October 26, 2008
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 :)
Tags: archive, books, ocr, republishing, scan | Comments (0)
August 29, 2008
We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk - this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…
The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.
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July 24, 2008
An experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?
This is a poster and a text: an analog R-Echos
Would you be interested in investing in the tangible production of this work?
1. You can download the digital archive
and decide wether or not you’re interested in particpating in this project.
2. Each participant donate a minimum of £8
3. The publication is produced
4. We share the publications
which means each participant own a fair amount of publications and participants decide (collectively or individually) what to do with it.
minimum £8
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July 02, 2008
see it in context or go straight to the linked resource
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