by KimBoo York | Jul 5, 2012 | Information Science, History of Text Technology
Two completely separate blog posts recently drove home the question of defining a text’s format. Is it a book? A document? A source file? Together they reveal the shifting nature of the definitions we use when we talk about publishing…or writing, or website...
by KimBoo York | May 25, 2012 | Information Science
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 (to protect the innards, quite simply) and relating...
by KimBoo York | May 23, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
As an acafan, one of the more interesting aspects of fandom to me is the migration of communities from one platform to another, and how that affects text. From hard-copy mailing lists to USEnet groups to YahooGroups to customized online forums and such forth, the...
