Getting what's offline online, or, Feel my pain, children

[kestrell]

A post in which a media studies professor describes the results of an assignment in which college students had to find a print resource not available online and then scan it, run it through OCR, and upload it to the Internet.
The big epiphany: it's hard!
I don't think you need to be teaching media studies to find this an interesting assignment, as it would also demonstrate how little non-mainstream, non-bestseller, and indie literature is not online, and how that would shape what people read, and even what people are aware of as potential reading.

http://noteonmydoor.blogspot.com/2012/03/counterintuitive-digital-media_21.html

Comments

[kestrell]

Pedantic? Could we possibly be talking about the same fandom??

Ah, I do love the little kick I get from starting my day with a bit of sarcasm to go with my decaf.

Actually, one of the questions on the prof's fandom survey was "What is something you dislike about fandom?" I started and stopped a few times, searching for the precise words, and what finally came out as a complete sentence was, "I don't know if you have noticed this, but sometimes fans can be a bit pedantic." I was actually thinking more of the people who are always condescending about being pedantic, mostly males. The thing I like most about fans is, everybody does something and is enthusiastic about what they do, so the pedanticis just the dark side of that.

I haven't read the Bill Henerson book--he's the principal from Dorchester, right? Last I looked, Bookshae did not have his book, but it did seem to be available in ebook form.

To tell the truth, I have not been reading much nonfiction this year. As a matter of fact, I have been reading almost entirely from the mystery and detective fiction genre, mostly female authors. I'll be making a post about what I've been reading sometime this week.