Greg A. Brown

“If newspapers are windows onto the world, what are the consequences of shrinking that window to the size of an ipod screen?”
Ben Vershbow on The Institute for the Future of the Book’s blog

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Khoi Vinh, design director for NYTimes.com and author of the excellent blog Subtraction, talks about how control is one of the centrally distinguishing issues between print design and web/interactive design.

This sums up my feelings about today perfectly.

David Foster Wallace - author of two excellent non-fiction essay collections, a few different short story collections, and a little novel called Infinite Jest - is guest editor for The Best American Essays this year. His duties are to select the essays included in the collection and write an introduction to them all, and the latter was just placed online by the publisher. It’s an excellent read, covering everything from the purpose of essays to his role as a filter of them.

The New Yorker recently featured what was ostensibly a profile of Gerry Kasparov, former chess champion and current opposition leader in Russia. But it was written by David Remnick, the current editor-in-chief of the publication and long-time reporter on Russia since winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book-length account of the fall of Communism. The result is a thorough, engaging report on the current state of Russian politics aka. Vladimir Putin, one that goes well with his earlier profiles on Putin and others in Reporting, Remnick’s recent collection of New Yorker pieces.

From PostSecret

“Word Salad” is a term used to describe the confused, usually repetitious language symptomatic of some types of mental illness (like schizophrenia). Examples: BEWARE THE MARK or internet classic TIME CUBE.