what is past, or passing, or to come

It sounds like this is going to be a massive hit, and I have ordered my copy (and what a great title for a first novel). I am enjoying Sleepers Almanac no. 5 as we speak.

In other news, a journal of epistemology has published a special issue on Wikipedia, with an article by an ex-founder, Larry Sanger, 'The Fate of Expertise After Wikipedia'. Link via if:book, the blog at the Institute for the Future of the Book.

It looks as though the ABC Radio National Book Show has a listeners' blog of sorts - not sure how long this project, LetterVox, will run, but it includes audio and video as well as text. Publishing can be done through the ABC's online publishing space, Pool. Clever.

This is not really good news for cataloguers, I suppose, but it's still laudable activity on the part of said flash crowd. There are worse things they could do than catalogue a bird or two.

And here's my obligatory sample from that priceless news filter that does magnificent service also as Maud Newton's blog. Don't laugh at my jokes too much, people will say we're in love...