A place to talk
On Glut & Orality and Literacy
A museum
On Glut
Glut
Alex Wright
Alex Wright shows the many ways we have endeavored to manage an abundance of information, beginning with libraries and encyclopedias, running through taxonomies and folksonomies, and into networks which both eschew formal organization and evolve governing structures as they mature.
On the news
How we read is breaking ranks with how the news is made.
A web designed for reading
My thoughts on the new Readability.
Three
On building a publishing house, and loving great content.
The Elements of Content Strategy
Erin Kissane
The third title from A Book Apart, and the one closest to my heart. Kissane explores the roots of content strategy, as well as the methodologies behind the work.
How to Write a Sentence
Stanley Fish
Fish argues that the building blocks of writing are sentences, and that if you want to write a good one, you first have to learn how to read it.
Shy animals
On A Week at the Airport
A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton
A slim document observing the place most of us strive to avoid; a good lazy travel book.
“Readers are fickle”
On U&lc
U&lc
John D. Berry
U&lc was a magazine of experimental typography, founded by Herb Lubalin in 1973, and published through 1999. John D. Berry’s tome includes reproductions of many of the original issues, plus notes on the history of the magazine from Berry and others.
A buffer
On The Courage to Create
The ravages of space
On Time and the Art of Living
The Solid Form of Language
Robert Bringhurst
Bringhurst’s short essay meanders through the history of scripts and their varied forms, touching on the origins of their physical shapes as well as the political and social forces that impacted them along the way.
Forgotten
On Time and the Art of Living & How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
Modes of writing
Of blogs and books