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Technology & Culture Weekly Update 6/4/13
“Britain’s Pompeii”: Looking like the love child of an old sailing ship and a flying saucer, the Mary Rose Museum made its debut in Portsmouth last Friday. The unique facility houses an equally unique...
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Typography: Best Practices
Readability is—or certainly should be—a major consideration for web designers, and readability is predicated on good typography. Even though content editors aren’t designers per se, they are often...
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The Elusive J.J. Cale
J.J. Cale – Dec. 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013 Last week we lost a true American original. A rare talent who never sought fame (though he never shunned fortune), Cale was the pure manifestation of “laid...
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Can History Be True?
“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “What is history but a fable agreed upon?” This pithy maxim is generally credited to Napoleon Bonaparte, a man...
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David Byrne Predicts the End of the World
In a truly depresso screed in The Guardian, Renaissance man David Byrne laments the sad state of the music industry. If free or cheap digital streaming services are allowed to become our sole source of...
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Creative Nonfiction: The True Story of a Lone Literary Genre that Rescued...
Drieluik met allegorie op het kunstonderwijs, Willem Joseph Laquy, ca. 1770 (Rijksmuseum) In the orthodox liberal arts community, tenure-track professors are expected to teach courses while burnishing...
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Nothing But A Breeze
One day I’ll be old gray grandpa All the pretty girls will call me “sir,” Now, where they’re asking me how things are Soon they’ll ask me how things were Well, I don’t mind being an old gray grandpa If...
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Can the University Press Be Saved From Itself?
Painting by Rudolf Ernst via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve been following an online discussion about the relevance and sustainability of university presses (here and here) and whether or not there’s a future...
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The Copyeditor’s Code
Marcel Proust, original ms. “Du côté de chez Swann,” public domain The Copyediting blog recently posted a graphic based on editor Erin Brenner’s earlier article, “The Typographic Oath” (with a nod to...
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To Edit a Mockingbird
The controversy surrounding Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman is really heating up, with fresh commentary appearing daily. These essays are becoming increasingly esoteric, tacking away from the more...
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