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Newport is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,  south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Newport recorded a population of 13,658 at the 2021 census.

Newport is approximately 10 minutes by car from Melbourne via the West Gate Freeway or a 20-minute train journey from Flinders Street.

History

The Yalukit-willam people of the Boon-wurrung Country are the traditional owners of land known as Newport, with a well researched connection to the area beyond 30,000 years. First contact came with European sealers (1803–1834) and followed a pattern of violence typical across Australia at the time. In 1835 the arrival of John Batman saw a treaty established and a period of relative peace. However, despite this the plight of the Australian Aborigines was dire, as they were increasingly denied ownership and access to their lands.

European settlement began in Newport at what was then called Williamstown Junction around 1862, with a Telegraph Office and Post Office by 1869. It was renamed Newport in 1881. The Newport Railway Workshops played a key role in the development of the suburb, formerly the main workshops of the Victorian Railways. The workshops are just south of the Newport railway station. The Newport Power Station is another feature of the suburb, the chimney of which remains one of the tallest towers in Melbourne at 183 metres. The original coal-fired generators were replaced in 1981 with a single 500MW gas-fired generator and operates during peak-load periods.

Today

Newport is home to people of a diverse mix of ethnic, social and economic backgrounds. It has a Mosque, a Baptist church, Catholic schools, tattoo parlours, Asian and Italian restaurants, sports clubs, boutique wine bars and an RSL. It has 12 playgrounds within just 5 km2. The Substation community arts centre provides a hub for local live music performances, art exhibitions, community events and the monthly artists market. The Newport Folk Festival is held each year in June. Major natural features of the suburb include the Newport Lakes, Greenwich Bay and the Sandy Point Conservation area. Fishing, bike riding, skateboarding, kayaking and boating are popular local activities.

Recreation

Newport Lakes Park is a bushland oasis created from a former bluestone quarry. The park is 33 hectares in size and has been extensively revegetated using native plants, with over 200 species of plants and 85 species of birds recorded here. The park has a picnic area, toilets, drinking taps and free electric barbecues. Dogs may be exercised in the Pavey's Park and Picnic Area, the north west area of the park and in the Arboretum.

Paisley Park is the major sporting park in Hobsons Bay and includes a gymnasium & swimming pool, golf course, premier league soccer facility, bowling club, badminton centre, miniature railway and lacrosse fields. It is located on the corner of Mason Street and Mills Street, Newport, and shares a boundary with Altona North.

Greenwich Reserve and The Strand are Newport's connection to the Bay. Mansions and modest apartments compete for uninterrupted views of the Melbourne CBD along The Strand, while Greenwich Reserve offers access to the Yarra River and Port Phillip Bay via The Warmies Boat Ramp and includes a large picnic area, playground, baseball field and the Sandy Point Conservation Area. A sealed cycle track runs along the river front, which is also a popular fishing spot.

Bryan Martyn Oval is home to the Newport Digman Cricket Club, Newport Power junior football and netball club and includes the recently completed Bryan Martyn Pavilion. A children's playground is provided. It is located on Derwent Street, Newport.

Newport Park includes an athletics facility featuring an eight lane 400m running track, the Graham Morrish Pavilion with toilets, canteen and first aid rooms and the Newport Skate Park, which is the largest in Hobsons Bay and hosts regular 'skate clinics'. A children's playground is provided. It is located on the corner of The Strand and Douglas Parade, Newport.

Loft Reserve has 2 full size ovals, practice nets and a playground. It is located on Grieves Street, Newport.

Newport Bowls Club, located in Market Street, hosts both serious competition and barefoot bowling, clubhouse and bar.

Digman Reserve is home to the Newport Digman Cricket Club and Gellibrand Cricket Club and is located on Hobson Street, Newport.

The Newport Rams Baseball Club is based at the KC White Reserve in North Williamstown.

Scouts Australia run the 2nd Newport Scout group from a historic wooden hall (1938) next door to the Newport RSL on Market Street, Newport.

Transport

Train
Newport is home to one train station, Newport station, which is serviced by trains on the Werribee and Williamstown railway lines.

Bus
 Route 432: Newport to Yarraville (via Altona Gate Shopping Centre)
 Route 471: Williamstown to Sunshine Station (via Newport and Altona Gate Shopping Centre)
 Route 472: Williamstown to Moonee Ponds (via Footscray)
 Route 944: City to Point Cook (Night Bus Service)

Other
 The Bay Trail, a shared cycle track runs along the Yarra River from the West Gate Bridge through Newport to Williamstown, Altona Beach and on to Altona Meadows in the west.
 The Punt, a foot ferry across the Yarra for pedestrians and bicycles, operates between Scienceworks and Port Melbourne, travelling under the West Gate Bridge.
 Federation Trail, a 25 km dedicated cycle track, runs from Brooklyn to Werribee and is 5 km north of Newport connected by the Bay Trail and the partially complete extension from Brooklyn to Melbourne Rd.

Schools

Hobsons Bay Council operates two kindergartens in Newport, Home Road Kindergarten (44 Home Road) and Newport Gardens Early Years Centre http://ngeyc.org.au/ (Corner of Rosshire Road and Maddox Road Newport)

Schools include Newport Gardens Primary School (formerly Hobsons Bay), Newport Lakes Primary School,  Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School and Bayside Secondary College.

Victoria University maintains a campus in Newport, which focuses on automotive, metal fabrication, building and electrical trades. The Newport campus hosts the Centre for Curriculum Innovation and Development.

The Newport Maternal and Child Health Centre is located within the Newport Early Years Centre (Corner of Rosshire and Maddox Roads, Newport)

Culture

The Substation

Formerly known as The Hobsons Bay Community Arts Centre, The Substation is a contemporary, community-based arts center located in the historic Newport substation building, adjacent to the Newport Railway Station on Market Street. Originally constructed in 1915 to convert electricity for the Victorian Railways, this massive neo-classical brick building had fallen into disrepair by the 1960s. Local residents embarked on the enormous task of restoring the building and converting it into a community arts facility and after 12 years of work it officially opened its doors to the public in 2008.

Regular events include the annual Substation Contemporary Art Prize, the Carpark Fiesta, the monthly Artists' Market, the Koori Night Market, children's theater, Westside Circus, dance classes, life-drawing, public forums, an art exhibition program across 5 gallery spaces and a diverse range of performance including cabaret, comedy, jazz and contemporary music.

Newport Folk Festival

The Newport Folk Festival is an annual music event held over 3 days in July organised by the Newport Fiddle and Folk Club.

Australian Islamic Centre

The Australian Islamic Centre is an initiative by the Newport Islamic Society and is located in Newport. It was designed by world-renowned architect Glenn Murcutt and opened in 2016.

See also
 City of Williamstown – Newport was previously within this former local government area.

References

External links
 Hobsons Bay Community Online Forum
 Friends of Newport Lakes (FONL)
 Victoria University Newport campus map
 Newport Folk and Fiddle Club
 The Substation, Newport
 TravelSmart, for Hobsons Bay
 Protect Newport
 Newport Digman Cricket Club

Suburbs of Melbourne
Suburbs of the City of Hobsons Bay


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Are liberals really just as deluded about GW as conservatives?
This article has been making the rounds lately: Six Myths About Climate Change that Liberals Rarely Question.
The thrust of this argument seems to be that since liberals try to sell global warming solutions as not terribly painful, then liberals themselves have no clue how tough global warming will be to stop. It's as if the article's author, Eric Lindberg, thinks that if only conservatives were told that they would not only have to give up their SUVs, but also give up their guns and submit their daughters to forced abortions, they'd suddenly wake up and support reforms that would help slow global warming.
I think most liberals who are paying attention understand that global warming is a super-tough problem, and that it will require serious changes to be made. But they also understand that the changes have to be made by everyone, together. If half the planet gets serious about fighting global warming, the other half will have no problem negating those efforts.
Now we may be getting to the heart of Lindeman's argument. Here he's essentially claiming that there is no technological solution to global warming. The human way of life is what is causing it, and creating more solar panels and wind farms will only stoke demand. The very act of building these things consumes energy, and the cycle will be impossible to escape.
I suppose if this argument is true then Lindeman does have a point… a point that, what, we need to undergo mass sterilization to reduce human population? I would submit that the jury is still out on whether there is a technological solution, that human innovation has done incredible things in the past 100 years and voluntarily returning the world to the stone age is infinitely less plausible than using our amazing talents to find another way out of this dilemma. Of course the ultimate solution will probably require us to change, but these changes might take the form of using more public transportation, building denser housing, and requiring more stringent efficiency standards for all of our favorite vehicles and appliances, not tearing down all the factories.
This is pretty much a repeat of Myth #3. See above.
This is a repeat of all of the above, with the perverse assertion that solving global warming is easy since all we need to do is stop burning fossil fuels. Also, preventing world hunger is a simple matter of everyone eating enough.
Ironically, if you believe the rest of Lindeman's argument, then Myth #6 is almost certainly true. This myth seems to contradict the others. If you think we don't have to change our lifestyles to solve global warming, then you would probably also think there is something you can do to solve global warming, right?
No, it seems to me that most liberals understand at a much more visceral level than Lindeman how difficult global warming is to solve—and how difficult the remedies are to sell. I don't claim to have a simple solution to the problem, but I certainly believe that the solution will come from the folks who at least acknowledge the existence of a problem and are willing to consider making changes in order to solve it.
One Response to Are liberals really just as deluded about GW as conservatives?
Thanks for this. I've been looking for a thoughtful retort to Lindberg's piece. By the way, you might want to correct the spelling of his last name in most of your references to him above, where you incorrectly call him "Lindeman".


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package io.fabric8.jolokia.facade.facades;

import io.fabric8.api.Container;
import io.fabric8.api.HasId;
import io.fabric8.api.Profile;
import io.fabric8.jolokia.facade.utils.Helpers;
import org.jolokia.client.J4pClient;
import org.jolokia.client.exception.J4pException;
import org.jolokia.client.request.J4pExecRequest;
import org.jolokia.client.request.J4pExecResponse;

import javax.management.MalformedObjectNameException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * @author Stan Lewis
 */
public class ProfileFacade implements Profile, HasId {

    J4pClient j4p;
    String id;
    String versionId;

    public ProfileFacade(J4pClient j4p, String versionId, String id) {
        this.j4p = j4p;
        this.versionId = versionId;
        this.id = id;
    }

    private static <T extends Object> T getFieldValue(J4pClient j4p, String operation, String versionId, String id, String field) {
        T rc = null;
        try {
            J4pExecRequest request = Helpers.createExecRequest(operation, versionId, id, Helpers.toList(field));
            J4pExecResponse response = j4p.execute(request);
            Map<String, Object> value = response.getValue();
            rc = (T)value.get(field);
        } catch (MalformedObjectNameException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to get container field", e);
        } catch (J4pException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to get container field", e);
        }
        return rc;
    }

    private <T extends Object> T getFieldValue(String field) {
        return getFieldValue(j4p, "getProfile(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, field);
    }

    @Override
    public String getVersion() {
        return versionId;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getAttributes() {
        return getFieldValue("attributes");
    }

    @Override
    public void setAttribute(String s, String s2) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Profile[] getParents() {
        List<String> profiles = getFieldValue("parents");
//        JSONArray profiles = getFieldValue("parents");
        if (profiles == null || profiles.size() == 0) {
            return new Profile[0];
        }
        List<Profile> answer = new ArrayList<Profile>();
        for (Object profile : profiles) {
            answer.add(new ProfileFacade(j4p, versionId, (String)profile));
        }
        return answer.toArray(new Profile[answer.size()]);
    }

    @Override
    public void setParents(Profile[] profiles) {
        List<String> parentIds = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (Profile profile : profiles) {
            parentIds.add(profile.getId());
        }
        Helpers.exec(j4p, "changeProfileParents(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, parentIds);
    }

    @Override
    public void refresh() {
        Helpers.exec(j4p, "refreshProfile", versionId, id);
    }

    @Override
    public Container[] getAssociatedContainers() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getLibraries() {
        return getFieldValue("libraries");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getEndorsedLibraries() {
        return getFieldValue("endorsedLibraries");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getExtensionLibraries() {
        return getFieldValue("extensionLibraries");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getBundles() {
        return getFieldValue("bundles");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getFabs() {
        return getFieldValue("fabs");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getFeatures() {
        return getFieldValue("features");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getRepositories() {
        return getFieldValue("repositories");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getOverrides() {
        return getFieldValue("overrides");
    }

    @Override
    public List<String> getConfigurationFileNames() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, byte[]> getFileConfigurations() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public byte[] getFileConfiguration(String fileName) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public void setFileConfigurations(Map<String, byte[]> stringMap) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Map<String, String>> getConfigurations() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getContainerConfiguration() {
        return getFieldValue("containerConfiguration");
    }

    @Override
    public void setConfigurations(Map<String, Map<String, String>> stringMapMap) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Profile getOverlay() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public Profile getOverlay(boolean substitute) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isOverlay() {
        return (Boolean)getFieldValue("overlay");
    }

    @Override
    public void delete() {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "deleteProfile(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)", versionId, id);
    }

    @Override
    public void delete(boolean b) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "deleteProfile(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)", versionId, id);
    }

    @Override
    public void setBundles(List<String> strings) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "setProfileBundles(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public void setFabs(List<String> strings) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "setProfileFabs(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public void setFeatures(List<String> strings) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "setProfileFeatures(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public void setRepositories(List<String> strings) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "setProfileRepositories(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public void setOverrides(List<String> strings) {
        Void v = Helpers.exec(j4p, "setProfileOverrides(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.List)", versionId, id, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean configurationEquals(Profile profile) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean agentConfigurationEquals(Profile profile) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isAbstract() {
        return (Boolean)getFieldValue("abstract");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isLocked() {
        return (Boolean)getFieldValue("locked");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isHidden() {
        return (Boolean)getFieldValue("hidden");
    }

    @Override
    public String getProfileHash() {
        return getFieldValue("lastModified");
    }

    @Override
    public int compareTo(Profile profile) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean exists() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("The method is not yet implemented.");
    }

    @Override
    public String getId() {
        return id;
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getConfiguration(String pid) {
        Map<String, Map<String, String>> configurations = getConfigurations();
        if (configurations != null) {
            return configurations.get(pid);
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public void setConfiguration(String pid, Map<String, String> configuration) {
        Map<String, Map<String, String>> configurations = getConfigurations();
        if (configurations != null) {
            configurations.put(pid, configuration);
            setConfigurations(configurations);
        }
    }
}

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The C40 Sao Paulo Summit assembles representatives from 40 cities to join forces in tackling climate change and global warming. Photo by Fernando Stankuns.
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Meredith Sue Willis, the noted novelist and my sister-in-law, has made six of her novels available for free, as e-books, until April 20th.
Sue, as her family members call her, brings characters to life in just a few words. Her novels tend to be centered on places that she brings to life as well – small-town West Virginia, rural Massachusetts, even a cruise ship before that phrase conjured a plague ward.
Give 'em a try. And you well might like her free literary newsletter as well.
Categories: culture, free culture Tagged with: books • covid29 • culture • free culture • literature Date: April 1st, 2020 dw
Re-reading Hornblower
I read all of C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower series when I was in high school.
I'm on a week of vacation — i.e., a nicer place to work — and have been re-reading them.
Why isn't everyone re-reading them? They're wonderful. Most of the seafaring descriptions are opaque to me, but it doesn't matter. The stories are character-based and Forester is great at expressing personality succinctly, as well as taking us deep into Hornblower's character over the course of the books. Besides, all the talk of binneys 'round the blaggard binge don't get in the way of understanding the action
Some prefer Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin "Master and Commander" series. They are wrong. I believe the Internet when it says O'Brian's battles are more realistic because they're based on actual events. I don't care. I do care, however, about O'Brian's clumsy construction of his main characters. I can sense the author trying to inflate them into three dimensions. Then they're given implausible roles and actions.
Of course you may disagree with me entirely about that. But here's the killer for me: O'Brian relies on long pages of back-and-forth dialogue…while not telling you who's talking. I don't like having to count back by twos to find the original speaker. All I need is an occasional, "'Me, neither,' said Jack." Is that asking too much?
Anyway, take a look at Hornblower and the Atropos to see if you're going to like the series. That begins with a few chapters of Hornblower arranging the logistics for the flotilla portion of Lord Nelson's funeral. If you find yourself as engrossed in chapters about logistics as I did, you're probably hooked forever.
Categories: culture Tagged with: books • literature • novels Date: June 28th, 2017 dw
[liveblog] Tim Wu
Tim Wu [Twitter: superwuster] is giving a talk jointly sponsored by the Shorenstein Center and the Berkman Klein Center. His new book is The Attention Merchants. He is introduced by Erie Meyer, a Shorenstein fellow this year.
NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people's ideas and words. You are warned, people.
Tim begins by noting that he was at the Berkman Center at its beginning, when it was pretty much just Charlie Nesson and Jonathan Zittrain.
He says that his new book is the "history of a business model": the re-sale of human attention. This model has "long anchored the media," but now has "exploded into all parts of our lives." It's part of many business models these days. Even the national parks are selling naming rights to trails.
"Maybe a thousand times a day, something tries to get us to spend maybe a micro-second" to notice something. "The deepest ambition of the book is to say that this is having an effect on the human condition." He points to the casino effect where you get distracted by links and an hour later you say, "What just happened?" He's concerned about a model that has us taking our attention away from people and our surroundings and into a commercial space.
The book is a history, he says. ""Newspapers once upon a time were not a mass media." In 1830 NY's biggest paper's circulation was 2,000.""Newspapers once upon a time were not a mass media." In 1830 NY's biggest paper's circulation was 2,000. Papers were expensive. So, Benjamin Day — "the first attention merchant" — lowered the price of his paper to a penny, and covered a broader range of topics, "human interest stories for a mass audience.". E.g., the first story in his paper, The NY Sun, was about tragic lovers. He was selling his audience to the advertisers.
"We're in a time when we're almost addicted to free stuff — free content, free services." But people have begun to realize that we are then the product. "What's being resold is something very scarce: human attention." And as food, shelter, clothing, etc., are abundant, so the scarce things become even more valuable. We have 168 hours in a week, and that is one of the last scarce resources. "The models of free are scrambling to get at that resource."
ERIE: You say in the book that trash-talking grabs our attention.
TIM: Many of the current techniques are quite old. E.g., Trolls. The NY Sun attracted competitors, including the NY Tribune. The Trib got attention by picking fights with other newspaper editors. He was the first troll. It worked. "We've seen recently that you can run an entire campaign just by insulting people." The Sun fought back with even more salacious stories. E.g., "it reported that a scientist had discovered life on the moon, including trees, horse-like animals, and man-bats. They never retracted it."it reported that a scientist had discovered life on the moon, including trees, horse-like animals, and man-bats. They never retracted it.
ERIE: As you point out, one of them grabbed attention by being pro-Abolition, which caused the others to become rabidly anti-Abolition.
TIM: The book doesn't totally condemn that attention-seeking model, but it warns about its tendency to run to the most lurid content. This makes for constant ethical problems.
ERIE: You talk about the Oprah model…
TIM: "Orpah Winfrey is one of the great innovators in this area." She was a fully integrated celebrity, production company, advertising company, and a tv network, all in one. She created product endorsements that drove a lot of advertising. She also married the appeal of ministry (salvation, forgiveness, transcendence) and commercialism. By 1995, she was making more money in entertainment than anyone else and gave rise to celebrities who are themselves attention merchants. E.g., Martha Stewart, Donald Trump: the celebrity builds her/his own media empire. Tim expects this to be the future.
One of the subtexts of the book, Tim says, is that the value of human attention was not widely recognized until the 20th century, except for organized religion. The entities interested in what you spent your time doing, before the 20th century, were organized religions that wanted you praying, and going to church, and in various ways to keep God on your mind." In some ways, Tim says, the story of the book is the story of government and business figuring out that this is valuable resource. The govt realizes it when they see they can raise an army through govt propaganda. Industry, after govt, realizes they can sell products if they have public attention.
ERIE: Can you talk about micro-celebrities?
TIM: There's a fascinating change in celebrity. (Tim name-checks me for the line "In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people.") And reality tv offers the lottery of fame to anyone. This has some consistency with the American dream: Everyone can have their own land and be sort of wealthy. "We have this idea that everyone can be famous." The negative side of this is that in fact the disparities remain: it's extremely hard to become famous, and the pursuit of it leads to empty lives. "It's not like you write something and people read it." The main reason is biological: ""The default setting of our brain is to ignore everything."The default setting of our brain is to ignore everything."
You can control attention to some degree, but it's always darting around, and you can really only attend to one thing at once.
ERIE: You say the first ad blocker was a remote control…
TIM: In the 1920s, Zenith was a maverick company. The head of it ("The Commodore") thought commercials had ruined radio. He had his engineers work on ad-blocking software for TV. They came up with the remote control. Originally it was a gun so you could shoot out the commercials. There have been other revolts. In Paris, there was a revolt against posters. In Paris, advertising is still restricted to certain areas. We may be in another such period now. (He mentions the Brave browserthat blocks ads from the gitgo.) "I believe in the power and legitimacy of results."
ERIE: "You've said that if you have a mission in life, it's to fight bullies." What should aspiring entrepreneurs do?
TIM: I struggle with this. "A lot of people who have gone into tech have been very idealistic people." The pay-for-content models haven't worked so well. One chapter tells the story of decision-making at Google. At one point, it was bleeding money and didn't know what to do, so they thought about advertising. But in 1996 Larry Page had written a manifesto that declared that advertising-funded search engines will always be biased and will never serve the interests of people. But Google thought it could square the circle with Adwords: a form of advertising that made the product better and didn't bother people. That was true at the beginning. If an ad showed up, which usually didn't happen, it'd be useful to you.
But the demands of the ad-based model have increased. The longer it gets, the worse it gets. They've increasingly blurred the lines between the organic results and the ads. Google Maps shows us things and it sometimes unclear why. Most of the major platforms haven't gotten much better for consumers over the past few years, but have gotten better for advertisers. A developer said, ""The best minds of our generation have gone to getting people to click on ads."The best minds of our generation have gone to getting people to click on ads."
Tech is a key driver these days, he says. "Which has changed your life more? Government or tech?" I wish Google had considered a different kind of corporate form or model. "I give Wikipedia a lot of credit for going non-commercial. I give even more to the original creators of the Internet who just built it and put it out there." E.g., the creator of email didn't look for a business model. Likewise for the creators of the Internet Protocol or the Web.
ERIE: Have you ever clicked on an ad on purpose?
TIM: I think yes. I think I wanted to buy those razors.
Q: Two positive examples: FB put out the call to register to vote. Services raise money for worthy causes.
A: Yes. Gathering up attention for some purpose isn't inherently good or evil. The book argues for carving out quiet spaces, but I believe in the Habermasian public sphere.
Q: Platforms can abandon ads but show us content based on who pays them. How can we rebel against what we can't see?
A: Ad-blockers are not the most sustainable form of rebellion. I've decided that my attitude that I should never pay for anything on the Web came from my adolescent years. You have to support the content you like. ""There's a difference between buying and supporting."""There's a difference between buying and supporting."
Q: How about "Society as Spectacle"? And Kevin Kelly's True Fan theory?
A: Paid models support a much broader variety of content. Ad models require the underlying content to more generally be mass content. That's one of the reason that TV has gotten better over the past fifteen years. Ad supported TV drove to the middle. TV now gets 50% of its revenue from non-advertising.
Q: What's been your hardest struggle to regain control of your attention?
A: All books probably come from a personal place. Control of attention is a struggle for me. One of the places I decided I needed to write this book was during a 10-day solo trip in the Utah desert. Time seemed to pass in very different ways. An hour could feel like a week. I felt like the modern regime was having me lose control. I like the Web, but I found I didn't like the way I'd spent my time. I wish I'd spent time on activities I'd consciously chosen. I like JS Mills' Chapter 3: Life is a matter of autonomy and self-development, and you need to make decisions that are yours.
Q: Is your a book is a manifesto for policy change, or a self-help book?
A: Can I have a third option?
Q: Are there policy implications?
A: I struggled with how much to make this legally prescriptive. Should I end the book with policy proposals? I decided not to, for a number of reasons. One had to do with craft: those last chapters of policy prescriptions, after a book covering 200 years, are usually pathetic. It's very hard to regulate well. A lot of it has to do with how people conduct their lives. Policies aren't sensitive to individual situations. I have complex feelings about it and didn't want to cram into the book. And then people focus on those prescriptions at the expense of the rest of the book.
"If you get down to it, there is room for a new era of consumer protection" that tries to protect attention. Especially when it's not consensual. E.g., the back of a taxi cab where you're forced to be exposed to ads. "Non-consensual things reaching you…in law we call that 'battery'."
Q: Is commerce in attention span part of a democracy? People have to learn things they would not willingly learn.
A: If we perfect our filters, we may live in worlds where we learn only what we want to learn. I have complicated ideas about this. The penny press did a good job of creating the sense of a public and public opinion. But I resist the idea that to be a democracy we have to all attend to the same sources of information. "In the 19th century, America was a flourishing democracy and there was no national media"In the 19th century, America was a flourishing democracy and there was no national media, and lived in geographically defined filter bubbles. I don't pine for the 1950s when everyone watched the same news broadcasts. Building one's character means making your own information environment.
Categories: liveblog, marketing, policy Tagged with: attention • books Date: October 25th, 2016 dw
Lewis Carroll on where knowledge lives
On books and knowledge, from Sylvie and Bruno by Lewis Carroll, 1889:
"Which contain the greatest amount of Science, do you think, the books, or the minds?"
"Rather a profound question for a lady!" I said to myself, holding, with the conceit so natural to Man, that Woman's intellect is essentially shallow. And I considered a minute before replying. "If you mean living minds, I don't think it's possible to decide. There is so much written Science that no living person has ever read: and there is so much thought-out Science that hasn't yet been written. But, if you mean the whole human race, then I think the minds have it: everything, recorded in books, must have once been in some mind, you know."
"Isn't that rather like one of the Rules in Algebra?" my Lady enquired. ("Algebra too!" I thought with increasing wonder.) "I mean, if we consider thoughts as factors, may we not say that the Least Common Multiple of all the minds contains that of all the books; but not the other way?"
"Certainly we may!" I replied, delighted with the illustration. "And what a grand thing it would be," I went on dreamily, thinking aloud rather than talking, "if we could only apply that Rule to books! You know, in finding the Least Common Multiple, we strike out a quantity wherever it occurs, except in the term where it is raised to its highest power. So we should have to erase every recorded thought, except in the sentence where it is expressed with the greatest intensity."
My Lady laughed merrily. "Some books would be reduced to blank paper, I'm afraid!" she said.
"They would. Most libraries would be terribly diminished in bulk. But just think what they would gain in quality!"
"When will it be done?" she eagerly asked. "If there's any chance of it in my time, I think I'll leave off reading, and wait for it!"
"Well, perhaps in another thousand years or so—"
"Then there's no use waiting!", said my Lady. "Let's sit down. Uggug, my pet, come and sit by me!"
Categories: libraries Tagged with: 2b2k • books • knowledge • libraries • literature Date: September 18th, 2016 dw
Why I have not been blogging much: it's my book's fault and more
My blogging has gone way down in frequency and probably in quality. I think there are two reasons.
First, I've been wrapped up in trying to plot a new book. I've known for about three years the set of things I want to write about, but I've had my usual difficult time figuring out what the book is actually about. For example, when I was planning Everything is Miscellaneous, I knew that I wanted to write about the importance of metadata, but it took a couple of years to figure out that it wasn't a book about metadata, or a book about the virtue of messiness, or two dozen other attempts at a top line.
I'm going through the same process now. The process itself consists of me writing a summary of each chapter. Except they're not summaries. They're like the article version of each chapter and usually work about to about 2,000 words. That's because a chapter is more like a path than a list, and I can't tell what's on the path until I walk it. Given that I work for a living, each complete iteration can take me 2-3 months. And then I realize that I have it all wrong.
I don't feel comfortable going through this process in public. My investment of time into these book summaries is evidence of how seriously I take them, but my experience shows that nineteen times out of twenty, what I thought was a good idea is a very bad idea. It's embarrassing. So, I don't show these drafts even to the brilliant, warm and forgiving Berkman Book Club — a group of Berkfolk writing books — not only because it's embarrassing but because I don't want to inflict 10,000 words on them when I know the odds are that I'm going to do a thorough re-write starting tomorrow. The only people who see these drafts are my literary agents and friends David Miller and Lisa Adams, who are crucial critics in helping me to see what's wrong and right in what I've done, and working out the next approach.
Anyway, I've been very focused for the past couple of months on figuring out this next book. I think I'm getting closer. But I always think that.
The second reason I haven't been blogging much: I've been mildly depressed. No cause for alarm. It's situational and it's getting better. I've been looking for a new job because the Harvard Library Innovation Lab that I've co-directed, with the fabulous Kim Dulin, for almost five years has been given a new mission. I'm very proud of what we — mainly the amazing developers who are actually more like innovation fellows — have done, and I'm very sorry to leave. Facing unemployment hasn't helped my mood. There have been some other stresses as well. So: somewhat depressed. And that makes it harder for me to post to my blog for some reason.
I thought you might want to know, not that anyone cares [Sniffles, idly kicks at a stone in the ground, waits for a hug].
Categories: berkman Tagged with: books • lil • personal • writing Date: July 26th, 2014 dw
The kids are reading more than we thought
A fascinating new report from Pew Internet includes the following:
As with other age groups, younger Americans were significantly more likely to have read an e-book during 2012 than a year earlier. Among all those ages 16-29, 19% read an e-book during 2011, while 25% did so in 2012. At the same time, however, print reading among younger Americans has remained steady: When asked if they had read at least one print book in the past year, the same proportion (75%) of Americans under age 30 said they had both in 2011 and in 2012.
In fact, younger Americans under age 30 are now significantly more likely than older adults to have read a book in print in the past year (75% of all Americans ages 16-29 say this, compared with 64% of those ages 30 and older). And more than eight in ten (85%) older teens ages 16-17 read a print book in the past year, making them significantly more likely to have done so than any other age group.
…younger Americans have a broad understanding of what a library is and can be—??a place for accessing printed books as well as digital resources, that remains at its core a physical space.
Overall, most Americans under age 30 say it is "very important" for libraries to have librarians and books for borrowing;
Categories: libraries Tagged with: books • libraries Date: June 25th, 2013 dw
[misc] The loneliness of the long distance ISBN
NOTE on May 23: OCLC has posted corrected numbers. I've corrected them in the post below; the changes are mainly fractional. So you can ignore the note immediately below.
NOTE a couple of hours later: OCLC has discovered a problem with the analysis. So please ignore the following post until further notice. Apologies from the management.
Ever since the 1960s, publishers have used ISBN numbers as identifiers of editions of books. Since the world needs unique ways to refer to unique books, you would think that ISBN would be a splendid solution. Sometimes and in some instances it is. But there are problems, highlighted in the latest analysis run by OCLC on its database of almost 300 million records.
Number of ISBNs
Percentage of the records
So, 78% of the OCLC's humungous collection of books records have no ISBN, and only 1.6% have the single ISBN that God intended.
As Roy Tennant [twitter: royTennant] of OCLC points out (and thanks to Roy for providing these numbers), many works in this collection of records pre-date the 1960s. Even so, the books with multiple ISBNs reflect the weakness of ISBNs as unique identifiers. ISBNs are essentially SKUs to identify a product. The assigning of ISBNs is left up to publishers, and they assign a new one whenever they need to track a book as an inventory item. This does not always match how the public thinks about books. When you want to refer to, say, Moby-Dick, you probably aren't distinguishing between one with illustrations, a large-print edition, and one with an introduction by the Deadliest Catch guys. But publishers need to make those distinctions, and that's who ISBN is intended to serve.
This reflects the more general problem that books are complex objects, and we don't have settled ways of sorting out all the varieties allowed within the concept of the "same book." Same book? I doubt it!
Still, these numbers from OCLC exhibit more confusion within the ISBN number space than I'd expected.
MINUTES LATER: Folks on a mailing list are wondering if the very high percentage of records with two ISBNs is due to the introduction of 13-digit ISBNs to supplement the initial 10-digit ones.
Categories: everythingIsMiscellaneous, libraries Tagged with: books • eim • everything is miscellaneous • isbn • libraries Date: May 20th, 2013 dw
Attending to appearances
I picked up a copy of Bernard Knox's 1994 Backing into the Future because somewhere I saw it referenced about the weird fact that the ancient Greeks thought that the future was behind them. Knox presents evidence from The Odyssey and Oedipus the King to back this up, so to speak. But that's literally on the first page of the book. The rest of it consists of brilliant and brilliantly written essays about ancient life and scholarship. Totally enjoyable.
True, he undoes one of my favorite factoids: that Greeks in Homer's time did not have a concept of the body as an overall unity, but rather only had words for particular parts of the body. This notion comes most forcefully from Bruno Snell in The Discovery of Mind, although I first read about it — and was convinced — by a Paul Feyerabend essay. In his essay "What Did Achilles Look Like?," Knox convincingly argues that the Greeks had both and a word and concept for the body as a unity. In fact, they may have had three. Knox then points to Homeric uses that seem to indicate, yeah, Homer was talking about a unitary body. E.g., "from the bath he [Oydsseus] stepped, in body [demas] like the immortals," and Poseidon "takes on the likeness of Calchas, in bodily form," etc. [p. 52] I don't read Greek, so I'll believe whatever the last expert tells me, and Knox is the last expert I've read on this topic.
In a later chapter, Knox comes back to Bernard William's criticism, in Shame and Necessity, of the "Homeric Greeks had no concept of a unitary body" idea, and also discusses another wrong thing that I had been taught. It turns out that the Greeks did have a concept of intention, decision-making, and will. Williams argues that they may not have had distinct words for these things, but Homer "and his characters make distinctions that can only be understood in terms of" those concepts. Further, Williams writes that Homer has
no word that means, simply, "decide." But he has the notion…All that Homer seems to have left out is the idea of another mental action that is supposed necessarily to lie between coming to a conclusion and acting on it: and he did well in leaving it out, since there is no such action, and the idea of it is the invention of bad philosophy." [p. 228]
Wow. Seems pretty right to me. What does the act of "making a decision" add to the description of how we move from conclusion to action?
Knox also has a long appreciation of Martha Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness (1986) which makes me want to go out and get that book immediately, although I suspect that Knox is making it considerably more accessible than the original. But it sounds breath-takingly brilliant.
Knox's essay on Nussbaum, "How Should We Live," is itself rich with ideas, but one piece particularly struck me. In Book 6 of the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle dismisses one of Socrates' claims (that no one knowingly does evil) by saying that such a belief is "manifestly in contradiction with the phainomena." I've always heard the word "phainomena" translated in (as Knox says) Baconian terms, as if Aristotle were anticipating modern science's focus on the facts and careful observation. We generally translate phainomena as "appearances" and contrast it with reality. The task of the scientist and the philosopher is to let us see past our assumptions to reveal the thing as it shows itself (appears) free of our anticipations and interpretations, so we can then use those unprejudiced appearances as a guide to truths about reality.
But Nussbaum takes the word differently, and Knox is convinced. Phainomena, are "the ordinary beliefs and sayings" and the sayings of the wise about things. Aristotle's method consisted of straightening out whatever confusions and contradictions are in this body of beliefs and sayings, but then to show that at least the majority of those beliefs are true. This is a complete inversion of what I'd always thought. Rather than "attending to appearances" meaning dropping one's assumptions to reveal the thing in its untouched state, it actually means taking those assumptions — of the many and of the wise — as containing truth. It is a confirming activity, not a penetrating and an overturning. Nussbaum says for Aristotle (and in contrast to Plato), "Theory must remain committed to the ways human beings live, act, see." (Note that it's entirely possible I'm getting Aristotle, Nussbaum, and Knox wrong. A trifecta of misunderstanding!)
Nussbaum's book sounds amazing, and I know I should have read it, oh, 20 years ago, but it came out the year I left the philosophy biz. And Knox's book is just wonderful. If you ever doubted why we need scholars and experts — why would you think such a thing? — this book is a completely enjoyable reminder.
Categories: culture, experts, philosophy, too big to know Tagged with: 2b2k • books • classics • greek • philosophy Date: January 24th, 2013 dw
Singing the news
I'm reading Robert Darnton's Poetry and the Police, a fascinating history that uses the Affair of the Fourteen — which resulted in the downfall of an important government minister — as a way to explore the social networking of news in pre-Republic France.
In 1749, the police cracked down on citizens reciting particular popular poems that were considered seditious. Prof. Darnton has done prodigious research exploring how the poems moved through the culture, being altered along the way. It's the basic folk movement that we see on the Web now, albeit the Web speeds things up a wee bit.
Here's a paragraph about how these poems/songs spread news:
By the time "Qu'une bâtarde de catin" reached the Fourteen, it included a little bit of everything that was in the news. It had become a sung newspaper, full of commentary on current events, and catchy enough to appeal to a broad public. Moreover, the listeners and singers could adjust it to their own taste. The topical song was a fluid medium, which could absorb the preferences of different groups and could expand to include everything that interested the public as a whole." (p. 78)
This is a reminder of two things: the most basic elements of human sociality change less than we think, and deep experts who write beautifully are a treasure.
Categories: culture, journalism Tagged with: books • folksongs • social networks Date: August 26th, 2012 dw
[berkman] Brad Abruzzi on being an indie author
TITLE: [berkman] Brad Abruzzi on authorship and publishing
Brad Abruzzi, author of the NJ Famous Turnpike Witch, a novel I really liked, is talking about the trajectory of authorship, at a Berkman lunch.
Brad says that he's not a success story. If you want to know how to make millions, thousands, or even hundreds, you should write a book about how to write succcessful books. Or vampires, he says. Instead, he's going to give us thoughts about authorship and publishing.
He says he was in his first year at law school, interested in the history of literature. He wrote a note titled "Exploitative publishers, untrustworthy systems, and the dream of a digital revolution for artists. " It was based on Marxist historical theory and sketched three phases:
1. Feudal: pre-modern, from antiquity to production publishing. It relied upon patrons who offered a living wage, and could bring interest and favor to the works. In return, the author might offer a celebration of the patron in the work. Or, Virgil who established the lineage of Emperor Augustus all the way back to the gods. Or dedicate the work. Brad points to Sterne's dedication in Tristram Shandy. But this arrangement produces resentment: the authors feel they are the creators, but the patrons take some of the glory. (He reads a scathing letter to Chesterfield from Samuel Johnson in response to a request for a dedication, who lived on the cusp of Phase 2.)
2. The industrialization of publishing. It put the means of reproduction (Marxist pun intended by Brad) into the hands of the publishers. Thus, authors were once again dependent. This is because there's always a super-abundance of manuscripts trying to get into the market. This selection process has of course become highly professional. "The problem is that we didn't choose these people to be the gatekeepers…Ultimately their responsibility is to their shareholders." This works better than the Feudal system, but the criterion is what an editor thinks will sell. (Brad points out that his work was rejected by publishers.) "The superabundance problem persists." There are now two barriers of entry to works of fiction: Works have to come from literary agent before publishers will consider them. "If you want to be a writer, you'll probably be better off writing for yourself and buying scratch tickets, because you won't be as frustrated when the scratch ticket tells you that you've lost."
So, he asks, is there any hope for someone like him, who thinks his works are good but who cannot get a publisher to publish them? Yes, he says, digital publishing is the hope. "We can make our works directly available to readers. We don't need publishers any more."
But, readers rely on publishers to winnow away at the super-abundance of manuscripts. Without publishers, "we move the slush pile to around the ankles of readers." "We can create a ground-based, critical reader culture" in which people can publish their own reviews, accrue authority, etc. "Amazon does this a bit of course…but we can be more substantive than that." "Everyone has the means of reproduction. So, hooray."
So, why did it take him 11 years to publish his own work? "I've got all sorts of excuses…but the truth is that traditional publishing offered a better prospect for me." First, digital reading hasn't been as appealing. That's obviously beginning to change. Second, publishers put their chosen works on the fast track. If you can get two people to like your work — agent and publisher — you can cut to the front of the line. So, he tried for ten years to sell his books. His agent was very good at getting flattering rejection letters from publishers. His first novel, In Defense of Cactus Kelly in the late '90s, didn't get a publisher. He blogged the second book — NJFTPW — and added popup multimedia. But no one came.
Time passed. Self-publishing became a more promising prospects because of the emergence of digital marketplaces where people can find what they want to read. At certain point, he decided to just publish NJTPW. He uploaded it, pressed the buttons about royalty schemes, and it's up on Amazon. "But then there's the super-abundance problem."
The book is currently at #164,296 at Amazon. A couple of days ago, it was over #300,000. "It doesn't take much to bump up your book." "If you can use social media to overthrow an Egyptian dictator, you can probably get people to buy my book," Brad says, adding "These are probably at comparable levels of difficulty." He has a handful of followers at Twitter. He's posted some ads at Facebook, and has 421 Likes. "But Likes on FB don't translate to sales and reading of your book. Maybe they translate at a 1% rate." Brad isn't willing to conclude anything about the effectiveness of social media, since he is "ham-handed" in its use.
He shows his sales from the last month on Kindle, which was his worst week: 4. But in the three days he had a promo offering it for free, he had 350 downloads. The promotions get you channeled into Kindle's promotions. During the promo, he was in the top 20 for literary fiction, along with public domain classics. He thinks he did that well in part because he has all 5-star reviews [one of which is mine].
This gets him thinking about the reader-based review culture. People do write blog posts about books, some on book sites. "Even the reviewing culture suffers from the super-abundance problem. If you want a good book blogger to review you book, you have to pitch them." The Kirkus Indie program wants $425 to review your book. "I stand here fairly clueless…but hopeful in a general sense that we're on the cusp of creating a situation in which publishers are not the final answer….Readers need to believe that books that are not traditionally published can still be a good book. Readers need to look outside the walled garden." "Writers need to trust that readers will do these things." If so, those who own printing presses won't get decide what we get to read.
Q: How did you pick Kindle, and not Nook, etc.?
A: It was my choice for an initial platform. You can participate in Amazon's free promos if you commit to exclusivity to Kindle Select for 90 days. It also lets your books be lent for free to Kindle Prime program. You get paid pro rata for those loans. I am thinking about printing on demand.
Q: In the spiritual self-help area, a lot of people promote their books via their blogs. They refer to one another mutually.
A: I experimented with posting at FB under the name of the Turnpike Witch, trying to get this character communicating with people.
Q: I appreciate your intersection of analysis and emotional experience. What you say about publishing is the same as in music. And Louis C.K. And Patton Oswald a couple of days ago gave a keynote called "A Letter to Gatekeepers," saying that if they continue to think narrowly, they'll kill their industry. Also, on FB you can pay to promote your post. Finally, people want to participate in things that other people are participating in. That can work for us or against us in the attention economy. Finally finally, a combination of all three of your phases: fan-funding, kickstarter.com, etc. This gets people in as patrons, and then they evangelize for you.
A: Publishers encourage you in their rejections not as a tactic to maintain hegemony, but because they're being polite. BTW, my agent left the biz, and went back to school in anthropology.
Q: What about copyright? People can disseminate it without your knowledge. We're looking at self-publishing because the royalties are better, but are you protected?
A: I'd take the trade in a minute. It's not a coincidence that the first copyrights were given first to the publishers ("stationers privileges"). They wanted to avoid undercutting each other, and the Crown wanted to keep an eye on what was being published. The copyright concerns come first and foremost from publishers…
Q: Creative people are concerned also.
A: I won't say categorically they're not. But many of us would put it out for free, since I'm not depending on my books to make a living.
Q: [doc searls] Cluetrain is free online but still sells well. But, Brad, why not just make it freely available in an open format, and put out a tip jar? How comfortable to do you feel inside the silo that is Amazon?
A: I'm trying to understand how useful it is to have Amazon. It might be a deal with the devil.
Q: [me] How many of you here in the audience are going to buy the book? [About 5 hands go up.] Why not?
Answers: It's not on Nook. …I've got too much to read…I don't know enough about it…
Q: Publishers play an important curatorial function. I'd love to circumvent it because they look for a formula. But putting it on line isn't enough. Where is the inter-connect?
Q: I edit an online literary magazine. Finding folks who are already reading at open mics, making a connection is great. We have gatekeepers of a sort, but they're made up of writers and readers already in the community. Also, there are independent publishers who are not motivated by profit. Getting the novel excerpted in a journal like ours helps. Also: BestIndieLitNewEngland.org There's something inbetween self-publishing as an individual and commercial success. There are communities.
A: Yes, my social media work was aimed at reating a community.
Q: Have you tried open mic readings? Or do you need to be a published author?
A: One of the reason I write is because I do it better than I speak. A judge once told me to find a job where I write things to people, rather than talking to them, I elected to take it as a compliment. I still see myself as someone who'll put something out and broadcast it, stand behind it. T'hat's not getting me to where I need to be. I thought maybe I'd get NJFTPW out of the way so I could write the next thing to submit to a conventional publisher. Now I'm not sure. I'm trying throwing our more content.
Q: Your expectations of traditional publishers are overstated. Publishers often do nothing but print. Also, digital publishing has taken us to a place as bad as traditional publishing. Charlie Stross (sf writer, former sw guy) has an excellent analysis of what Amazon is doing to the market. Single publisher, single format, own their own hardware.
A: Traditional publishing has worked wonderfully for us. People can make a living as a writer. The Amazon issue is a trade-off, which I re-examine all the time. People complain that there's too much junk at Amazon., e.g. people re-selling Wikipedia content. Rather than putting in a spam button, let people write reviews.
Q: I'm writing a book for a publisher. Even with a publisher, it's up to the author to build a market. I'm writing a memoir of my father, a queer poet, self-published before the digital age. It was all shoe leather: printing stuff up, going to bookstores, doing readings. It was about finding community, promoting writers like himself, and putting out ideas.
A: Copyright is an incentive for people to do something creative, but I don't think it's anything close to the whole ball of wax. E.g., I enjoy communicating to myself — re-reading something I wrote when younger. But, more important, I want to communicate something.
Q: My new startup is trying to enable readers as reviewers. Our tech helps lend credibility to reviews. Self-publishing has grown 400% since 2010, approaching a $4B market. Your 2001 article described the problem perfectly.
Q: I'm intrigued by the two sides of your personality: button-down and creative. This book is very readable. Could you get a celebrity do the reading?
A: I think a lot of this has to do with authority. People with broader authority can move copies.
TAGS: -berkman
Categories: copyright, culture Tagged with: berkman • books • copyright • culture • publishing Date: July 31st, 2012 dw

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Podcast to Print
Photo by Mateo Abrahan on Unsplash
We all know the film industry would be nothing without books or short stories to adapt. On occasion, a film will be turned into a book ... though l doubt any of those books will win any Pulitzers. But what of the relationship of books to other forms of media? Lately, I've become interested in a new symbiosis that seems to be emerging between books and podcasts.
In the last few years, podcasting has exploded, leading some to declare the phenomenon "audio's second golden age." According to Forbes magazine, 67 million Americans listen to a podcast each month. Weird in this age of highly visual media, right? But the podcast is now considered THE way to communicate, and everybody who's anybody has one.
The literary world has embraced the podcast to the benefit of readers and writers. And the podcast boom is a boon to the self-publishing gurus out there. Of course, a lot of these podcasters are trying to sell you something, which is why I don't bother with most of them. Rather, I am interested in podcasts that transport me and expand my world view, and so I'm intrigued when a "podcast with spine" becomes a "book with spine."
If in the past, like me, you've been more likely to pick up a book than put in your earbuds, perhaps the following book suggestions might be your entry points into the wonderful world of podcasting.
1. All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown
This book is edited by Catherine Burns with a foreword by fantasy writer Neil Gaiman (an odd choice for nonfiction, but a smart choice for appealing to a broader audience). This book came out of the The Moth podcast, which gives everyday people an opportunity to tell a 10-minute true story live on air. A new story is put out every Tuesday. As a podcast, The Moth aims to connect human beings through storytelling (that gets my vote), and they tell you that when you support Moth with a donation, you "create a better world."
2. Adnan's Story: Murder, Justice, and the Case That Captivated a Nation
By Rabia Chaudry. This book followed the enormously popular podcast "Serial" that was produced by This American Life for PBS, and it explores in more detail the story of Adnan Syed, who was accused of and imprisoned for murder. Why is this a podcast/book with spine? Because it's a passion project of Chaudry who is convinced of Syed's innocence and sees his case as part of a bigger struggle for a fairer justice system in the US. A noble cause indeed.
3. Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast
By Marc Maron & Brendan McDonald. Marc Maron is a stand-up comedian, and his podcast is a series of interviews with great people and great artists. But why is this a podcast with spine? Well, this is where my bias comes in. In my not-so-humble opinion, stand-ups are some of our most important social commentators, and their unapologetic evisceration of politicians and other people of power is vital to democracy. This WTF book isn't a work of satire. However, it is described as, "A collection of intimate, hilarious and life-changing conversations," so count me in.
I'm excited about this emerging synergy between the spoken and written word. Podcasting isn't a threat to reading; it's most definitely an opportunity. Through podcasts, listeners are being introduced to new writers and new books, but more interestingly, the podcast can create meaningful literature that has a physical presence in the world that has a longer shelf-life (pun intended) than a digital audio file.


With the evolution of producer software, everyone can make beats on their computer. It doesn't take a lot of money or studio time to learn how to chop up samples, loop drum patterns, and create something great. And we're finding more and more beatmakers are making quality tracks.
Apart from original productions, there are a ton of beatmakers who put their own twists on already released hip-hop tracks. Sometimes they want to make a track more bangin' for the club, other times more chilled-out. Nevertheless, household names like Shlohmo and RL Grime have boosted their career by remixing the likes of Kanye West, Yung Scooter, Rihanna, Drake, and more.
Here's a list of producer remixes that are even better than the original. Share other dope remixes you would have included in the comments.
Yung Scooter's cocaine anthem was a solid rap track, but it was missing that extra "ummphh." Shlohmo took it there, adding enough bass to make you feel it in your bones.
Well did anyone really like the original "Gangnam Style"? Maybe this wasn't the toughest track to outdo, but Diplo really knocked it out of the park, inviting 2 Chainz and Tyga along to make this a certified trap banger.
UZ's mysterious persona is one thing, but when you see his name on the track, you know he's going to come with some epic dance beats. When he remixed this Ice Cube track that also features 2 Chainz, it was on from the very beginning.
Just when you thought a Waka Flocka song couldn't turn up any higher, Lunice and Hudson Mohawke, aka TNGHT, cranked it up to 11.
On the other side of the spectrum, Ryan Hemsworth created a beautiful interpretation of Frank Ocean's "Thinkin' Bout You." He certainly didn't turn it in to a "banger," but the added melodies let this song soar just a little bit higher than the original.
Knxwledge, who is a producer on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, did an entire project of Danny Brown flips. It's freakin' awesome, and includes this epic twist on Brown's "I Will."
HudMo injected B.O.B.'s "Satellite" with a little bit of future flavor. This was a part of Adult Swim's Atlanta rap remix mixtape.
Elaquent took this sad Lil B track, gave it an off-beat rhythm and turned it in to an alternative hip hop masterpiece.
Kaytranada gave this one the summer vibes, and it's a perfect track to get back in the playlist as the weather warms up. It isn't drastically different from the OG, but the changes are well warranted.
The original was a party staple, but seriously, did you ever think festivals full of people would rage to the original? RL Grime made this a must-play not only for himself, but for every other DJ who spins trap music for a living.


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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories: All 56 Stories With Original Illustrations From The Strand Magazine
Tác giả: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Bijan Khalili reports on Carlmont High School's second blood drive of the year, which was a huge success with 75 students volunteering to donate.
Bijan Khalili covers the upcoming Carlmont Robotics tournament.
Bijan Khalili reports on Carlmont's efforts to spread awareness for breast cancer leading up to the "Quad" basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 11.
Bijan Khalili reports on Varsity Girls Soccer against the Aragon Dons at home on January 29.
Bijan Khalili explores how finals season is for teachers.
Bijan Khalili reports on the upcoming 2015-2016 Carlmont mens's soccer season.
Bijan Khalili covers the impact of the new app, "After School," on Carlmont high school's student body.


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package edu.pw.elka.gtna.centrality.utils;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import edu.pw.elka.gtna.centrality.interfaces.Centrality;

public class FeatureScalingNormalization<E> {

	Map<E, Double> normalizedCentrality = new HashMap<E, Double>();
	Centrality<E> centrality;

	private double max;
	private double min;

	public FeatureScalingNormalization(Centrality<E> centrality) {
		this.centrality = centrality;

		double max = Double.MIN_VALUE;
		double min = Double.MAX_VALUE;

		for(E el: centrality.getElements()){
			max = Math.max(centrality.getCentrality(el), max);
			min = Math.min(centrality.getCentrality(el), min);
		}
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			normalizedCentrality.put(el, (centrality.getCentrality(el)-min)/(max-min));
		}

		double sum = 0.0;
		for(E el: centrality.getElements()){
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		for(E el: centrality.getElements()){
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	public double getNormCentrality(E el){
		return normalizedCentrality.get(el);
	}

	public double getMax() {
		return max;
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	public double getMin() {
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On the top floor of the Kumpula Campus Library, a new kind of smart facility for researchers and students will be opened. The library's second-floor customer facilities are available from Friday, February 1st.
The library's facility upgrade project is connected with a broader project that involves the Faculty of Science and the University's Student Services. What is taking place in the space is the first pilot of the Ubikampus project.
The 1,000 square meter pilot premises of the Ubikampus project house altogether 168 workstations and 16 separate rooms bookable with the tablets situated at the doors. More than half of the space is reserved for students, the rest for researchers. Students' facilities include reading places and group study rooms.
Arrangements on the second floor are still in progress, but you are welcome to check out and test new facilities!


Norwich vs Birmingham is the first match of the 28th round of the second league in England, which will be played on Carrow Road, starting at 21:45.
Norwich is one of the best teams in the Championship, currently ranked third in the rankings, with a high chance of promotion in the Premier League, where he has not played for several years. The Canaries have raised 50 points so far in 27 stages with 14 wins and eight draws, suffering only five defeats. The hosts of this defeat have one of the best attacks in the second division, with 49 successes, having a fairly modest defensive, receiving 35 goals. Daniel Farke's team is in a modest form, given that he is victorious in the last five games, losing twice.
Birmingham is a slightly weaker team, judging by the evolutions in this championship edition, being the eighth in the ranking, four points in the sixth place, the last one to lead in the play-off promotion. Garry Monk's students won a third of the Championship games, winning nine wins, drawing no less than 12 times, suffering six defeats, following these games winning 30 goals, scoring nine more. "Blue" is in a modest form, coming after four games without success, drawing first with Brentford and Sheffield Wednesday, then losing in duels with West Ham and Middlesbrough.
Norwich is not going through a great time, it's clear, but in this dispute he has a good opportunity to end the series of weak matches, facing a weaker opponent, also playing in the field, where supporters can be of great help.