April 29, 2008 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Project, Tidbits of nanohistory
Because history is for sale on eBay, and nobody knows what’s in a “rough old book, good condition for its age”.
Tonight, while thinking diligently about how best to share these all in a new format, scanned this old tome:
Seems pretty dry, eh? History ≣ dry.
Why is this of any interest at all? Because people like Thomas S. Grimké were in attendance, and they thought some weird things that are still holding sway over American education to this day. Here’s Grimké’s preface to his address:
April 28, 2008 at 11:40 pm · Filed under Project
Somewhat zoomable scan of a bookseller’s catalog I have on hand here. If you regularly visit the blog, you may need to force-reload the page in your browser to get the little pieces to line up correctly. I had to have the sitewide CSS to get this to work here.
I’m trying to spec out a browsable, legible interface for scanned books with some complex page structure. You’d want to zoom in to read the images, but not lose the relational block structure; you’d want to be able to read the text somehow. A lot of the things I have in mind are encyclopedic, may have 10000, 20000 entries per volume. Be nice to break those apart individually, like blog entries.
But the big goal here is that the original page structure needs to be visible, but zoomable. I know I could do some stuff with PDFs, or with JPEG2000, or with some neat Flash crap… but you draw your pages with the software you have, not with the software you wish you had.
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“Hachis Parmentier”
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“You’ll learn to get answers by asking other people. You’ll learn to obtain new information by exchanging information with other people. This, of course, puts in active communication with people, instead of being a passive consumer of feeds.
Feeds
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April 21, 2008 at 5:41 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Following Alan Gutierrez’s advice, regarding something I was struggling with anyway, I’ve deleted all RSS feeds from Vienna.
What I’m going to try for a while is going to people’s blogs and looking at them and reading them and seeing what they say and responding in situ. Seeing their design, paging through their long posts, looking at the pictures. Reading their damned ads, even.
That is, having conversations.
I think that’s something I missed about feedreader city. And besides, I think I write less because I’m fed too much.
Plus the only reason I had a mere 9087 unread posts in my feedreader was the preference that only kept the most recent 20 in each feed….
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