40kBooks » "Algorithms Are Decision Systems" | November 2012
Book Business » "Inside the Ebook Test Kitchen" (Cover Story) | September 2012
Culture Digitally » "Conversations on Algorithms and Cultural Production" | September 2012
Future Tense - Australian Broadcasting Corporation » "The Physical Reality of Our Digital World" (on cloud computing) | July 2012
Future Tense - Australian Broadcasting Corporation » "The Algorithm" | March 2012
Spark - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation » "Algorithmic Culture" | October 2011
Washington Post » "Business Cards Thrive in a Digital Age" | October 2010
Social Media Hour » "Privacy, Transparency, and Facebook" | June 2010
Times Higher Education Supplement » "Giving It Away: A Textbook Argument" | November 2009
Los Angeles Times - Jacket Copy Blog » "Parsing the Kindle" | October 2008
Center for Humanities, Temple University | November 2012
Association for Cultural Studies Summer Institute, University of Ghent, Belgium | July 2011
American Cultures in the Digital Age Conference, Vanderbilt University | March 2011
Cooper Lecture Series, Swarthmore College | March 2010
Information Society Program, University of Illinois | February 2010
I’m guest posting this week over on the legal blog Concurring Opinions, which is holding a symposium on Georgetown law professor Julie E. Cohen’s great new book, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012). (FYI, it’s available to download for free under a Creative Commons license.) [...]
Most of you probably already know that the final broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show aired Wednesday, May 25, 2011. After 25 years of hosting the popular syndicated talk show, Oprah decided it was time to move on. Of course, what that also means is the end of Oprah’s Book Club, which some credit with [...]
There’s been speculation going on all week that Oprah Winfrey would choose Jonathan Franzen’s new novel, Freedom, as the inaugural selection for the final season of her talk show/book club. Well, it’s official: Freedom it is, as you can see from this email that just landed in my inbox: I’m not surprised at all by [...]
The philosopher Gilles Deleuze once mentioned an “eight year black hole” in his career, in which his publishing dwindled to almost nothing. Lately I’ve been feeling as though this blog has been sucked into the same black hole, since I haven’t posted anything in over a month. Sorry. Teaching and a host of other responsibilities [...]
Sorry about the unanticipated hiatus. The usual end of the semester crunch, well, crunched a couple of weeks ago. After that, I was working on some administrative stuff, the details of which probably would bore you. Suffice it to say that I’m back in blogging action, and happy to be here. My friend Colleen alerted [...]
I’d been planning on posting installment three of my “What the Publishing Industry Can Learn” series, on Netflix. I’ve decided to postpone it until later in the week, however, given the thoughtful responses over on Conversational Reading and The Reading Experience to installment one, on The Da Vinci Code. I argued that the publishing industry [...]
This is the second installment in a multi-part series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here. II. What can the publishing industry learn from Oprah? I can hear you groaning already. “Oprah? Really?” Yes, really. “Hasn’t that already [...]
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