Datacloud headed toward print
I've just sent the completed manuscript for
Datacloud: Towards a New Theory of Online Work off to Hampton Press.
The book and the weblog you're currently reading were originally intended to be pretty tightly linked, but the weblog has mutated wildly since then, so there's only a passing relationship. People often ask why I don't publish more things online in a "native" online format (that is, hypertext, I assume). Print media still serve a purpose, though, and provide a different sort of space for argument and criticism. It's not better or worse than online (or radio, or whatever), just different. So in a sense, perhaps Datacloud The Weblog is the same project, but in a format (and with content) appropriate to its own specific medium.
The
MS Word files are still online if you want to read the (uncopyedited) raw version; I expect Hampton will ask me to take them offline relatively soon, so get them while you can.
Posted by johndan at April 8, 2004 04:11 PM
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