Archive for the ‘The Stream’ Category
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kevin Kelly's long NY Times article in 2006 on Google Book Search has some elegant words on the transformative effect of digital books in general, beyond GBS. I'll precede excerpts from Kelly with bits from some of my recent articles, which resonate in interesting ways.
Kelly's comments parallel the static print ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
As so often happens, there are gems far down in Mike Cane's blog article (Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live) that deserve more prominence. Cane says the real potential of eBooks will only be realized (attained) when the "hidden" metadata content is brought out (Boldface added):
All of this ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Several commentors on my recent article about Salman Rushdie's imaginative foretelling of the Web have suggested that Rushdie's vision -- of a library made up of the Stream of all Stories ever told -- was influenced by Jorge Luis Borges' story The Library of Babel -- which describes the universe ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
In a prophetic passage written in 1990, Salman Rushdie paints a vivid word picture of the Ocean of the Streams of Story that I've suggested is an uncanny envisioning of the yet-to-be-created Web. Right now, the evolution of the Web seems to be speeding up, and two recent commentaries, one ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Nova Spivack, in his article Is The Stream What Comes After the Web? suggests that the new metaphor for the Web will be the Stream. He says that especially with advent of Twitter and microblogging, the streamlike nature of the Web has become more apparent:
Just as the Web once emerged ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
When I first read the passage below in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories three years ago, it struck me as a remarkable word picture of my experience of the Web. So of course I went right to Google to see if anyone else had made this connection ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Excerpts from Peter Brantley's eloquent words on the Google Book settlement, in A fire on the plain (bold added).
With recent back and forth over the proposed Google Book Search settlement (e.g., Robert Darnton's essay in The New York Review of Books; Tim O'Reilly's response; and James Grimmelman's litany of proposed ...
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