Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context.
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There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set one [...]
Posts Tagged ‘reading’
[BookCamp] [PaperCamp] follow-up #1 – collecting a few posts and ideas
[BookCamp] Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print
The next session's title, Why Everything On The Internet Is The Opposite Of How It Is In Print, intrigued me, and prompted some great discussion. Session leader, Mary Harrington, outlined what she thinks are the five qualities of books:
- physicality
- fixity
- boundedness
- authority
- universality
The physical shape of books is underlined by the cost of [...]
[BookCamp] Creating New Readers
After a lacklustre lunch at Camino in Regent Quarter (tasty food but slow and surly service), I decided I should ignore the exciting conversations happening upstairs at PaperCamp in honour of some exciting conversations happening downstairs at BookCamp.
First up was a session suggested by Kevin O'Neill (not that one) to discuss the creation of [...]
