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Four short links: 19 September 2012

Four short links: 19 September 2012

Scholar boarding, Javascript macros, Nerd Raptures, Preserved Conversations

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | September 19, 2012
  1. /r/Scholar — Reddit board for tracking down research articles of interest.
  2. sweet.js (GitHub) — macros for Javascript. (via Brendan Eich)
  3. The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — this is the HTML version of the book, which is also available for purchase, and is released under a CC-A-NC-ND license.
  4. Conversations Network Closes Down — The remaining assets of the Conversations Network (cash and intellectual property) will be acquired by the Internet Archive, another U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All existing programs will be moved to the Internet Archive where the world will be able to continue to listen to them for free. (via Jon Udell)
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Four short links: 18 September 2012

Four short links: 18 September 2012

Rapture of the Nerds, Amazon Maps API, 3D Printer Queues, and the New Aesthetic

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | September 18, 2012
  1. The Rapture of the Nerds (Charlie Stoss, Cory Doctorow) — available for download and purchase under a CC-A-NC-ND license.
  2. Amazon Maps API — if there is an API layer of general use to developers, Amazon will build it. They want to be the infrastructure for the web. Tim identified “the Internet Operating System”, and Amazon figured out how to put a pricetag on every syscall.
  3. Hoektronics — open source 3d printer queue management. (via Daniel Suarez)
  4. The Machine Gaze (Will Wiles) — Converging, leapfrogging technologies evoke new emotional responses within us, responses that do not yet have names. (via James Bridle)
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Short Fiction Renaissance Enabled by Digital

by Peter Bennett | @hablantia | August 20, 2008

Gary Gibson makes a good observation about the forms of fiction enabled by e-readers. From The Digitalist: There's a potentially very positive aspect to ebooks in relation to short fiction I hadn't previously considered. Publishers rarely produce collections of short fiction in meaningful numbers any more because they long ago ceased to be cost-effective; much of my early reading…

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Open Question: Will Genre Fiction Die Off With Traditional Readers?

by Mac Slocum | @macslocum | +Mac Slocum | July 8, 2008

Is genre fiction on a downhill slide, or, will today's teen eventually gravitate toward long-form storytelling? Please share your thoughts.

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