There are some interesting changes happening this blog now… I’ve had a few big changes lined up for the mid-term future, but this change will come into effect immediately.
I’ve been an adjunct member of the Institute for the Future of the Book for the past few months now and to be perfectly honest, it has been great, but now, it now looks like I will now be an official member of the Institute. This is a very dynamic place and heavily dependent on grants, so I am not certain how long I will be around, but my bio recently went up on the website and we have some pretty exciting projects lined up…
This blog has been a place for me to post — what I thought at the time were — fully fleshed out ideas, but my desire to post fleshed out ideas severely effected the pace at which I posted. Now I plan to speed it up and share ideas that I am currently wrestling with, while more fully developed ideas will go at if:book. I don’t think this means that I will post crappy ideas (I hope), but I want to start posting ideas that I am not so certain about but still want to discuss.
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This Christmas I bought a few books for people, but after having them in my possession for a few days I became attached to them and I don’t think I will be giving them away anymore. This means that I have lots of reading to do. So for the next few months I will be reading and hopefully writing about Robert Levine’s “The Power of Persuasion”, Carl Sagan’s “The Varieties of Scientific Experience”, Jared Diamond’s “Guns, Germs, and Steel”, Richard Dawkins’ “The Ancentor’s Tale” as soon as I finish Jame Joyce’s “Dubliners” and Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”, both which a good friend recently gave me.
That is just a hint of where my mind will naturally drift in the following months.
Lets see…