• Bookstore Tip Jar (not for employees, but for the institution as a whole)

    The previous post mentioned Porter Square Books in Cambridge.
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    I was lingering there, I was early for something and had a few minutes. But after a time, I felt like I was “using” the place. I wasn’t planning on buying anything. At that moment, it was less a store than a fresh-stocked library.
    Regarding [...]

  • Browsing Pattern 2

    I was at Porter Square Books, leafing through their magazines and found the Art issue of The Believer was out.  I’m not a reader, but I decided to pick it up.
    Leafing through it, I found this nice “discussed” device they use at the head of each of their articles:
    It’s another kind of teaser to tell [...]

  • Handling Transitions

    Wow:
    http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/karin-fong/between-spaces/spaces-between-leave-us-betwixt
    This is a great post by Karin Fong, a motion graphics/designer at Imaginary Forces.  She’s talking about 2.5 d.
    Depending on when/if you choose to read her post.  Wikipedia defines 2.5 D as
    2.5D (”two-and-a-half-dimensional”), also called pseudo-3D, is an informal term used to describe either a) graphical projections and techniques which cause a series of images [...]

  • Browsing Pattern

    I was leafing through Brookline Massachussetts Adult & Community Education Catalog for 2010, and I noticed this nice move.
    Probably much more common than I realize, but in the outer margin they included a teaser for other class listings on other pages.  They also had famous quoutes and the like.
    But this other dimension of communication caught [...]

  • colophony

    I’ve been noticing how people include a “colophon” section to their websites, eg:
    http://daringfireball.net/colophon/
    http://www.subtraction.com/ (see left)

    Here’s what the wikipedia entry says:                                                                                                                                                                         “A brief description, usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition
    A printer’s mark or logotype”
    In web usage it seems like a bibliography of tools. It’s an interesting view [...]

  • Insert ____ here

    I’m trying to resolve my relationship to a blog.  For the moment, this is how I’m thinking of it.
    The blog will focus on thoughts related to media.  Not links, I think I’m not gonna include that stuff now, the one’s I’m liking can be found on delicious: http://delicious.com/jeffgoldenson
    I’m also interested in overall issues related to [...]

  • Amazon Regionalism

    A little while back I was chasing some links and I landed on the amazon page of a book I like.  It turns out that I searched this book in Amazon not too long before, but it looked different — it had a lot fewer reviews.  Then I realized, I was on the Wabi Sabi [...]