some weekend reads and links of this week. i can happily blame the moon for the range of themes. this morning, my horoscope announced: "Valid during many months: This influence will bring idealistic, spiritual and philosophical issues to the fore in your life. You will become concerned with the meaning of the world, and you will find new ways of investigating it."
so here goes. new ways, meaning, and all. the photo above is from the frankfurt book fair, china pavillon. such beautiful books, from a country that restricts freedom of speech.
new words... foffof - the journal of asemic writing: diagrams, no question, time piece and other wordless multilingual writing
layouts.. after working on layouts for a new website this week, i found this article interesting: On getting your name out there , which includes a link to "How to Change the World"...
media... Gratuitous: How Sexism Threatens to Undermine the Internet - which includes some interesting questions and notes: "Is a personal blog a public or a private communication? Is it meant for mass consumption by thousands or millions of people? Not typically, and yet it can be read, theoretically, by billions. This blurring of the two types of media is so difficult to grasp that it’s produced its own near-ubiquitous straw man argument, which blogger Jason Kottke calls “the breakfast question.” It comes up whenever anyone writes about social media: “Why would I care what you ate for breakfast that morning?” Shirky’s rebuttal to this is succinct: “It’s simple. They’re not talking to you. We misread these seemingly inane posts because we’re so unused to seeing written material in public that isn’t intended for us."
on the note of gender: ...Literature’s Gender Divide: Numbers About Old-Fashioned, Boring, Outrageous Sexism. following the theme, interesting to visit this year's nobel prize gender divide.
politics... a statistic of a different kind: geography of a recession. connected to that, i came across a general country forecast from a Harvard prof in one of the major german news magazines: "USA: Eine Gesellschaft zerfällt / USA: A Society Crumbles". strangely, or maybe not so strangely, no english version available. here's a rough translation of a key paragraph: "Today, America represents the paradox of a rich country, which crumbles, because its inner values disintegrate. The American productivity ranks among the highest in the world. The national average income per head is with approximately 46,000 dollar - enough to live on it. The country is troubled nevertheless by an ugly moral crisis. .. And what happens in America will probably be repeated in other places."
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