http://netvouz.com/cantara?feed=rss cantara's bookmarks on Netvouz http://blogs.forbes.com/willwilkinson/2011/04/03/david-foster-wallaces-depression-neurodiversity-and-flourishing/ A foible of neurology that keeps us from meeting our own high standards consistently can put us in a terrible bind. Our options are to (a) try, fail, and struggle to avoid becoming utterly defeated; (b) fail to try and struggle with self-loathing; (c) try with every ounce of effort we can summon, succeed, and leave ourselves too exhausted to succeed again, or to want to try; (d) lower our standards and meet them, but struggle with the thought that we have cheated ourselves and the world of our best. cantara Sun, 29 May 2011 17:24:40 GMT http://unbound.co.uk/ What's different is that instead of waiting for them to publish their work, Unbound allows you to listen to their ideas for what they'd like to write before they even start. If you like their idea, you can pledge to support it. If we hit the target number of supporters, the author can go ahead and start writing (if the target isn't met you can either get your pledge refunded in full or switch your pledge to another Unbound project). cantara Tue, 31 May 2011 16:29:40 GMT http://chronicle.com/article/5-Myths-About-the-Information/127105/ Confusion about the nature of the so-called information age has led to a state of collective false consciousness. It's no one's fault but everyone's problem, because in trying to get our bearings in cyberspace, we often get things wrong, and the misconceptions spread so rapidly that they go unchallenged. Taken together, they constitute a font of proverbial nonwisdom. Five stand out... cantara Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:37:48 GMT http://www.edrants.com/against-essays-about-reviews-that-have-no-corresponding-set-of-virtues/ When Elizabeth Hardwick wrote of the “sweet, bland commendations” that plagued the book reviewing scene in 1959, she was protesting a few anti-intellectual developments at the time. cantara Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:53:19 GMT http://www.flashfictiononline.com/author_bruce_holland_rogers.html Just what is a short-short story? Or perhaps you prefer the term sudden fiction. Or flash fiction. Maybe in your view these three terms actually describe very different categories of writing, and you’re irritated that I’m treating them as the same thing. We’re barely four sentences into this first column, and at least a few readers are already disagreeing with my choice of terms. cantara Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:23:33 GMT http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/ All advice is autobiographical. It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past. This list is me talking to a previous version of myself... cantara Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:30:22 GMT http://booksprung.com/my-experience-with-the-espresso-book-machine It took about fifteen minutes to print the book, although it appears that under ideal circumstances it would take less than ten: a minute to find the book through the EBM’s control panel, another minute to download the file, one more to adjust the paper, and then about five minutes to print, cut and glue the thing. You can hear and see the book coming together page by page through the plexiglass, and you can smell the glue as it’s heated up and applied to the spine. It’s sort of like a Build-A-Bear for grownups and/or nerds. cantara Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:16:28 GMT http://mhpbooks.com/43006/done_supporting-students-in-london-and-more-reading-for-the-revolution/ With the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street approaching and the movement now extending to cities across the globe, we’ve posted several times recently about reading for revolutions, and no Moby reader can have missed our excitement that Melville House author David Graeber is fast becoming the star of the Occupy movement, and his anarchist history Debt: The First 5,000 Years required reading for current times. cantara Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:48:07 GMT http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2011/11/08/kobo-acquired-by-japanese-e-commerce-giant-rakuten-in-315-million-deal/ The $315M will help fuel the transformation of Indigo into “the world’s first cultural department store”. cantara Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:33:02 GMT http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201111b.htm#yu9 A new Review of Contemporary Fiction is out--Vol. XXI, #2-- Gilbert Sorrentino and Mulligan Stew. cantara Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:41:15 GMT