He accomplished 50 of the things he claimed everyone should do.
Classic issue with Neil McLaughlin taking the correct position on a complicated issues. I think faculty should be strongly encouraged to teach their books. And they should donate any royalties that stem from that practice to charity.
Via Marcel. Interesting looking book by an early Google Brand/Marketing director.
This review was bad but should have been worse IMHO. '“Why would anyone go to such lengths to get hold of a memoir whose essential purpose was to entertain?†(Oh, perhaps because people don’t find it very entertaining to be depicted as charlatans.) Such faux naïveté is unbecoming in someone as savvy as Lyons is, and makes him seem, in the end, an unreliable narrator of his own story.'
Good project by some good people.
New publishing imprint from a major publisher to use only CC works available for free on the Internet at the time of publication. Hal Abelson is on the advisory board.
Dan Lyon's employer/publisher pans his book! Sounds real bad.
Looks interesting and reminds me a bunch of Andy Abbott's book on Methods of Discovery. I should go back and read that one again...
Social "reading" community/application.
This guy gave away a copy of Ted Nelson's literary machines. Horrible news he's gonna be gone.
Keeping track of physical items is hard,
If anyone wants to be my best friend, they can send me this book. It's super rare and it just went onsale.
