• The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner
• The Verse-O-Matic (my poetry calculator)
• Sony's Librie, which I saw at Ken Brooks' office last year.
• Religious messages in unexpected spaces (see Alaska Airlines' inflight meals and In-and-Out Burger wrappings)
• Burma Shave ads [more]
• Message of the Day (MOTD; unix command)
• NYT e-book article from December 5, 2004: "E-books are creeping into our world in other ways. Libraries, a potentially huge market, have started to purchase e-books that patrons can download at home. Digital books are a librarian's dream come true, because they don't take up shelf space, don't wear out and are automatically returned to the library on the due date."
• The Pintchik Oracle

Research

• Investigate possibility of commandeering and using an "eInk"-enabled screen like that used on the Librie.
• Read "Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong (suggested by Doug Rushkoff)
• Talk to writers about how text could be repurposed in public spaces.

• Pick a representative urban block and catalogue written text visible from the street (build a taxonomy of urban text)
• Continue working on a Perl parser.

• Ken Brooks of Publishing Dimensions (ebook guru)
• The Google guys.
• Any head of a publishing company that specializes in encyclopedic texts.
• Jonathan Safran Foer (see Pintchik Oracle article)

Description

• Text Liberation: A Brief Manifesto In Favor of Serendipitous Publishing (75k PDF)