Ben O’Steen shares his fascination with what happens to information and content as we move it from the digital world to the physical and back again.
Naturally, this derailed my entire morning.
Running Cory Doctorow’s Makers through Tom Taylor’s Microprinter:
Using the microprinter and the Guardian’s data on MP expenses to print out all the MP’s receipts, with QRCodes linking back to the original data:
Printing information out like this seems to be an interesting way to visualise and perhaps understand any type of activity stream.
I won’t reproduce the whole thing here; instead, I urge you to read it yourself.
Finally, Ben announced TextCamp.
A day spent learning and playing with (electronic) texts, manuscript images, letters of correspondence, memoirs, and paper goods.
It’s supposed to be in September, in the UK. I wonder if I’d be able to make it…
(Via Infovore.)