bookmarking for myself; unlike the release of books 5-8, I will NOT be re-reading all the books in the series in their entirety this time around. (I’m behind anyway; need to pick back up with book 9 and move forward.)
Keep Our Secrets – new McSweeney’s children’s book uses thermal ink to reveal secret stories, a kind of interactive storytelling for analog books.
If you choose your own news, you’ll be less well read by Peter Preston
Digital news offers customers the choice of what they want to read. But print offers something extra: stories that people didn’t know they wanted to read until they had read them
I wanted to post this article because we talked a lot about this in Studio 20. My own thought on this is that if we made complicated issues easier to understand then people will want to read it. As journalists, we need find ways to make direct links between the mortgage crisis and what it means for YOU the reader. People want to read top news — digitally and through print. More importantly, they want to read news that’s easy to understand.
When I spoke to Tony Haile from Chartbeat-a live analytics service, he addressed the fear that Editors who take analytics seriously will end up doing a lot more stories on celebs and gossip and he’s found that the audience is smarter than that. Sometimes a change in title or position of the post can change the click-through rates. (This video will be up soon on the new FJP)
The solution is for us to not fear personalized curation of news but for us journalists to take advantage of the medium so that we can do our jobs better.
- Chao Li @cli6cli6
What’s your take on personalizing the news?
Libraries!
- University of Salamanca Library, Salamanca, Spain
- La Sorbonne Reading Room, Paris, France
- Old Library, St John’s College, Cambridge.
- George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Via Flavorwire.
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Given the London Borough of Waltham Forest’s recent history of destroying hundreds of thousands of library books, my sense of irony mandated me borrowing A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Báez from the miserable remains of Leytonstone Library. I wonder if whoever selected it for their collection was working on that basis as well. I’m glad I did, because it’s a superb piece of accessible historical scholarly writing and I highly recommend it.
(Source: sabino, via bookstorecouture)
I need this for at least one full day, without interruption. not gonna happen, sadly.
(via bookstorecouture)
