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Ted Striphas on Algorithmic Culture

October 11, 2011

In this interview for CBC Radio show Spark, Ted Striphas, associate professor in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University and author of The Late Age of Print, talks to Nora Young about algorithmic culture and the social implications of leaving discovery and serendipity to complex math: CBC RADIO SPARK: Ted Striphas on Algorithmic Culture Striphas [...]

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Monday Miscellany

October 3, 2011

I’m sorry for the lack of a weekend post, but to make up for it, here is a Monday round-up to get your week started right… Owned — Josh Davis AKA DJ Shadow interviewed on the Intelligent Life blog: My sense of value comes from the fact that music is my life… People always think it’s [...]

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Merchants of Culture | Beyond the Book

January 26, 2011

An interesting interview with John B. Thompson, author of Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century, at Beyond the Book: [R]eaders are going to be faced with a growing proliferation of possibilities in terms of the ways that they read and consume the written word, and people will make different choices about [...]

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Something for the Weekend

December 3, 2010

Limits and Boundaries — Peter Mendelsund, associate art director at Knopf, discusses his cover design for Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman with The New Yorker’s ‘The Book Bench’: [O]ften my favorite jackets are the ones done after repeated rounds of failure and rejection. There’s something to be said for the desperation that rejection engenders in me. [...]

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Something for the Weekend

July 16, 2010

The Trouble With Amazon — Colin Robinson, co-publisher at OR Books (so perhaps not entirely neutral), on the internet retailer for The Nation: The accumulated effect of Amazon’s pricing policy, its massive volume and its metric-based recommendations system is, in fact, to diminish real choice for the consumer. Though the overall number of titles published [...]

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