On Fri, 19 May 2006, Brad Collins wrote:
Bowerbird@aol.com writes:
in spite of the tone of the article, the only "newish" idea in it is the notion that "books will read each other" and become synergistically interlinked, and that idea is one that is both interesting and perplexing at the same time.
how -- _exactly_ -- is this supposed to happen?
neither links nor tags, in their current form anyway, indicate an association between two external entities.
even the most basic of building blocks in that regard -- a clean "a.p.i." into the cyberlibrary -- is absent...
You're quite right. The article talks of scanning which is the first stage. DP/PG takes it to the next stage by turning scans into electronic texts, but there hasn't been anything that has stepped up to bat to take on the next stage.
It is quite interesting that Kevin Kelly has ignored Project Gutenberg so throughly since Conde Naste has taken over WIRED, and WIRED used to mention PG several times a year, sometimes even in cover stories or in their timeline of the greatest Millennium events. A friend asked him why. . .he said it was due to space limitations. ~8,000 words? No problem mentioning The Billionaire Boys Club eBooks projects. ;-)