ISBN Visualization
very cool visualization/exploratory interface for isbn-space
Large Language Publishing
"There are a hundred and one reasons to worry about Elsevier mining our scholarship to maximize its profits. I want to linger on what is, arguably, the most important: the potential effects on knowledge itself. At the core of these tools—including a predictable avalanche of as-yet-unannounced products—is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarize, and to recommend. The object of each verb is us—our scholarship and our behavior. What’s at stake is the kind of knowledge that the models surface, and whose knowledge."
Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1 – Platypus
"We also want to encourage our users to rethink the purposes and the dynamics of publishing altogether, in ways that might allow for the development of new, open, collective, equitable processes of creating and sharing knowledge that re-center agency over the ways that scholarly work develops and circulates with the scholars themselves"
Atomic Activity Books
computer-generated books ("a non-human reading")
Paper Sizes | A comprehensive resource listing all paper sizes, dimensions and formats.
fantastic resource for paper sizes (including photographs, books, envelopes, etc)
Never Be New Again - Valley of the D
'Slowly, slowly we reconnect the threads that connect me typing at my laptop in 2021 CE London backwards in time... to the dawn of the written word in the fertile crescent, when the gala priestesses of Inanna, who spoke only in the women’s tongue, sang in praise of her, “To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana” nearly four thousand years ago.'
Golan Levin on Twitter: "Dear friends: related to our earlier survey (https://t.co/CVSjN5kawk) — can you recommend any generative, massively-unique print projects? For example: @writtenimages; https://t.co/kJPA0V0Yvz; https://t.co/j5SwzuWGR2. We need t
thread of "generative, massively-unique print projects"