Just to change the subject a little bit, but not that much. At the end of 2008, the biggest TV Channel in Brazil produced a TV show based on the book Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. To promote the show, they created a website called Mil Casmurros (or One Thousand Casmurros). — Casmurro is [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘reading’
15 March 2009
Eye drops for your eyes
I’m getting very addicted in using readability to read almost everything online, for you to have an idea:
“Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter aroung what you’re reading.”
It’s really straightfoward. It’s a pitty that I don’t remember where I read about it for the first [...]
27 February 2009
Who’s is afraid of the thumb-culture?
eading this article about cell phone novels in Japan I remembered what I read somewhere the other day about how you can tell the age of a person by the way she or he presses the doorbell. If you press it with your index finger (as I do) you are probably over 30, if [...]
22 April 2008
Esses dias estou meio preguiçosa, atabalhoada com tantas coisas para fazer e pensar, então não vou falar muito…| I’m kind of lazy this days, with so many things to do and think, so I’m not going to talk much…
Campanha “Preferência Para Leitores” | Campaign “Preference for Readers”
Imprima seu adesivo e saia colando por aí. | [...]
13 February 2008
Eccentric Reads Entire Book | Excêntrico lê um livro inteiro
Maybe in 10 or 20 years this is going to be really eccentric… Or it already is?
Talvez em 10 ou 20 anos isso se torne realmente uma excentricidade… Ou já é? (Texto em inglês).
Via fade theory
16 January 2008
Cool
TurnipFish from Conor on Vimeo. (Unfortunatelly it’s impossible to embed vimeo videos on WordPress, so you will need to click at the link)
Watch for a while and see what happens…
Via if:book
25 December 2007
Reading
ILLUSTRATION: PHILIPPE PETIT-ROULET
Interesting article in the New Yorker Magazine about literacy, reading, reading habits and etc. The author’s (Caleb Crain) blog (Steamboats Are Ruining Everything) also worth a visit or a subscription.
4 December 2007
Antipodes
The reading revolution is already happening, but not here. In Japan Half of The Top Selling Books are Written in Mobile Phones.
Via booktwo
