Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Realistic Electronic Books

Veronica Liesaputra presenting her PhD work on user-interfaces for eBooks.

This is a Google TechTalk from Google's YouTube channel.

An electronic book is defined as a digital book that not only captures the affordances of a physical book, but also transcends the limitations of its paper counterpart. There is much debate as to whether the use of the book metaphor is appropriate for an electronic document. - Veronica Liesaputra

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Monday, July 30, 2007

Announcing the Open Library

Aaron Swartz has announced a demo of the Open Library Project. I really admire this idea and wish him and the team the very best of luck with it. The technology looks really good and the team includes designer Rebecca Malamud who's work I have admired before at MappaMundi.net

Visit the Open Library site

Sourced at Aaron Swartz

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Talk to the Sichuan Media and Journalism Programme

I gave a talk on Digital Publishing today for Oxford University

The group of journalists were from Sichuan provence in China and were undertaking a course in the department of continuing Education at Oxford.

Here is the lecture 

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Digital Da Vinci Codes: Thousands of Leonardo’s Papers Go Online

A small library in Leonardo Da Vinci’s hometown uploads a large portion of the Renaissance man’s notes into a searchable digital archive, free for all the world to pick through.

Sourced at Wired News

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Home and Away

Been away from posting up here for a bit. Two reasons:

We had a great holiday in Mallorca and I had a lot of catching up to do. Also I have been busy getting started on the rebuild of the school (within our university) home page. Loads more to do on the layouts across the site.

I thought I would share some of the CSS / XHTML issues that have come up. This has been a case of taking other folks work and building on it and making a few changes that seem important to me. 

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