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So, how many volumes do you need to read on your e-reader to break even? With respect to fossil fuels, water use, and mineral consumption, the impact of one e-reader payback equals roughly 40 to 50 books. When it comes to global warming, though, it's 100 books; with human health consequences, it's somewhere in between. All in all, the most ecologically virtuous way to read a book starts by walking to your local library. ♣

Apparently, if we're crunched for time, we only have to create an epub version of our book.

Baratunde Thurston imagines how the civil rights leader would have expressed himself in 140 characters. It is interesting to see that MLK was a reader and follower of Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". There is civil disobedience going on all across the web. Was Thoreau also a precursor for an influx of electronic civil opposition?

Good stats and arguments.

A really interesting article about a NYT feature that allowed readers to come up with plans to balance the budget. The Wisdom of Crowds concept came through as the crowd overwhelmingly came up with balanced non-partisan plans. 

Here's the actual NYT article for anyone who's interested http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/weekinreview/14leonhardt.html?ref=davidleonhardt

Site that brings readers, writers, and editors together to collaborate.

I just got called to speak in church on Sunday about "my family's good name." I found this talk, but any other ideas would be helpful---I just don't know what to do with it!

Helaman 5:6 http://lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/what-have-you-done-with-my-name?lang=eng&query=mervyn+arnold+name

For Tunglið, how you publish is as important as what you publish. Named after the Icelandic word for the moon, the tiny publisher prints its books in batches of 69 on the night of a full moon. So far, so weird. But keen readers must also buy their books that same night, as the publisher burns all unsold copies. Weirder still. Why? While most books can survive centuries or even millennia, Tunglið - as its two employees tell me - "uses all the energy of publishing to fully charge a few hours instead of spreading it out over centuries … For one glorious evening, the book and its author are fully alive. And then, the morning after, everyone can get on with their lives."

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret germ to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience. To know any one thing one must not only know something of a great many others, but also, as Matthew Arnold long since pointed out, a great deal more of one's immediate subject than any partial presentation of it visibly includes

Stephen Fry on English, and Pedantry

The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)

Thoreau's mode in Walden translating over to Civil Disobedience

Koh Choon Hwee

This is another link from the same man's site, but this link is for the blog he did on one of James Joyce's stories. He actually invites his readers to participate in reading Irish literature for the week and then blog about it. He says that he would then make a master copy of all the blogs. Just thought it was interesting.

So I was searching for some blogs about James Joyce and I came across this man's blog, Mel. Talk about being a prolific reader and writer. He reads short stories all the time and posts about each one. I think it is interesting that he started his blog not really think many would read it and now he has almost 500 followers.