureBully: CultureBully's 10 Favorite Mash-Ups 2005
  Tags: mashup music
   
  
• Mount St. Helens' Lava Baffles Scientists - Yahoo! News
  Tags: volcano
   
  
• USATODAY.com - Ready access to info means smarts or stress?
  Tags: internet information technology
   
  
• Michael Geist
  Tags: copyright law DRM
   
  
• Motorola Advertisements
  Tags: futurism advertising
   
  
• Boing Boing: Coldplay's new CD has rules: No MP3s, no DVD players, no car stereos
  Tags: DRM copyright law
   
  
• Boing Boing: Amazon's author-blogs and the Age of the Conversational Artist
  Tags: writing
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, books, mashup, music, volcano, internet, information, technology, copyright, law, DRM, futurism, advertising, writing,
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• BSB-I want it that way - Google Video
  Tags: hilarious
   
  
• Communicating - Forbes.com
  Tags: interesting
   
  
• Argus
  Tags: photography history
   
  
• LibriVox
  Tags: audio books OSS
   
  
• go fuck yourself - cheney.wmv @ ZippyVideos.com - Free Video Webhosting
  Tags: media-spectacle
   
  
• Nerve.com - A Farewell to IMs by Colby Buzzell
  Tags: technology culture sex virtuality
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, hilarious, interesting, photography, history, audio, books, OSS, media-spectacle, technology, culture, sex, virtuality,
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• CommonTimes.org - news you choose
  Tags: community bookmarks folksonomy
   
  
• BBC NEWS | Scotland | Beheading video man sent to jail
  Tags: media law
   
  
• WSJ.com - The Numbers Guy
  Tags: blog blogging statistics
   
  
• ANTIPODE/2
  Tags: mapping photography urban city
   
  
• MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Dogging beats blogging in public imagination
  Tags: uk culture media blogging elitism
   
  
• ALA | Action Guide, Suggested Activities
  Tags: censorship banned books activism
   
  
• Wired News: SuicideGirls Gone AWOL
  Tags: community porn
   
  

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Categories: system:imported:delicious, community, bookmarks, folksonomy, media, law, blog, blogging, statistics, mapping, photography, urban, city, uk, culture, elitism, censorship, banned, books, activism, porn,
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Imported from Menticulture

People who know me think of me as a book collector. I have some long bookcases packed with paperbacks from charity shops, cheap antiquarian relics, and everything in between; fact jumbled with fiction, though with some semblence of order around the science section, which seems appropriate. These people may be surprised to learn, though, that having been to my first Hay-on-Wye literature festival, I have come home empty-handed.

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Categories: system:imported:menticulture, hay-on-wye, books, secret, literature,
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Imported from Menticulture

In a book-shop in Hay-on-Wye - in the Cinema bookshop - I pass an aisle and catch out of the corner of my eye a section sign reading 'critography'. Already lost and desperate to find the exit from this maze of aisles and dust, I duck into another aisle and find pointers to the exit.

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Author: joe:menticulture
Categories: system:imported:menticulture, hay-on-wye, critography, endlessly self-similar universe, bookshop, literature,
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