On tuesday, I’ve been invited by Maki and Kajsa to introduce my work to their Art & Communication design students at Royal College of Art. The idea of this talk/presentation was to introduce them to as many as possible of the topics that are thrilling me at the moment; giving them an idea and some keys to understand and interact with the digital landscape that surrounds their practice as designers.
To do so, and preserve the coherence of the whole speech without getting to much into details, i decided to consider this talk as a live reblogging experimentation – and produced R-Echos issue 3: Live reblogging. I had a couple of bookmarks ready to be loaded in the browser, I also took with me a box with some nice things inside and a couple of books.
R-Echos
* please use the comments for details and further reference.
March 19, 2009
Categories: designing, event, r-echos, republishing, talk
Tags: electronest, live, performance, r-echos issue 3, reblog, reblogging, republishing, talk
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A little while ago, Pierre sent me an image of a project he thought about for quite sometimes. The idea complements the republishing process of R-Echos and is based on sharing quotes from the books we read.
http://dogeared-books.electronest.com/
the rule is quite simple:
for each quote we like, we make a corner in the book; after a few pages, at the end of the capter, when we finish the book, or stop reading it – we scan the pages and retype the quote (ideally we would use OCR)
After a while we will end up with a very nice collections of cornered pages, and also a database of our favourites bits and pieces from the books we read and which have no search functionality – it is a kind of personal Google Books as well.
* You will notice there are Amazon ads – for a reason: ideally, i would like this experiment to be self sustainable, and the sharing of books could pay for buying the next ones. So if you enjoy the project and find a few books you would like to buy – please use our links, we asked Amazon to pay us in books :)
October 26, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, newly released, website
Tags: archive, books, ocr, republishing, scan
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