I pride myself somewhat on how I organize these posts, only to find that those of you receiving this in the email version will think I am careless and disorganized. In truth, it is the blogger editor which while never very good has gone from bad to worse. I spend at least 50% more time putting these things together now versus how long it took prior to the 'upgrade'. So my apologies...
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Bangkok August 1969Another weekly image from my archive. Click on it to make it larger.These boys all look happy and cheerful waving to the silly tourists out sightseeing. This is old Bangkok where life centered around the rivers and klongs and, while some of this still exists to the north of Bangkok,...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Interview with Tom Waits in the Observer:"Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting," he says. "The idea that it will just be a sort of vapour that you listen to out of speakers the size of a dime alarms me. It's like injecting yourself. Or eating alone."He is, he says, equally wary of the ease of search and shuffle. "They have removed the struggle...
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Exclaiming this is the time for start-ups the Frankfurt Book Fair concluded on Sunday with traffic slightly up and a continued expansion to more diverse attendees and exhibitors:With many exhibitors and visitors, not only from the book industry, but also other related industries such as film, games, and information and communications technology, the Frankfurt Book Fair demonstrated that the sphere...
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Author Roger Rapoport writing for the McClatchy-Tribune News Service takes us on a best picks tour of the fair (Link)Two years ago my pick for the most overlooked title at Frankfurt was "Nobody Owns the Moon," a Viking/Penguin Australia picture book by Tohby Riddle. This year I have a new nominee, a title that should be required reading in every school in the land. Can we have a round of applause...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Frankfurt has always been my favorite of the trade shows I've visited. There's such a variety of people, customers and potential business partners that its unlike any other book show. It is a gloomy day today and rain is forecast for tomorrow but the threat of industrial action may be less imminent since the government has become directly involved in getting the parties to negotiate. A...
Friday, October 7, 2011
Out the window of a 707Pam Am the TV show may fail just like the airline but for nostalgia fiends the show has been widely anticipated and, in the first viewing it didn't disappoint for anyone who flew with Pan Am in the 1960s. Which of course is the point: To capture the spirit and glamour of the Mad Men...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
The Chronicle reports on a case brought against UCLA for breaching copyright in using streaming video. James Grimmelmann, an NY Law School professor believes the dismissal of the case could have repercussions for the recently filed Authors Guild/HathiTrust case. Gimmelman is quoted as saying "If the HathiTrust suit were to be decided tomorrow by the same court, it would be dismissed.”...
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Inside Higher Ed interviews author Kathleen Fitzpatrick about her views on scholarly publishing (IHEd):Although peer review is often portrayed as an institution that arose with the scientific method, Fitzpatrick suggests the roots of peer review were “more related to censorship than to quality control,” serving mainly to concentrate academic authority in the hands of journal editors and, later, their...
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