I read William Gibson’s Spook Country a couple of months ago. The first chapter (in audio here) features an artist demo’ing his locative art project. If you have read Spook Country you may get a kick out of the below video. Today the mobile experience folks from OCAD took over John street in Toronto for [...]
Over at the Penguin blog, Colin Brush shows off the new James Bond editions. The last time the Brits went the extra mile with Bond covers, they were devilishly hard to find in Canada. Here is to hoping these ones make it to Canadian shelves.
Borders is about to discover how expensive video bandwidth is. They have launched Borders TV (bookzone.tv) using the Brightcove service. Embedding isn’t allowed (boo). There are video tips for aspiring writers. Readers can upload reviews of their own (with no embedding? come on). Overall looks pretty good. The interface is good. The offering is decent. [...]