• Trying out @prezi for my "slides" for tomorrow's talk on Social Reading at #ritread – #
  • @eileen53 Thnx! #
  • I just updated the #ritread page for my talk, Social Reading and the e-Book Ecosystem, with some links for background – #
  • @SeeMWhyK – Agreed! I'm really digging @prezi (http://prezi.com/), though I wish there was more font controls – like bold and italic. #
  • RT @ThisCJ via @timoreilly LimeWire owes $1.5T http://is.gd/cI8wa BP $69M. Music sharing 200,000x more damaging than catastrophic oil spill #
  • @ #ritread sitting next to @jparryhill & waiting for @MargaretAtwood to speak. #
  • President Destler is currenlty kicking of #ritread http://tweetphoto.com/26405731 #
  • @MargaretAtwood – At my age I'm not looking far down the road for an "eTroll" lurking to ruin my livelyhoo… http://tweetphoto.com/26406726 #
  • Students of the world rejoice! @ http://tweetphoto.com/26407686 #
  • Students of the world rejoice! @Margaretatwood admitted to using wikipedia for her history of writing. http://tweetphoto.com/26408167 #
  • #atwood #ritread – Would you keep your will in eform and only eform? – beware solar flares and technology upgrades! #
  • #atwood @ #ritread – Publishing is, in one way, putting text in a place where people can see it. #
  • #ritread – D.E.A.R. Time (drop everything and read) – What a great idea! & #atwood reminds us that kids sh… http://tweetphoto.com/26413277 #
  • #atwood I'm not against plot driven novels — without plots there probably wouldn't be novel! #ritread #
  • Good morning #RITRead — Johanna #Drucker is kicking things off with a discussion on the future of reading… #
  • #drucker – too often we talk about reading in terms of a mechanistic reader – what happens when we shift to performance #ritread #
  • #drucker – The design/context/cotext of a sign allows us to understand what register we will be reading it in before we read the content. #
  • #drucker – The design/context of a sign allows us to understand what register we will be reading it in before we read the content. #ritread #
  • #drucker – deconstructing a NYT article to ask if web reading is only different by degrees from other read… http://tweetphoto.com/26490405 #
  • great question – #drucker – what if we turn our attention from the graphic structure of "interface" to the relational aspect of it #RITRead #
  • #anderson – being in the magazine business, we are typically thinking about content, not the form/interface of it #ritread #
  • @Rwelzenb great question – short answer, I'm not sure… longer answers will be explored in my afternoon session. #ritread in reply to Rwelzenb #
  • RT @Rwelzenb: ""trust me, it's going to be huge." #canderson to The Economist about the internet #ritread quot; #
  • #canderson – With the magazine, we use paper for what its good for – being a canvas that you can see whole layouts at once. #ritread #
  • Interesting #canderson sees magazines as a print specific form. On the web, same content is something different, not a magazine. #ritread #
  • #canderson wired.com runs at the metabolic pace of a mouse. The mag runs at the pace of an elephant. Each is a dif. group. #ritread #
  • @amitorit This question of device specific app vs. web or platform content is at the heart of the future of reading/publishing… #
  • #CAnderson – Success of the kindle is not because its a superior reading device (it isn't) – its a superior content delivery exp. #ritread #
  • Chris Anderson – Our job in creating the Wired App: come up with a reason/experience that people would be willing to pay for. #ritread #
  • Chris Anderson – iPad is a "lean back" versus a Desktop "lean forward" experience. Our job was to entertain your finger. @ #ritread #
  • Interesting ? – who owns finger movements? Should an a app developer track finger movement data without your permission? #RITRead #
  • C. Anderson – On web (& print) the war between content & ads is about shared space. On iPad we've killed shared space. #ritread #
  • @Brinkmanship Agreed, finger tracking=heat/eye track. Tracking a finger movement seems more invasive & surveilling than links. #ritread in reply to Brinkmanship #
  • @activitystory Come to my session (Social Reading # eReader Ecosystem) this afternoon to discuss the reader2reader aspect. #ritread in reply to activitystory #
  • @RandomArchivist – Stylus, Finger, or Eye tracking via a webcam without informed permission seem to violate privacy. #ritread in reply to RandomArchivist #
  • This is cool easter egg – wired app changes photos in some stories based on orientation, encouraging rotating device. #ritread #
  • @Rwelzenb The mouse is an extension as well, though by degrees different… right now no one I know is tracking mouse movements… in reply to Rwelzenb #
  • If the web has the metabolism of a mouse & a mag the one of an elephant, do academics have the metabolism of a brontosaurus? :) #ritread #
  • joanna #drucker the magazine is curated conent in a delineated frame (lots of pens clicking @ #ritread as folks write that down) #
  • For the first frun of the Wired App they essentially built two magazines – one landscape & one portrait! Thats a LOT of work! #RITread #
  • Chris Anderson estimates that Conde Nast has (at least) a decade of print revenue to finance tablet/media pub experiments. #ritread #
  • I heart Joanna #Drucker metaphor of design and artistic inquiry of "little thought isotopes" #ritread #
  • We've hit the great divide: how to translate humanities based research into business action (i.e. why UI is engineering based). #ritread #
  • The underlying issue here is publishing is crashing into software development and ideologies about objects and models. #ritread #
  • MOOs & MUDs were also banned at RIT. The power of storytelling also goes back to @margaretatwood talk from last night. #ritread #
  • #drucker – Thinking about the codex as a space with its own rules of how we move and understand the content within…@Jessicarider #ritread #
  • #ritread be prepared, Chuck Bigalow, the co-creator of Lucida is about to join twitter & start tweeting the symposium… #
  • @Rwelzenb The connecting role of publishers will become increasingly critical as web x.0 continues to develop. #ritread in reply to Rwelzenb #
  • Glad #mBarton brought up audio books – audio is important for enhanced editions, interstitial reading/listening, & accessibility #ritread #
  • Harliquin has been playing with interactive character relation charts with their Nintendo DS books in Japan for a while. #ritread #
  • @ameliafont I definitely don't think the codex is broken. The bigger question is what stable forms will develop along side it. )ritread in reply to ameliafont #
  • @ameliafont I definitely don't think the codex is broken. The bigger question is what stable forms will develop along side it. #ritread #
  • A great aspect of the #RITRead symposium is the creative tension between the academic and the industry folks in the discussion session. #
  • Cool! Penguin licenses its eBook for electronic lending via libraries. #RITReader #
  • Cool! Penguin allows/works with libraries to make their eBooks able to be lent to patrons. #ritread (sorry for double tweets… I # fail) #
  • #RITRead – Discuss Social Reading @ 3.15 here in the Campus Center 1010/1015 #
  • @infomancy I thought Overdrive was part of it. Now that Kindle is an app platform, it will be interesting to see if 'Zon will allow it. in reply to infomancy #
  • @glojacobs Code is without a doubt language and not neutral. See Chris Kelty and Diana Foresythe's work on that. #RITRead in reply to glojacobs #
  • RT @amitorit: Ch. 3 of Lanham's The Economics of Attention "What's Next for Text" #lanham #ritread #
  • Richard Lanham : Writing has to be connected to reading! Separate the two is like specializing in only breathing out. #RITread #
  • RT @Brinkmanship: When I put words on the screen and they dance around, the whole idea of cultural authority evaporates – R. Lanham #ritread #
  • John Orwant of Google Books is about to speak at #ritread #
  • John Orwant – Google fundamental mission is to find answer people's questions. #RITRead #
  • You can make your own bookscanner on the cheap too… check out the DIY book scanner – http://www.diybookscanner.org/ #ritRead #
  • @amitorit That (sadly) makes me think of http://www.theonion.com/articles/klingon-speakers-now-outnumber-navajo-speakers,709/ #ritread in reply to amitorit #
  • #RITRead – if you haven't read it yet, check out http://robinsloan.com/mr-penumbra a magical realist story involving google book scan #
  • Did anyone at #ritread get a picture of the old/new trigram slide? If so, plu-eeze post it! #
  • Orwant : Using Google Books data and Google trends they found that authors began using the term WW1 in 1931! #RITread #
  • Orwant: when people think about eBooks, often the feeling is the technology is intruding on reading. #RITread #
  • @infomancy: When the doctrine of 1st sale goes away, what happens to the library as place fr book sharing? We better figure it out! #ritread #
  • Everyone should read Walter Benjamin's "Unpacking My Library" – There will be a huge market for low run, high quality editions. #ritread #
  • @infomancy But is it the Book or the Book-As-Object that we fetishize? #RITread in reply to infomancy #
  • Hmmm – the great possibility of constructive versus consumptive analysis of texts was brought up. #RITRead #
  • @infomancy The beauty of Benjamin's essay is how book-as-object have additional & important functions beyond & outside of reading. #RITRead in reply to infomancy #
  • Lanham: I have no evidence to support this theory that only increases my conviction in the idea #ritread #
  • Lanham: I have no evidence to support this theory… that only increases my conviction in the idea #ritread #
  • RT @JessicaSCole: #orwant – "We should add lard levels to Google Books." #lanham – "Fame at last! I never thought it would come!" #ritread #
  • @infomancy That's one reason to download pirated ebooks. The pirates often care more about the content than the publishers. #ritread in reply to infomancy #
  • @infomancy Plus, DRM PREVENTS you from correcting the mistakes in the book you bought (especially bad with Metadata) #ritread in reply to infomancy #
  • #lanham – Every mark in a printed text has hidden meanings waiting to be revealed. #RITread #
  • BTW… we need to have a #ritread tweetup at some point either today or tomorrow. Perhaps @ reception tonight? #
  • Behold the book wheel – Gutenberg era device for hyper scanning texts! #ritread http://tweetphoto.com/26690672 #
  • K. #Hayles project – trying to find a way to synergistically blend machine, hyper, and close reading. #ritRead #
  • Jane Friedman just said eBooks are bigger that Oprah! #ritread #
  • @Rwelzenb Amazom = Easy! (versus sexy … which is apple). #ritRead in reply to Rwelzenb #
  • RT @Rwelzenb: "2 days in a row we've heard that publishers see film & TV versions of books as flashy ads for the original. #ritread quot; #
  • It seems that these Open Road videos (esp the first) are as much about turning authors into characters as anything else… #ritread #
  • #ritRead – How are books brought to life or activated? Where discussion/dialog and connection over content come into play? #
  • RT @RITOPL: Open Road is *not* the only company using author videos to market books! #ritread – I didn't want to be the 1st to say this #
  • PLZ World! Don't use "Digital Native" – it's a really problematic term & flattens a LOT of stuff & is applied way too broadly! #RITRead #
  • For the 2nd day in a row @ #ritread we've hit "We have findings from an academic study… how do we apply that data to business or design." #
  • @activelearning When paperbacks were first introduced some feared they would flood the market with crapy/cheap (pulp) fiction. #RITRead in reply to activelearning #
  • My God! I'm five years away from not being able to read 12 pt type!!!! (Men @ 40, Women @ 45) #ritread #
  • quick poll #ritread – which is less annoying "E" or "I" … Or should we just use "digital"? #
  • #ritread interested in question of eBooks and design? Read this great thought piece that frames the conversation: #
  • David Barlow: Width is as important as height in #font design for screen. from #RITRead font panel #
  • @activelearning It's a little more complex that that. Some people argued that PB's were going to expand access to the great novels. in reply to activelearning #
  • David Berlow: Type design has been unprotected since Gutenburg. #ritRead #type #fonts #
  • My #RITRead session page (Social Reading and the eBook ecosystem) has been updated with new links and a video #
  • Calligraphy cow for those of your following #ritread – #
  • One of the great problems of moveable type was that it standardized letter forms and couldn't reproduce these "living" scripts – #ritread #
  • Kris #Holmes Scribing is an act of love. #ritread #
  • K. Holmes: Dialectic between mech. print and radical hand led to the split of text (print) and display (script) typography #RITread #
  • RT @xanthm: Ornate scribes : movable type as wired app : web text? #ritread #holmes <- Yes that's a good model. #
  • On grid design, be sure to see Jan Tschichold's canon of book proportions inscribed in the wood floor of the Carry Press #ritread #
  • It's interesting to see the parallel between Kris Holmes Eye:Hand dialectic with McLuhan's Ear:Eye and Innis' Oral:Literacy – #ritread #
  • RT @timoreilly: NYT on language acquisition in children whose parents spend too much time plugged in. http://nyti.ms/amEiH0 #RITRead #
  • Kris Holmes (& @MargaretAtwood) : in the years to come we'll see a rise in female calligraphers and letterers #RITread #
  • RT ++++ @amitorit: i want to listen to kris holmes all day! #holmes #ritread #
  • Dennis #Tedlock One reading mode in mayan culture is reading beans and other objects to divine the future or when to take action #ritread #
  • #Tedlock there are no gendered pronouns in the languages of indigenous people of the americas #ritread #
  • Sapir-Whorf in action – indigenous cultures w/o gender pronouns tend to have more equal power relations between men and women #RITRead #
  • Loving #Tedlock #039;s discussion of Ethnographic reading of signs inscribed by hand, inscribed in nature, and spoken by animals #ritread #
  • From the Mayan Popol Vuh – "Writing, carving is all the [the Gods] work at every day" () #Tedlock #RITRead #
  • Like other scribal cultures, the Mayan's had the notion of writing "loudly". I want to write loudly! #Tedlock #RITRead #
  • @Brinkmanship: Beyond colonial issues "Digital Natives" suggest that all ppl grow w/ same tech & interact w/ it in same way #ritread in reply to Brinkmanship #
  • @laerm That's the other part of Sapir-Worf that people leave out, that the cultural structures and practice also influence language in reply to laerm #
  • Second mention of C. S. Peirce at #RITread – #Tedlock showed how Mayan logograms include Iconic Sinisgns and Iconic Legisigns #
  • @Brinkmanship #ritread You might be onto something with "'netualized citizens" in reply to Brinkmanship #
  • @laerm – S/W (and language/culture) is always already a two way street. Naive theories only apply them in a single direction. in reply to laerm #
  • @amitorit #ritread – but portmanteaus & neologisms are so fun! (and sometimes useful) #
  • So much interpretive play was part of the writing/reading of mayan scripts – our alphabet calls out for ornament in comparison. #ritread #
  • RT @blaine: 4 those wanting 2 do hand-written text, but wanting 2 maintain searchability / accessibility, try #
  • #Tedlock – Contrary to Mel Gibson, there was no Mayan Empire. It was closer to city-states like Renaissance Italy. #ritread #
  • Denis #Pelli is kicking things off by trying to find a middle ground between pure typographic aesthetics and scientific certainty #RITread #
  • #Pelli — When you eye makes four micro eye movements per second, and during those movements, you are essentially blind! Wow! #RITRead #
  • Ok, so far at #RITRead I've learned that my visual span is only five characters and that I have only five years left to enjoy 12pt type. #
  • #pelli – What we do in my line of work [visual science] is break things. By breaking we learn about how things work. #ritRead #
  • #Pelli argues that some of Picasso's work might be attempts to paint objects that appear "correct" only if viewed in the periphery #RITRead #
  • RT @Rwelzenb: in short: peripheral vision is useless for reading #ritread #pelli #
  • RT @Rwelzenb: in short: peripheral vision is useless for reading. (Me: But it is good for looking at Cubist art and predators) #ritread #
  • @tomcoates Great to hear it's good. I can't wait to torrent it… err I mean watch it on BBC America in a few weeks… #drwho in reply to tomcoates #
  • #Pelli #039;s ultimate argument: Crowding limits the visual field, and the visual field limits the overall rate of reading. #RITRead #
  • Building off #Pelli #039;s argument, do any eReaders uses rapid serial visual presentation? (more on RSVP here #ritread #
  • Robert #Bringhurst – Book is a verbal fabric, a forest of words large enough to get lost in, & a bounded ecosystem of language. #RITRead #
  • @infomancy Yes… re: RSVP in reply to infomancy #
  • Bringhurst: In storytelling cultures, the storyteller does not memorize stories, they learn how stories are made. #RITRead #
  • Bringhurst: In Oral Cultures people read with their ears! #RITRead #
  • #Bringhurst In the wider sense of the wrd reading means paying attention 2 wht goes on in frnt of yr & finding the meaning in it. #RITRead #
  • Enjoy this talk? You need to read #Bringhurst #039;s "The Solid Form of Language" (available in the Cary) #RITRead #
  • #Bringhurst Physical empathy with every letter encountered, a visceral link between reading & writing, was shattered by printing. #RITRead #
  • @Rwelzenb I believe that videos of all of the main speakers will be available (including #bringhurst #ritread in reply to Rwelzenb #
  • Oops… here's a correct link to #bringurst #039;s "The solid form of language" (available in the Cary) #ritRead – #
  • #Bringhurst GERARD TER BORCH, Portrait of a Man Reading a Koran; 1675 #ritread #
  • Many worried that Paperbacks were going to destroy literacy with a flood of cheap lurid crappy writing (the TV arguement) #RITread #
  • #RITRead Meditiation on the materiality of a book, what it is content, "Unpacking my Library" (a pdf) #
  • RT @Rwelzenb: @mattBernius Is it "Man reading a courant?" #ritread <- As far as we can tell (and we thought it was "the Koran") #
  • RT @Brinkmanship: The real book isn't the bk nor the scan, its more permanent thn letters, more ephemeral thn words, more sublime thn data #
  • On the transparency of Typography, everyone needs to read Beatrice Warde's short essay "The Crystal Goblet" #RITRead #
  • #Vignelli – We are at the most exciting time since Gutenburg and it has to come at the end of my life! #RITRead #
  • #RITRead El Lissitzky:The printed sheet overcomes space & time. The printed sheet, the infinity of the book, has to be overcome. via Bigelow #
  • The (brief) full text of El Lissitzy's Electro-Library that Chuck #Bigelow referenced – http://yfrog.com/9eftvp #
  • The (brief) full text of El Lissitzy's Electro-Library that Chuck #Bigelow referenced – http://yfrog.com/9eftvp #RITRead #
  • "Empty space in a newspaper is costly, empty space on a screen is free" ~ Chuck Bigalow #RITRead #
  • Mossimo #Vignelli – White space is the greatest luxury. #RITRead #
  • Mossimo #Vignelli considers Zaph's Optima to be the finest humanist italic ever cut – #RITRead #Type #
  • "The best way to teach typography is to show the ugliness caused by a lack of it!" ~ Mossimo #Vignelli @ #RITRead #type #typograhy #
  • "If you have to write 'dog', your type doesn't have to bark." – Massimo #Vignelli #RITread #
  • Bigelow: Where as Gutenburg had 1 font, we now have over 100K digital fonts. Remington: And our students want to try them all. #RITRead #
  • Frank Cost is closing the Future of Reading conference (#RITRead) with a discussion of the Book as the Child of the Internet. #
  • For his two classes, in which Frank Cost's students published their own POD books, 80% of the students wanted to create more books. #RITRead #
  • Frank Cost talks about creating personal books: from month long projects in the 80's and to books he's published in a day today. #ritread #
  • The google books page for Frank Cost's "Facing Myself" – #RitRead #
  • Frank Cost: Thinking about Print On Demand books as a "Sumi" style production opens up new creative possibilities. #RITRead #
  • Frank Cost: Often what we edit out is what becomes the most important (referncing Barthe's "Punctum"). #RITRead #
  • RT @xanthm: We can document small things now bc book prodution is so easy. Nice. #ritread #cost #
  • Franl Cost: "Professors McLuhan and Madonna are always right!" #
  • Nicholas Negroponte: The future is bits, not atoms. Frank Cost: But we eat atoms, we can' survive on bits. #RITRead #

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