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K. // A linky diarist.
K. // A linky diarist.
The super-slow-motion pictures were taken by Richard Heeks, from Exeter. Equipped with a macro lens, Heeks waited for a windless day. And to make certain he wasn’t chasing wayward bubbles for hours, he found a secluded spot behind his home where even the slightest breeze could hardly be felt.
A shutter speed of 1/500th of a second made sure that he was able to freeze-frame the chain reaction as the touch of a finger popped the bubble, which appears to crumble away, leaving just soapy droplets hanging momentarily in the air.
Introducing: Submissions
There’s an interesting genre of blog that is more about the community than the author.
At some point you’ve probably seen Eat Sleep Draw, This is why you’re fat, or Cute Overload.
The author starts posting about a topic they care about, the readers start contributing, and before you know it, the author has become a curator.
Tumblr has always been uniquely suited for this type of blog. In fact, 6 of them have gone from Tumblr blog to book deal in the last year.
So today we’re very excited to release Submissions, a feature to streamline community-driven blogs. You can enable it from your blog’s Customize screen to let your readers submit posts via web or email.
I'm committed to Posterous and LiveJournal, but Tumblr is a pretty interesting place these days. Now everyone can set up their own LOLCats-like community blog without much fuss.
Books — specifically scholarly titles published by university presses and other professional publishers — retain two distinct comparative advantages over other forms of communication in the idea bazaar:
First, books remain the most effective technology for organizing and presenting sustained arguments at a relatively general level of discourse and in familiar rhetorical forms — narrative, thematic, philosophical, and polemical — thereby helping to enrich and unify otherwise disparate intellectual conversations.
Second, university presses specialize in publishing books containing hard ideas. Hard ideas — whether cliometrics, hermeneutics, deconstruction, or symbolic interactionism — when they are also good ideas, carry powerful residual value in their originality and authority.
Peter Dougherty defends scholarly books and the university press as crucial to a modern democracy.
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the manufacturing sector and a sudden, large increase in the cost of energy.
