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Good background on identity and its application to new media in chapter two.

Tom Gunning and others on travel films

Heidegger, Nietzche, and Marx seem to be the best psychological/philosophical sources for defining identity in the light of social media advances. I haven't worked through this whole article, but it seems like a good source for quotes on identity that can say whatever you want them to mean, you know?

A decline in references to "God," "Christian" and "universal" is consonant with the conventional view that the 19th century was a time of rising secularism and skepticism.

The world of blogging entering the business world. What kind of affect does this have on a business's credibility?

eBooks open new opportunities for finding and lending / borrowing books.

Good stats and arguments.

A service that helps to make eBooks more like print books (in terms of being able to borrow, lend, and share them)

This is really cool. Google's doing some great work.

I think I found the entire Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End online. It looks like it is all here. I wish I found this a week ago!

Social Networking for Aspiring Authors

From our very own library...

"When we call literary writers "political" today, we're usually talking about identity politics. If historians or critics fifty years from now were to read most of our contemporary literary fiction, they might well infer that our main societal problems were issues with our parents, bad relationships, and death. If they were looking for any indication that we were even dimly aware of the burgeoning global conflict between democracy and capitalism, or of the abyssal catastrophe our civilization was just beginning to spill over the brink of, they might need to turn to books that have that embarrassing little Saturn-and-spaceship sticker on the spine. That is, to science fiction.2"

"the full effect of the terror Burke stresses in the sublime hadn't taken shape for me until recently, watching over and over the first 30-second video clip of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. This is a frightful image in its murky greenness. And the scope of what this simple video loop suggests is nearly beyond the capacity to describe. It certainly follows several of Burke's qualifications of the sublime - the terror of the scope, the obscurity and privation of the bottom of the ocean, the suggestion of infinity - but it also raises even more questions in regard to what a particularly contemporary sublime might encompass. "

This post is reviewing a book, but includes a personal anecdote about finding the 'terror' aspect of the sublime in an internet video.

Do writers need paper?