John Miedema

Slow Reading

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Series

• Audio Books
• Building FuzzyCat
• Building OpenBook
• Building OpenBook 2.0
• I, Reader
• Information Ecology
• Interiority: A Library Phenomenon
• Kindle Shakedown
• Progressive Librarianship
• Voluntary Slow Reading: A Facet Analysis
• Voluntary Slow Reading: The Research

Recent Bookmarks

• Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
  Back in October, we wrote a research paper entitled “Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine” and submitted it to WWW 2010. We found out last week that it has been accepted, so we wanted to share a preview with you today! […]
• Missing Internet Pioneer Phil Agre Is Found Alive - All Tech Considered - Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR
  confirming that Agre had indeed gone off the grid rather than being harmed […]
• iPad as Kindle Killer is more storyline than reality « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books
  There are a few easy ways to tell that the iPad isn’t really meant to be a Kindle Killer - 1. On the iPad features page iBooks is the 9th feature highlighted – surfing the web, email, photos, video, YouTube, iPod, iTunes and the App Store are all featured before iBooks. […]
• Three definitions of “reader” / from a working library
  The third definition shifts from the object to the machine: a device for reading data. No longer human, the reader becomes mechanical, the texts reduced to ones and zeros. There are no stories, only limitless information, each digit as insignificant as the next. […]
• Good Hackers. Copyfight: the politics of IP
  O'Reilly: their e-book sales for 2009 were up 104%. What makes that an interesting number is that they took all the DRM off their books about a year and a half ago. […]