http://www.datachondria.com/2009/touchscreen-touchscreen-on-the-wall/ Better Living Through Data Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:38:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.datachondria.com/2009/touchscreen-touchscreen-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Datachondria » Blog Archive » eReading and the Auxiliary Imagination Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:38:40 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=93#comment-40 [...] have conspired to bring me there. I’m not at a point in my life where I still strongly feel the need to display my books around me as an expression of my refinement and taste, and in any event it’s rare that a book changes me in the way of a Slouching Towards [...] [...] have conspired to bring me there. I’m not at a point in my life where I still strongly feel the need to display my books around me as an expression of my refinement and taste, and in any event it’s rare that a book changes me in the way of a Slouching Towards [...]

]]> http://www.datachondria.com/2009/touchscreen-touchscreen-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Datachondria » Blog Archive » Don’t Judge a Cover By its Book Sat, 16 May 2009 17:05:45 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=93#comment-9 [...] But that doesn’t mean that the ancillary materials around these works no longer have a place. Indeed, it may augment the importance of those materials. On the one hand, having communally recognized album art will help me show off my record collection when friends are over and browsing my collection via my gorgeous (and at this point theoretical) touchwall interface. [...] [...] But that doesn’t mean that the ancillary materials around these works no longer have a place. Indeed, it may augment the importance of those materials. On the one hand, having communally recognized album art will help me show off my record collection when friends are over and browsing my collection via my gorgeous (and at this point theoretical) touchwall interface. [...]

]]> http://www.datachondria.com/2009/touchscreen-touchscreen-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Datachondria » Blog Archive » Tell Me Where to Read, Not What to Read: Or, What to do When Your Cultural Objects are No Longer Objects Tue, 05 May 2009 00:50:25 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=93#comment-8 [...] ideas, but also become receptacles of our memories, of the images we hold of ourselves, and of the images that we want to project of ourselves to others. The same, obviously, is true of music, of art, of all cultural pursuits in which we engage — [...] [...] ideas, but also become receptacles of our memories, of the images we hold of ourselves, and of the images that we want to project of ourselves to others. The same, obviously, is true of music, of art, of all cultural pursuits in which we engage — [...]

]]> http://www.datachondria.com/2009/touchscreen-touchscreen-on-the-wall/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Democracy meets party time: Apple releases iTunes 8.1 « Datachondria Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:21:45 +0000 http://www.datachondria.com/?p=93#comment-6 [...] of browsing and passing casual judgment on every party’s hosts. So far we’ve had only a bright idea or two about what might replace shelves full of CDs or books in this very strange but important [...] [...] of browsing and passing casual judgment on every party’s hosts. So far we’ve had only a bright idea or two about what might replace shelves full of CDs or books in this very strange but important [...]

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