Archive for August 2010

Publishers as Flashturbators    (2010.08.31)

The Web is old enough that history can repeat itself. What’s happening now with E-books parallels what happened with Web sites in the early Aughties

Orange crush    (2010.08.29)

Worst line-editing of the year    (2010.08.25)

It’s in the most overrated book of the year, The Imperfectionists

Comments on TTC LRV design competition    (2010.08.23)

TC is holding a “competition” to landscape the surrounds of the giant new streetcar house on the fringes of Leslieville. And here’s my submission. (Spoiler: There’s only one winner and the panel has to have the guts to say so)

‘Super Sad True Love’ coinage    (2010.08.22)

Neologisms in Super Sad True Love Story

Those who fail to learn the lessons of Natalia Ilyin are doomed to repeat them    (2010.08.22)

Design Is History is the new site that perpetuates the misapprehension that “design history” is a sequence of discrete jumps

Why does ‘Cognitive Surplus’ exist?    (2010.08.21)

What the Commentariat Publishing Lifecycle is, means, and does

Well played, Spacing    (2010.08.16)

The Spacers run an entire post about TTC signage. Whom don’t they mention?