The School of Everything is one of the better ideas I’ve heard for a startup in the last ten years: connecting would-be teachers with would-be students. They want to make it extremely easy to find people near you who can help you learn whatever it is you want to learn. If you think of all [...]
Posts on Ideas
Beckett for Babies
21 Sep 2007
From Crooked House, via Silliman, for Lauren, who had a similar idea.
Google Book Mashups
10 Sep 2007
Who needs a cut-up machine when you can embed and combine public-domain book-page slices via Google Books? UPDATE: “Ironics Light and Dark” above had to replaced with “ROBUST RED-BLOODED REALISM” because the 1901 poetry journal I had originally clipped from disappeared from Google’s index. One of the downsides of embeddable book clips. One of the [...]
Google Searching Your Bookshelf
07 Sep 2007
Photo: Flickr user gregw Back in February, I reviewed all the book-oriented social networks I could find and concluded that what I really wanted was a more personalized version of Google Books. The rich related content with which Google surrounds many books is what makes it so valuable. Compare the book information pages for A [...]
Altering Finnegans Wake
25 Jul 2007
With apologies to Tom Phillips, creator of the altered Victorian novel A Humument, and book alterers everywhere, I’ve been having a laugh altering Finnegans Wake. Amazingly, there’s a very straightforward linear narrative hidden in here about blogs. Parts 2-628 and back again TK.
The Message
16 Jul 2007
High-rise architecture and mini-skirts have much in common. Image, audio courtesy of UbuWeb. See also: Getting Rid of Animus
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About UbuWeb But Didn’t Know Who to Ask
04 Jul 2007
Concrete poetry was modernist in a Greenbergian sense. It embraced all of (Clement) Greenberg‘s ideas. The flatness of the picture plane. There was never an illusionistic space in concrete poetries. Hardcore modernist! And it’s extremely graphic. The first time I saw Netscape in January of ’95, the first thing that really caught me was the [...]
Embedding Your Brain With Box.net
18 Jun 2007
Box.net has one of the best apps on Facebook right now, because it’s so open-ended. Their Files app stands out amid the Facebook app frenzy because it lets you easily share music, video, photos, images, documents and whatever else you can think of via one handy box. Turns out it’s not just for Facebookers. Widgets [...]
