Monthly Archives: April 2009

microtxts: 238. en plena catarsis noté cuando respingó y salió de personaje. Me dijo: “No puedo venderlo. Mi corazón está eclipsado”. Adiós película. Continue reading →

Merci à Textes d’avoir repéré cette vidéo produite par la BBC. Un changement de paradigme, c’est indéniable! Continue reading →

Immatériel, à l’instar d’ePagine, joue la carte des libraires traditionnels. C’est tout à fait nouveau, il semble que peu à peu les sites se rendent compte que pour convaincre les éditeurs d’embarquer leurs catalogues, on ne pourra pas se passer… Continue reading →

Un libro que no se presente en la Feria del libro tiene poca chance de sentirse miembro pleno de la gran comunidad lectora. Esta es el tercero de mis 7 u 8 libros que merecen ese honor (o desatino).
La primera vez fue en el precaótico 2001, cuando presenté La Generación Nasdaq. Apogeo ¿y derrumbe? de [...] Continue reading →

On April 30th, Brittany Shoot of Religion Dispatches, interviewed Eileen Luhr, author of Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture (UC Press, January 2009). Below, are a couple of questions Luhr answered. Please read the rest of the interview entitled,… Continue reading →

George Santayana said “Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.” Certainly e-book history has been repeating—the iPod Touch and the Kindle are standing in for the Palm PDA and the RocketBook as another generation discovers e-books just as the early adopters did ten years ago.
But the history that people [...] Continue reading →

Here’s Robert Lanham’s Internet-Age Writing Syllabus:
Students will analyze the publishing industry and learn how to be more innovative than the bards of yesteryear. They’ll be asked to consider, for instance, Thomas Pynchon. How much more successful would Gravity’s Rainbow have been if it were two paragraphs long and posted on a blog beneath a picture [...] Continue reading →

Dans sa bibliothèque, Philippe Vandel parle formidablement d’Alexandre Vialatte… (DansMaBibliothèque) Continue reading →

The Open Access Directory is now a year old, and SPARC has issued a press release about this event.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:

The Open Access Directory, hosted by Simmons College, is a wiki where community contributors create and maintain simple, factual lists about Open Access to science and scholarship. Launched just one year [...] Continue reading →