
Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
307 postsNarnia, memory organizations and public diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy [https://www.demos.co.uk/publications/culturaldiplomacy] is a
report from the UK think tank Demos [https://www.
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QOTD: keeping Wittgenstein out
Off-topic, but as it is nearly Friday. Here is Frank Kermode reviewing
A.E.Housman’s letters in the LRB.
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QOTD: Facing and spacing
Facebook is everywhere. I liked this paragraph from the Guardian business pages:
> The success of Facebook has not gone
Joyce books
So, given that yesterday was Bloomsday, here is a quickly produced list of books about Joyce. It is a selection
Bloom in Dublin
[https://www.dublin.ie/gallery-view.aspx?imageId=86&catId=17]Today was
Bloomsday, the day on which James Joyce’
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QOTD: a medium of few words
It has been interesting seeing how quickly the ‘long tail’ has been adopted as a
phrase in a wide range
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Social media
I have just watched the video [video opens on a web page
[https://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/49]
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Day-Lewis stock
Andrew Motion
[https://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/Identities?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22motion,%20andrew$1952%22]
, current UK poet
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Old media got socialized
Rupert Murdoch’s short article in the current Forbes is being noted around the
place. It is a quick read
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Google authors
I just came across Google Authors
[https://www.google.com/talks/authors/index.html], a series of videos
[https://youtube.
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RLG DigiNews
One of the characteristics of the digital library phase has been the emergence
of several web-based journals and magazines focusing
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