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Reading over your friends' friends'
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Reading over your friends' friends'
shoulders 04/09/2004 04:11 PM

Just for fun, I've (temporarily) added a small link after those sites on my "not recommended" list in the sidebar whose editors have Kinja public digests. Just look for the (k) after the site names. That way, visitors to kottke.org who like what I have to say can read sites I recommend and then check out what those recommended people are reading. That's right, all that mumbo jumbo means I've...




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It appears that others are beginning to pick up on one of the fundamental problems with services like Plaxo that we've been discussing here recently. With all the focus these days on making sure corporations protect your personal info, why are people so quick to sign up with services like Plaxo and hand over all of the private info of friends, co-workers and acquaintances? In fact, this reporter is wondering if Plaxo is violating new data privacy laws in Europe. When I give out my private contact info to you, does that mean it's okay for you to give that to a private company? While most people are concerned about companies giving away our data, why are we okay with our friends doing the same thing?

AdamB: We all stand on the shoulders of
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AdamB: We all stand on the shoulders of
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Laptops Are A Pain In The Neck... And
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Laptops Are A Pain In The Neck... And
Back... And Shoulders 04/12/2005 11:05 PM
With more and more people ditching desktop computers for laptops, people are beginning to realize the ergonomic disaster of laptop computers. It's not just the damage done lugging them around (though, that does contribute to it), but there's almost no good ergonomic way to use a laptop computer, because the keyboard is too close to the screen, meaning you're doing damage to some part of your body, no matter how you set up. That means that people in their twenties are having skeletal problems that used to only show up with those in their fifties -- which is a pretty serious problem for many. Some laptop makers (and accessory makers) are finally looking at ways to address the problem, but in the mean time, many of us are stuck hunched over our laptops, waiting for our backs to give out.

Internet saviour just 'small guy on
shoulders of giants'


Internet saviour just 'small guy on
shoulders of giants' 04/23/2004 09:38 AM
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Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary
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Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary
Reading in America 07/09/2004 01:22 PM
download a .pdf of the actual study on reading .. report

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If you're reading this, according to NPR
you are "no one"


If you're reading this, according to NPR
you are "no one" 07/07/2004 09:30 PM
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"No one was listening," said the NPR...

"No one was listening," said the NPR announcer, as she introduced the guy who post ed the note on Tuesday morning about the new Edwards decals on the Kerry campaign plane. No one was listening, except for the people who were .

Clearly no one reads blogs...

I'm going to be doing a Summer Reading Series interview for NPR this week. I should list all of the blogs people should read this summer. ;-)


What I'm reading...


What I'm reading... 07/10/2004 05:41 PM

I linked to this the other day in the linklog, but it occurred to me that maybe I should do a kottke and pull out my contribution to Phil's What Webloggers are reading post and stick it up here just in case anyone's interested:

I’m currently reading Dave Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity, which I was slightly dreading but now would highly recommend. After that I was hoping to muster the enthusiasm to have another stab at the last half of Larry Lessig’s The Future of Ideas. The arguments aren’t new to me, but I thought I should probably go back and read the man himself. I really need to start reading more fiction again. For a start, I need to catch up with my Neal Stephenson — I’ve not read The Confusion or Quic ksilver yet. But I’ll probably end up trawling through the various social software related bits of social science that I’ve been meaning to read for ages (Schelling< /a>, Goffman, Olson, Hall) and bunking off occasionally to grab a bit of Kim Philby’s My Silent War. I’ve become a bit obsessed with the whole Cambridge Spy thing since starting work at Broadcasting House.

Reading


Reading 12/11/2003 04:52 PM
My current reads, favourite reads of times past, and ever-expanding queue of reads to come. You'll see this post bounce to the top of the blog whenever I review or alter my list.

In Hand

For the full list, take a gander here.

On Queue

In Mind / On Shelf


Who's Reading What in RSS


Who's Reading What in RSS 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
Dave Winer has put together a cool way for people to see who's reading what in the blogworld, by asking people to share their OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) files, which in this context is a list of Websites I subscribe to using my RSS reader. He calls it a commons for sharing outlines, feeds, taxonomy -- and I'm fascinated by its implications.

Reading everything


Reading everything 09/16/2004 09:19 AM
When I was a kid, we had the twenty-odd volumes of The World Book Encyclopedia sitting in its own rack in our upstairs hallway. It was a lively encyclopedia, with pages of colorful flags from around the world and a supplement that one year used acetate overlays with the enthusiasm of a Hollywood director who's discovered a left-over special effects budget. I was not the nerd who in 6th grade let it slip that he was reading the entire set, although I was envious of him. Fortunately, my attention was soon taken up by the serious pursuit of masturbation. Still,...

The Reading File


The Reading File 01/17/2004 10:58 PM
It's a good bet that Mars will continue to fascinate science fiction writers and interplanetary travel proponents.

after reading that thread


after reading that thread 01/17/2004 11:09 PM
R2D2 is his co-pilot .. forums.nasioc.com .. H-Wing del Sol .. an auto forum

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Blog reading up 58% in U.S.


Blog reading up 58% in U.S. 01/04/2005 09:19 AM

"after reading that thread"


"after reading that thread" 01/18/2004 09:15 AM

Blog reading up 58% in U.S


Blog reading up 58% in U.S 01/04/2005 11:15 AM
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Reading with your ears


Reading with your ears 08/23/2004 06:49 AM
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A little light reading


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Books that can help start a home business

Happy Reading.


Happy Reading. 12/28/2004 01:51 AM
eSchol arship Editions. Like ebooks? Want something free, nonfiction,"scholarly", publicly accessible, and more recent than Gutenberg ? (Lately I'm on an Ancient History kick.) My problem with this "eScholarship" site is they try to make it hard to download a whole ebook to read offline. For one of those, for people who are interested in 20th-century political history-cum-theory that's never had much to do with any U.S. election, today I'm recommending the Platform.

Your Car Is Reading Your Email


Your Car Is Reading Your Email 09/09/2004 09:24 AM

"Necessary" reading on Google


"Necessary" reading on Google 09/22/2004 02:38 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Yoda sez: "I was just using Google to spell check the word necessary, you know to make sure I had it right, and the results were interesting! Nearly every result was a worthy read, with Hiroshima leading the pack." Link

The Death of Reading


The Death of Reading 04/27/2004 01:12 PM
Shortly after learning of the closing of Avenue Victor Hugo Books in Boston, a fire destroys Spartacus books in my former haunt Vancouver. Although obviously not related, the demise of these two institutions is sad, though Spartacus is trying to carry on through a series of fundraisers this summer. Good photos of AVH and Twelve Reasons for the death of small and independent bookstores.

Interesting reading


Interesting reading 04/04/2005 06:48 PM

## Peter Drucker looks at the big picture of the world economy today -- really four economies, he says: information, money, multinationals and mercantile exchange.

  For thirty years after World War II, the U.S. economy dominated practically without serious competition. For another twenty years it was clearly the world's foremost economy and especially the undisputed leader in technology and innovation. Though the United States today still dominates the world economy of information, it is only one major player in the three other world economies of money, multinationals and trade. And it is facing rivals that, either singly or in combination, could conceivably make America Number Two.

## Cy nthia Ozick reviews Joseph Lelyveld's memoir. I haven't read the book, but the former N.Y. Times editor apparently did a vast amount of legwork researching his own childhood. This is Ozick's discussion of the limitations of Lelyveld's approach:
  ...There is no all-pervading Proustian madeleine in Lelyveld's workaday prose. Yet salted through this short work is the smarting of an unpretentious lamentation: ''If this were a novel,'' ''If I were using these events in a novel,'' and so on. Flickeringly, the writer appears to see what is missing; and what is missing is the intuitive, the metaphoric, the uncertain, the introspective with its untethered vagaries: in brief, the not-nailed-down. Consequently Lelyveld's memory loop becomes a memory hole, through which everything that is not factually retrievable escapes. Memory, at bottom, is an act of imaginative re-creation, not of archival legwork. ''Yes, I was finding, it was possible to do a reporting job on your childhood,'' Lelyveld insists. Yes? Perhaps no. The memoirist has this in common with the novelist: he is like the watchful spider alert to every quiver on its lines. Sensation, not research.

Well put. I think one of the reasons I chose, as a young writer, a career as a critic rather than as a reporter was that I could not see devoting my life to writing that was all "nailed-down." Reporting is a necessary and valuable skill, and I have deep respect for those who do it well; it's hard, hard work, too. But it will typically miss that dimension of "the intuitive, the metaphoric, the uncertain, the introspective." In American journalism as it is conventionally defined by those who carve out the job descriptions, a critic's portfolio is broader, and it's possible, under the right alignment of stars, to feel as well as to record -- or rather, to record what one has felt along with what one has witnessed.

## Apparently there's a movement afoot in the world of writing about games to be less "nailed-down." It's called the "New Games Journalism" -- "a narrative, experiential approach that acknowledges the effect of the game on the player." I'll need to read up. This was sort of what I had in mind 15 years ago when I began to move my attention from the world of theater to the digital realm, and thought, hey, why not try writing more ambitious reviews of videogames? I'd just turned 30, though, and was already feeling that the gaming world was one I would be less and less able to keep up with as the decades advanced. (So right!) So I wrote one opus -- an "experiential" discourse on the world of Super Mario -- and moved on to broader terrain.

I Need Reading Lessons


I Need Reading Lessons 05/13/2004 06:32 PM
I need reading lessons or something. I know that when people read on the web, they often skim. But I seem to forget that I'm one of those people too. Someone pointed me at this story a little while ago and I read skimmed it (twice) as "Yahoo Mail will be providing 100MB of 'virtually unlimited' storage" which is, obviously, a dumb thing to say. We all know that Gmail offers 10 times that, right? So I pointed this out...

"Steve Reading"


"Steve Reading" 03/23/2005 04:58 PM

Hi-tech reading aid comes to UK


Hi-tech reading aid comes to UK 07/15/2004 06:50 AM
A device that lets visually-impaired people read books more easily has been launched in the UK.

Recommended Reading


Recommended Reading 05/21/2004 08:24 AM
You can learn a heck of a lot by reading just a few enjoyable business books.

More required reading


More required reading 11/10/2003 11:28 PM

Via Craig, Big John and Holly Bergevin present Float: The Theory and Flow ing and Positioning: Two Page Models. Both articles take a complex topic and present it in clear, straight forward terms with excellent illustrations and the kind of insight in to browser bugs (in particular the vagaries of IE) that you just won't find anywhere else.


FC Now: From the Reading Pile


FC Now: From the Reading Pile 06/17/2005 03:40 PM
The most recent edition of Knowledge@Wharton includes a couple of interesting articles. Good Managers Focus on Employees' Strengths, Not Weaknesses focuses on the work of Marcus Buckingham, who suggests that good leaders play chess rather than checkers. And Florida Red...

"What bl0ggers are reading"


"What bl0ggers are reading" 07/10/2004 03:20 AM

Mind Reading


Mind Reading 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
An American researcher taps collective consciousness by scanning Web searches.

Remedial XML: Further reading


Remedial XML: Further reading 06/06/2002 06:00 AM
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Currently Reading: Trading Up


Currently Reading: Trading Up 01/05/2004 03:00 PM
Trading Up: "Middle-market consumers, in the United States and around the world, are trading up to New Luxury products and services that deliver higher levels of quality, taste, and aspiration than conventional ones. Because New Luxury goods sell at premiums of 20-200% over standard midprice goods, they deliver higher profits. They also sell in much higher volumes than superpremium products."

It's a rather interesting look at what's driven the success of companies like Starbucks, Victoria's Secret, and others that make huge profits selling premium-priced products on a mainstream scale. This goes against the traditional assumption that goods sell at either a low volume or a low price. Turns out, people will "trade down" in some categories that don't matter to them in order to trade up in areas that do.

It pretty much only talks about real-world goods, not software or web-related stuff, nor even high-tech stuff, and I don't yet know how exactly the lessons apply to the areas I usually think about. But they probably do. (Is Apple a trading-up brand? Or is it not mainstream enough? Maybe") I'm only about a third of the way through it, but good stuff so far.

Want A Job Reading Email?


Want A Job Reading Email? 07/20/2004 12:40 PM
A new study has found that companies are so worried about what's going out over email that 44% now employ people whose job it is to read outgoing email to make sure company secrets aren't getting out. Now, it may depend on the company (and secrets) in question, but doesn't it seem likely that paying someone to read through outgoing email may be a bit expensive than the likelihood of real risk from an outgoing email?

reading “Voynichese”


reading “Voynichese” 01/08/2004 08:17 PM

Here's something weird and interesting from this week's Economist: an article on the Voynich manuscript. Quote:

THE Voynich manuscript, once owned by Emperor Rudolph II in 16th-century Bohemia, is filled with drawings of fantastic plants, zodiacal symbols and naked ladies. Far more intriguing than its illustrations, however, is the accompanying text: 234 pages of beautifully formed, yet completely unintelligible script.

Modern scholars have pored over the book since 1912, when Wilfrid Voynich, an American antiquarian, bought the manuscript and started circulating copies in the hope of having it translated. Some 90 years later, the book still defies deciphering. It now resides at Yale University.

The manuscript is written in “Voynichese”, which consists of strange characters, some of which look like normal Latin letters and Roman numerals. Some analysts have suggested that Voynichese is a modified form of Chinese. Others think it may be Ukrainian with the vowels taken out. But Voynichese words do not resemble those of any known language. Nor is the text a simple transliteration into fanciful symbols: the internal structure of Voynichese words, and how they fit together in sentences, is unlike patterns seen in other languages.

The other alternatives are, as the article notes, that the manuscript is either in code, or simply a hoax. Nevertheless, my geek-sense flares up when reading about something like this. Oh boy! An entire manuscript to decrypt, and a few centuries old to boot! Does that sound like fun or what?


3D bl0g reading!


3D bl0g reading! 07/07/2004 12:43 PM
well, it's kind of like 2D reading on a skewed plane, but still! the future!

Friday reading


Friday reading 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
PV Comics has hundreds of pages of free comics from a dozen talented artists. Friday reading fun!

Reading the news reader


Reading the news reader 09/23/2004 03:00 AM
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How the Web changes your reading habits
| csmonitor.com


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Blog Reading Factoid


Blog Reading Factoid 07/19/2004 01:05 AM
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