From Reading to Writing to Publishing with Digital Media
- I, Reader: A Nod to Asimov’s I, Robot
- Robots and Readers: A Tight Coupling of Container and Content
- Does Technology only Extend Thought? Does It also Supplant It?
- Machine Life: The Final Prejudice
- RB-34 Prefers Slushy Novels
- Creative Reading: A Golden String
- Creative Reading by anemone achtnich
- Creative Reading: The Art of Self
- Creative Reading: Thinking with Other Minds
- Creative Reading: The Art of Self, Take 2
- Creative Reading: The Discovery of Other (Thinking with the Minds of Others, Take 2)
- Creative Reading: The Mathematics of Self, Other and Extension
- What Books Changed You?
- I’ve always admired people who, in a pinch, are better than their principles
- Every Extension Breaks a Rule
- The Trajectory of Reading: Creative Contribution
- I Read, Therefore I Write
- What Readers Write May Not Be Literature, But It Might Become So
- “Narrow it down to … the upper left-hand brick”: Phaedrus
- “No one that he knew had ever written a whole metaphysics before”: Phaedrus
- Using a Blog to Draft a Book Idea: 9 Observations
- From Reading to Writing to Publishing with Digital Media
- Birth of the Reader-Writer
- To Read a Book is to Ignore 4000 Others
- Quantity has a Quality all its Own
- The Web is Re-Wiring My Brain
- How the Web Works for Readers: Thin Connections Lead to Rich Connections
- The Accidental Programmer
- Definitions of Hacking
- Ways of the Reader-Hacker
- Ways of the Reader-Hacker II: Breaking the Rules
- Ways of the Reader Hacker III: Two Bright Ideas
- A Hacker’s Reading List
- Ones and Zeros, On and Off Switches, All Sane Systems Require Downtime
- The Information Race and Pushing the Button
- How to Make an Elephant Statue
- Every Story Deserves a Good Ending
- Expressions of Offworld
- “Would I start to resemble a book myself?”
- Myth of the Reader-Hero
- Print is Digital
- Am I Still Chasing that First Reading High?
- Do Robots Read? Yes I Do (Conclusion to “I, Reader”)
- I, Reader: A Book Outline
- Reading List for Next Draft of I, Reader
Reading Causes Writing, Pt. 4
Reading causes writing. When readers write, it is not necessarily for publication, though the social dimension of publishing is still desirable. Blogging is a quick and easy way of getting the social value of publication. But more and more, digital media is making it easier for amateur writers to get published. Here a couple noteworthy items:
Cloud Publishing at the Book Oven. Writers upload their manuscript and can edit it using their innovative tools, such as Bite Size Edits to edit a bit at a time. You can invite others to help edit your work, providing annotations on-line. Volunteers can help edit for fun. You can generate a digital copy for web distribution. They aim to provide print-on-demand and sales capabilities.
Media Commons Press. These folks are trying to change scholarly publishing in the age of the internet. They provide an innovative interface for readers to comment on a manuscript. Their first major project is a release of Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, an apt subject for their mission.
Observing the continuum from reading to writing to publishing through digital technology is instructive. In the old world, there were barriers between readers and writers. Readers were in awe of writers, and writers were held aloof with authority, protected by their publishers. The new media has broken down those barriers. It changes what it means to be a reader. We are both reader and writer.
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