A picture is no longer worth a thousand words. In the digital age, photographic evidence no longer means ‘proof’. The point that gets missed, however, is that it’s about time – photographs never consisted of proof of anything, have always been subject to doctoring and manipulation, and anyhow have weight far beyond their supposed “truth” or “fiction”.
A rare but deserved
welcome to a new weblog, Mobtown Blues, by longtime pal Kevin M. A great upgrade from his not-often-updated old journal site. Hopefully the more atomic weblog format will be more conducive to regular posting for our Baltimore correspondent.
Fresh texts:
Cory Doctorow has posted an eloquent homage to Peter Ackroyd’s wonderful book, London: the Biography, which I am currently reading. The only problem is that last week I also received Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, and so the two wonderful books are duking it out for my attention, which is limited to begin with.
As if I didn’t have enough to read already, what are you reading?
Must-read:
The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations holds regular hearings on a number of subjects, including of course Iraq and the post-war transition occurring there. Yesterday’s session was called Iraq Transition: Civil War or Civil Society?. Dr Juan Cole’s testimony is indispensible if you wish to understand what’s going on there now and what should be done about it. [Direct Link to a 33K PDF]
Issues in interactive design:
Type on the Web. Several top designers opine on various angles of this important issue. [via Jason Fried at SVN]
BTW, I hate it when articles on the web are undated. There is no way other than looking at the URL of this piece to know when this was published, and even that is not clear. I think it’s recent but there’s no way to know for sure.
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