I should have posted these almost a year ago when I read Woodard's awesome book, but here they are now. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it. It is guaranteed to reframe how you look at the country and help you to better understand what is going on with our current political situation.…
AnnotatedLinked: The New Science Of Networks by Albert-László Barabási(Perseus Books Group)
Highlights, Quotes, Annotations, & Marginalia Guide to highlight colors Yellow--general highlights and highlights which don't fit under another category below Orange--Vocabulary word; interesting and/or rare word Green--Reference to read Blue--Interesting Quote Gray--Typography Problem Red--Example to work through The First Link: Introduction ...the high barriers to becoming a Christian had to be abolished. Circumcision and the…
Earlier today I created a read post with some highlights and marginalia related to a post by Ian O'Bryne. In addition to posting it and the data for my own purposes, I'm also did it as a manual test of sorts, particularly since it seemed apropos in reply to Ian's particular post. I thought I'd…
Close readers of this site will have noticed a new item in the top menu: Books &c. That's where my book reviews and notes will live, and, in due time, maybe some other kinds of reviews. I promised I'd write up how I got to this point. Current workflow I am not going to deal…
Analyzes the differences in consciousness between oral and literate societies and points out the intellectual, literary, and social effects of writing
It's been on my list for a while now, and I have newer digital editions, but today I acquired a first edition hardcover of Walter J. Ong's text Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982). Something about it cries out to be read in its original print incarnation. It is in excellent shape,…
With the school year starting and a new slew of books to be purchased and read, I've been looking for books, particularly popular "classics" or "great books" that are published either with larger margins or even interleaved copies (books in which every other page is blank and meant for writing extensive notes). Within the bible…
This week John Borthwick put out a call for Tools for Thinking:
People want better tools for thinking — ones that take the mass of notes that you have and organize them, that help extend your second brain into a knowledge or interest graph and that enable open sharing and ownership of the “knowl...
I got stuck over the weekend, so I totally missed Kevin Marks' memex demo at IndieWebCamp's Create Day, but it is an interesting little UI experiment. I'll always maintain that Vannevar Bush really harmed the first few generations of web development by not mentioning the word commonplace book in his conceptualization. Marks heals some of…
For those who don't want to create a Zotero account for the tools for thought group, here's the list as of 2022-05-07. It doesn't include the tags, folder structure, or related Zotero meta data, but it will give an idea of some of the current contents. We're happy to provide credentials to the group for…
Realizing my interest in old and illuminated manuscripts, incunables, and drolleries is giving me ideas for icons, dividers, lettering, and illustrations for my sketchnotes process. These are the original (OG) sketchnotes. Today's #ManuscriptOfTheDay is Ms. Codex 1060, a calendar and lectionary, ca. 1450, and gradual from the last quarter of the 15th century, for use…
For all the help that Edwards has given scholars and pastors in the areas of theology, philosophy, and missions, it is probably due time that someone devote a doctoral project to Edwards’ organizational genius.
I'm particularly interested here in the idea of interleaved books for additional marginalia. Thanks for the details! An aspect that's missing from the overall discussion here is that of the commonplace book. Edwards' Miscellanies is a classic example of the Western note taking and idea collecting tradition of commonplace books. While the name for his…
Jonathan Edwards’s so-called “Blank Bible.” JE received as a gift from Benjamin Pierpoint, his brother in law, a unique book. Structurally, it is a strange animal. It is a small, double-column King James, unstitched and then spliced back together again inside a large blank journal. The result is a one-of-a-kind Bible that has an empty sheet between every page of Scripture text.❧
If one is serious about annotating a text, then consider making a "blank Bible" version of it. Interleaving a copy of your favorite text can leave massive amounts of space for marginalia! Copies of print and digital editions of Jonathan Edwards' blank Bible are available. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Bible-Works-Jonathan-Edwards/dp/0300109318/ Online: http://edwards.yale.edu/archive?path=aHR0cDovL2Vkd2FyZHMueWFsZS5lZHUvY2dpLWJpbi9uZXdwaGlsby9zZWxlY3QucGw/d2plby4yMw== Apparently one can buy modern copies…
In 1965 Ted Nelson imagined a system of interactive, extendable text where words would be freed from the constraints of paper documents. This hypertext would make documents linkable.
Twenty years later, Tim Berners Lee took inspiration from Nelson's vision, as well as other narratives like Vannevar Bush's Memex, to create the World Wide Web. Hypertext came to life.
I love the layout and the fantastic live UI examples on this page. There are a few missing pieces for the primacy of some of these ideas. The broader concept of the commonplace book predated Nelson and Bush by centuries and surely informed much (if not all) of their thinking about these ideas. It's assuredly…
Kevin Marks (kevinmarks.com)
Dr. Matthew Everhard (theLAB)
