About a month ago I was preparing a streaming video player for an event at work. During downtime, the player streams old content from Michigan Television (public TV at U of M that has now been closed). In a pleasant coincidence, I happened to see an interview with Thylias Moss, an English professor at U-M [...]
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Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks Mission for ‘Scientific Journalism’
WikiLeaks has been all over the world news headlines this past week after the Daily Beast reported that Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning released 260,000 classified documents to the controversial journalism network. Wired.com has followed up on story with reports about Manning’s conscience and WikiLeaks’ intention to provide him with legal help. In related news, [...]
Wagner’s Influence on Comics, Superheroes and ‘Indust-Reality’
On May 28, WBUR’s program “Here and Now” aired a segment about Wagner’s opera “The Ring” and its influence on comic books. (I’d embed it here, but they don’t let you download the MP3. You can listen at the link. Just scroll down the page when you get there.) Apparently many characters from graphic novels [...]
Printing Custom Books from Wikipedia
The most interesting news I’ve heard lately on the topic of custom publishing came last month from Mashable.com. As Jolie O’Dell reports, you can now create and print a custom book using content from Wikipedia. Just click “Create a book” in Wikipedia’s left sidebar (under “print/export”), and then click “Start book creator.” The video below [...]
Back to Business
It’s been a long, strange month since I last posted here, and now I have 37 drafts to catch up with. If you haven’t heard, I’m now a resident of the Republic of Saint Kitts and Nevis, located in the Eastern Caribbean. My girlfriend is attending vet school at Ross University, which means we’ll likely [...]
Annotations in Apple Preview
With all the fuss over the development of e-readers, I’ve been thinking about how Supraterranean content and my own writing might be read in the future. Apple has almost self-terminated with their overblown product announcements that seem to happen four times per year. Last decade my weariness over the iPod — which at first seemed [...]
