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A 'New' Way to Read and Write — January 16th, 2008, 12PM
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I have been reading, lately, about writers’ relationships with computers, specifically the idea that the technology used to write (pen versus keyboard, etc.) affects what’s written. Nothing new in that discussion, but I have noticed one thing: that whilst most writers say that their work is different depending upon what it’s written with, and that [...]
[Keywords: Arts and Crafts (movement), books, cartography, how I write, keyboard vs. pen] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’m bored and tired this Monday morning, but still I flick through my blog feeds; I found this: [if:book: ephemera] from the Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s an interesting idea: that the inconsequential, unconsidered, printed matter of the day gives ‘the future’ (the people, that is) insight into how normal lives were [...]
[Keywords: archiving, books, how I write, Tools] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Another gap in posts for this blog; sorry. (Not that there’s anyone reading this to say sorry to, but as they say: meh.) It’s not that I haven’t been writing lately, I have, but in places that the web doesn’t reach; I’ve been enjoying that. But it’s four-thirty on a Thursday afternoon and I’m at [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, boredom, how I write, Investigation, keyboard vs. pen, Speed, Things, Transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Urban Adventure in Rotterdam Not that I’m bored today at work or anything, as you can see: not posting for a month, then here I am warbling on about urban exploration! But then I would really rather be out charting the course of a drain, or sketching the rust scars on a strange unknowable lump [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Fremantle, how I write, Investigation, Place, Placeblogging, Railway] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have often thought that one of the greatest attractions for me to writing in ink, on paper, in a properly-bound book, is that where one writes the words is where they will remain, and the only place they will ever be. That’s not the case when writing on a screen: I often write a [...]
[Keywords: archiving, how I write, Investigation, keyboard vs. pen, Things, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
