Monthly Archives: May 2007
Techno-Journalists
Rich Gordon at the Readership Institute has written a brief introduction to a new digital journalism program at Medill (Northwestern University) that offers scholarships to computer science majors and technologists.
The goal is to join technologists and journalists together into an efficient hybrid, because, as Gordon writes, the two camps do not understand each other. With [...]
Book Burning
The owner of a used bookstore in Kansas City, Missouri, says he will burn up to 20,000 books from his warehouse stock–books he could not even give away to libraries or other shops–to protest what he sees as the decline of the printed word.
Oh Helvetica My Sweet!
Mia Fineman wrote a slideshow essay on the classic font Helvetica for Slate on Friday, which then led to a companion piece in which authors tell Slate what their favorite fonts are (overwhelmingly Courier or Courier New, by the way).
From the textbooks on typography that I was able to read while working late hours in a [...]
E-Mail Bankruptcy
Some people are wiping their hands of e-mail, the Washington Post reported Friday. One witty blogger said he was “bankrupt” under a storm of e-mail and was starting over, though Sherry Turkle may have coined the term in 1999. It’s a trend that Post reporter Mike Musgrove found happening in many people’s in-boxes. The phenomenon [...]
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