Tag Archives: text technology

What is in a document?

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

Our current terminology for what a book is happens to be based on a very old technology… Continue reading →

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Text, data and design

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

A friend sent me a link to fantastic essay by Craig Mod called Hack the Cover which is not quite a manifesto about ebook cover design. It is Craig thinking seriously about how book covers developed in the first place … Continue reading →

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Text Migration: new, meet old

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

the AO3 is delivering perhaps a death knell to the primacy of LJ for fanfiction because it is simply easier to read. But the cost is a loss of community Continue reading →

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