Posts Tagged ‘reading’
Destined for Ink? A Call to Action: Let’s Think Beyond the Book
Humans have for millennia created tools that augment and improve our lives. From the weapons of the Bronze Age to bartering beads and paper currency, each tool changes how we interact with our world. As these tools become commonplace, they are harder to deconstruct, but it is important to remember that we made them; we designed them to help us know more, see more, achieve more. From virtual libraries to virtual reality, from the codex to the digital book, the tools we have created to transmit information make it possible for more people to make more astounding discoveries. But technologist …
Is the Mobile App the New Writer’s Blog?
From WordPress to Tumblr, Blogger to Squarespace, writers are using blogs to engage their readers. Aryn Kyle shares anecdotes from her recent West Coast book tour at www.arynkyle.tumblr.com, while on Blogspot, Dedra Johnson meditates about the challenge of immersing herself in a character while dealing with life’s day-to-day details. If part of the literary project is to build connections and invite people in, the willing writer might want to experiment with an emerging form of digital storytelling — the cross-platform mobile app. Browser bookmarking site Read it Later examined its users’ screen-based reading habits and found that …of …
