The fight for funding to superimpose the digital paradign onto print continues! Mitch Joel, of Montreal marketing agency Twist Image, unleashed this gem on his blog. This time the offenders are at Stanford, where they are mapping out communications between 18th century writers (presumably in a bid to convince Voltaire to join Twitter posthumously) using very pretty colours, delivering epic [...]
While at McGill recently, I walked by a poster still advertising a seminar long since passed entitled Reading and Writing: How Young French Women Interacted with Print in the Eighteenth Century. Now, the research and subject matter interest me greatly: as a media/communications junkie I can’t get enough of debates about the evolution in the [...]
I was glad to read in CNN that there are efforts underway to seek an official apology for the appalling treatment of Alan Turing by the country he served so well in the name of heteronormative bollocks. While I can’t sign myself (not living in the UK and all), I hope he gets the greater [...]
