black holes in the gutenberg galaxy

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A talk delivered at the Off the Press: Electronic Publishing in the Arts conference, Rotterdam. Also available as a video: https://vimeo.com/97508658

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black holes !

in the !

gutenberg !

galaxy

Flip-Flop (n.)

The process of pushing a work of art or craft from

the physical world to the digital world and back again — maybe

more than once.

Robin Sloan

Greyscale

Press

motherearthmotherboard

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other board

In which the hacker touristventures forth across the wideand wondrous meatspace ofthree continents, acquaintinghimself with the customs anddialects of the exotic ManholeVillagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the NileDelta, the Cable Nomads of Lantao Island, the Slack ControlWizards of Chelmsford, theSubterranean Ex-Telegraphersof Cornwall, and otherpreviously unknown andunchronicled folk; also,biographical sketches of the twolong-dead Supreme NinjaHacker Mage Lords of globaltelecommunications, and othermaterial pertaining to thebusiness and technology ofUndersea Fiber-Optic Cables,as well as an account of thelaying of the longest wire onEarth

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there are keeps in this labyrinth wich onlythose who live there know, for the labyrinth patterns are built into the soul. anyone with different maze patterns could never find his way.

Book Spam

Spam Books

Aram Bartholl, Are you human?, 2010

SEO

for Writers

(time left?)

Unfinished

Things

Things We

Need

A Silkroad

of (e)books

A Mesh Network

of Book Sellers

A Digital

Publishing

Toolkit

command-line

web UI

version control

writing offline

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