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Thursday, August 23, 2007

the LongPen is back

the LongPen is back
This is an impressive technology but makes me think about how absolutely removed we can be and still claim to interact. I'm not sure if this counts as a meaningful autograph; order the thing off of ebay for crying out loud
On the Road 50th Anniversary at the Free Library
This isn't until oct 4th (7 pm) but mark your calendars kids because it's going to be awesome.


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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits


Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits

This article is interesting because it points out one of the main flaws of Wikipedia which is the inability to constantly maintain informational credibility as well as the ability to input false information. The idea of the WikiScanner is tremendously interesting. I'm open to the possibility though that this is a media related one. Errors and occur in printed materials that are assumed to go through a rigorous editorial process but mistakes are able to be made to the same extent here as well. I.e. did Jack Kerouac really write On the Road in the three straight weeks fueled by only coffee on a single sheet of paper. One writer says he did and one writer says he did not, see last post. How does this editing of Wikipedia play into censorship and marketing propaganda? I'm glad to see that Wikipedia does not support this and will reject changes because of a lack of objectivity. (pg. 2)
Does Wikipedia force people to further examine the subject they are interested in to produce a cross-section of information to correctly fact check or does it engender laziness in looking for information because it seems to be comprehensive?


From Salzburg, a Mozart-a-thon





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Friday, August 17, 2007

On the Road Again

On the Road Again

It's unfortunate that Sante is not fact checked better as the alleged fact, really legend, that Kerouac pounded out this manuscript in three weeks is complete pish-posh according to Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 edited by David Brinkley who presents solid evidence to the contrary. This book is a fantastic, albeit edited, look into Kerouac's thought processes and writing labors while writing Town and Country and On the Road. Brinkley writes a fantastic biographical introduction to this collection which really helps piece together, especially for a Kerouac newbie as myself, to get a grasp on the writer and his world and the real life characters that built his writing.
Another good review:

You Don’t Know Jack

I hate to admit this but On The Road is actually a book on my "to-read" list rather than a book I have read. It's in my top 5 to read at this point, along with finishing Gravity's Rainbow and the collection of essays on writers in exile entitled Altogether Elsewhere. Benajmin's Arcades Project is always in the top 5 as well as Adorno in America.



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A Most Bookish Borough


A Most Bookish Borough

(we're moving)



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The Boy Who Lived

This is worth reading!!! The Boy Who Lived
*quick synposis: fantastic paralles drawn between Potter's books and Orwell.


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Still Vital, ‘On the Road’ Turns 50


Still Vital, ‘On the Road’ Turns 50


Also of interest referenced in this article is Kafe Kerouac in Columbus OH. website is here and myspace page, slightly more interesting than the current website, is here.

Thirdly of interest Silenced Press.



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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

back

so I've been neglecting this blog a bit over the past couple weeks for which I am sorry. I had a good groove going but with the term finishing up kinda lost it. But starting tomorrow morning will be back in business. Keep your eyes peeled for:

1) an essay in the works on whether our society is knowledge based or information based. I'm not
sure yet; you'll have to read the essay

2) Check out this site: www.mentalfloss.com.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

good things!

Yes it is true! Brand New is touring with MeWithoutYou. (No idea who Thrice is) December 6th and 7th are the Electric Factory show dates and the presale tickets already sold out so be alert. Ducat King is the ticketing site used.I emailed them to make sure the tickets were not already gone and was reassured that the tickets will be going on sale and to watch Brand New's website for those tickets.

I'm all tingly inside. MeWithoutYou is quite possibly the best band out there right now. I listen to Catch for us the Foxes and Brother Sister on just about a weekly basis. For a little excellent MeWithoutYou video action enjoy Nice and Blue (pt 2)

In other news the poem I posted to The Heel Press won their Moleskine Challenge for the month of July. Basically I get a sweet Moleskin book with my name embossed in the front. Pretty cool!

Friday, August 3, 2007

Gleanings

1) If you're not reading if:book you should be! Check out this brilliant post entitled the future of print.
2) Marketing the book :Tanks for the Memories: Print not dead, but it does have a hacking cough
3) Suggested reading from some fools, in the best sense. These books are on "Politics and Current Events and Issues. Each suggested book has a brief
explanatory blurb. These are not, of course, the only books worth
reading on these topics, but these stood out as particularly worthy of
recommendation."
4)Everything is dead
well at least in music. (Not Wolpe though)


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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Audiobooks are not cheating

I was trying to post this along with NY Times article but it's not working for some reason.


Listen, Do You Want to Know a Secret?: Audiobooks are not cheating




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Interesting!

Interesting Links:
1) This link
is interesting because it shows how the most current search engines are related to each other over the past. Also check the link,View the Search Engine Relationship Chart ® histogram,at the bottom of the first chart. This chart shows the progress over the past 7 years of how search engines have morphed and grown. It's a pretty cool chart.
2) On a completely different note American Music Center has a new website. You can listen to new works, see what artists are in your area and check out the AMC Online Library. You can search for composers and works as well as search the AMC score collection held at the The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. There are some pretty heavy copyright policies on here so the actual ability to get a score is questionable. I thought one particular sentence in the explanation of the policy was particularly illuminating: "We can now circulate only copies of scores for which we have permission to make a photocopy via a Deed of Gift form from the copyright holder. Some composers have not yet signed a Deed of Gift form, and, to this date, no publishers have signed one."(emphasis mine)
3) Upon the recommendation of Lydia, a fellow student in Cohort 7, I picked up Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow today in B&N. All I have to say in the first 50 pages is wow. It's one of those works where you have to immerse yourself completely and deeply in the text in order to catch the intricacies of the language. To simply gloss over the words in an attempt to catch the main areas of the plot will leave you very lost and confused in a matter of sentences. The first two sentences convinced me I was going to like this work.
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now."
-Pynchon pg. 1
Some Pynchon links for your information: ( I'm not going to lie, this guy is possibly more reclusive than Salinger and stranger in personality than Thompson.)
http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/
http://pynchonwiki.com/
Pynchon Notes
Enjoy!!

Your Cheatin’ Listenin’ Ways


Archaeological Digging In the Digital Age

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Goodbye to Newspapers?

Goodbye to Newspapers?

This is supposed to be a book review but it morphs into a genius bit of writing on blogs, the future of journalism, how big money affects/will affect newspapers and how once again people with money,power,stocks get to make decisions that will ont only affect us but our children.



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Chinese Market Awash in Fake Potter Books


Chinese Market Awash in Fake Potter Books

Any connection to Harry Potter aside, this is a fantastic article on copyright, intellectual property and the attempts vs. the non-attempts to enforce those type of rules.





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