norayoung.ca » self-promotion http://norayoung.ca At the Corner of Technology and Culture Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:05:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Sniffer, Nov. 4th, 2011: Trends in Publishing and Cellie Use http://norayoung.ca/2011/11/the-sniffer-nov-4th-2011-trends-in-publishing-and-cellie-use/ http://norayoung.ca/2011/11/the-sniffer-nov-4th-2011-trends-in-publishing-and-cellie-use/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:33:37 +0000 Nora http://norayoung.ca/?p=146 What does a physical object mean in a digital age? Even as many of us embrace ebooks, convert our music libraries to mp3s, or stream movies online, we still seem to hunger for the tactile. It’s something we’ve talked about before, both on Spark (for instance, in this interview with Mark Paterson) and on my podcast with Cathi Bond. This time on The Sniffer podcast, Cathi has a look at a new art/fashion-y publication called The Slant. What I find intriguing about it is the idea of paper publication as artifact. If you’re going to make something physical, tactile, you have to bring real value to the physical product – make it something that can’t really be replicated as digitally. Let’s see how The Slant does!

You can listen to the episode below, or head over to The Sniffer blog to listen and check out the links to our stories. Thanks!
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