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Florida DOE omits Patricia Polacco from holiday reading list
Missing from the state’s list of Recommended Holiday Reading: Patricia Polacco, whose The Trees of the Dancing Goats and Christmas Tapestry are her typical tear-jerking, wonderfully-illustrated fare. The Trees of the Dancing Goats is also available through the Florida Braille and Talking Books Libraries. I’m sure this is unrelated to the controversy over Polacco’s “disinvitation” […]
Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
Loss of the Weekly World News
It’s true, dear readers. The Weekly World News is ceasing publication at the end of August. (Hat tip.) There goes the end of the great litany of newspaper readership analyses (which varies by country): The Washington Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they […]
Reading… but not what you think
Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I’m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don’t get the Harry Potter until I’m done. In other news, Jeff Solochek reports correctly that I’m now the representative of the Florida Coalition for […]
Tufte-d morning
I was lazy this morning and exercised by jogging in place on an exercise mat, browsing/read through Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence. While Tufte’s idea of sparklines (in chapter 2) is appealing, I am not nearly as impressed by this book as by his other volumes, espcially Visual Explanations. I am not yet sure why. Then […]