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Banned Book Week
It’s the American Library Association’s annual Banned Book Week, which draws attention to books that have been challenged in libraries or classrooms over the last year. I’ve long had somewhat ambiguous feelings about Banned Book Week. On the one hand, … Continue reading
Link Ch. 4 – Thinking about Anne Frank
When my family went to Europe five years ago to visit our son who was studying in Germany, one of the most profound things we did was visit the Anne Frank house where she and her family hid from the … Continue reading
Books, Books, Books
This week I’m going to be talking about books in class. Here’s a link to all my recent posts about books! They include items on The Hunger Games, memoir fabrications, e-books, Amanda Hocking’s success at e-book publication, and the history of the … Continue reading
Questioning The Hunger Games
So the movie of The Hunger Games is out, and it’s been an enormous success. Here are some questions the movie might raise: That whole death lottery things seems familiar. Haven’t I read that kind of story before? Yes, in … Continue reading
Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
I’ve been so busy putting up links to go with the upcoming 4th edition to Mass Communication: Living in a Media World that I haven’t had time to question anything lately. So here we go: Does Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander pay … Continue reading
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Link Ch. 4 – Gutenberg’s Influence
Back in 1999, A&E’s Biography program profiled the top 100 influential people of the Second Millennium. They’re number 1 pick? Johanne Gutenberg. Can’t argue with that.
Link Ch. 3 & 4 – The Whole Book of Psalmes
One of the first exports from the Massachusetts Bay Colony back in the 1630s and ’40s was, surprise, media! The Cambridge Press brought over its first printing press in 1638, and its first bestseller was the Whole Book of Psalmes, … Continue reading
Day 2 on Kindle Fire and e-readers
Here’s some followup to Amazon’s big announcement yesterday of its Kindle Fire tablet and the new lower-priced Kindle e-ink e-readers. Daring Fireball – Apple blogger John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball, likes the new Kindles. In fact, my feelings and … Continue reading
Amazon announces new Kindle tablet and e-book readers
This morning Amazon announced its anticipated new tablet device, the Kindle Fire. Some people will point out that it is based on Google’s Android operating system, which is technically true. Other people will point out that it is the first … Continue reading
Go The F@$% To Sleep uses online buzz to sell parody bedtime book
Note: The links from this post all contain NSFW language. There has been a new parody of a children’s picture book being published this summer called GTFTS. It has all the sweet illustrations and baby animals you would expect in … Continue reading