The link below is to an article that reports on the findings of an interesting study regarding reading and empathy for others.
For more visit:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/oct/08/literary-fiction-improves-empathy-study
Daily Archives: 10 October 2013
Article: Publishing and the Digital Revolution
The link below is to an article that looks at the place of publishing in the midst of the digital revolution.
For more visit:
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115010/publishing-industry-thriving
The DRM dilemma facing the open web
Most of us are pretty used to certain freedoms granted by the open web. Just as you can send a link for any webpage or service to a friend, you can also save an image from a page, examine its code or copy some text to quote in something you’re writing. That way of doing things may be set to change.
The blogs of large corporations are rarely worth reading unless you’re a journalist or a fan of marketing content, but on Wednesday Telefonica(s tef)’s blog carried an interesting article by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the web and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body that formalizes new web standards.
The piece sums up all the different meanings of the word “open” in the context of the web, data, platforms and so on. It’s a pretty good primer on this stuff, so much of which…
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Surgery
I will soon be having a break from Blogging as I am scheduled to undergo surgery in the near future, so early November is shaping as a lean period for my various Blogs. However, it is quite possible that there will be a large number of posts once I am able to sit comfortably in front of my computer again. I expect there will be no posts for possibly the first week of November. Up until November there will be short periods of no posts, with the various preparations required previous to surgery.
At the BookShelf 