https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco 2025-12-07T22:53:29+00:00 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n03/adam-phillips/in-praise-of-difficult-children robertogreco children teens parenting psychology youth rebellion boundaries change resistance truancy pscyhoanalysis behavior rules society conformity conventions cults childhood adulthood rulebreaking transgression law legal school schooling hamlet donaldwinnicott https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:fdab333cecc6/ 2025-04-12T22:06:29+00:00 https://lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever robertogreco thisamericanlife factchecking 2025 steveoney iraglass 2019 journalism storytelling refugees emilygreen 2020 adamdavidson 2008 alexblumberg 2015 danephron itzakrabin nancyupdike robynsemien sarahkoenig brianreed process mikedaisey apple china labor factories manufacturing fabrication robschmitz foxconn iphones iphone davidcarr davidzurawik eugeniawilliamson aesthetics conventions sarahvowell mikebirbiglia davidsedaris scottcarrier 2012 2013 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:460eecfabf1b/ 2022-12-09T10:23:37+00:00 https://harpers.org/archive/2022/12/between-chaos-and-the-man-the-dawn-of-everything-graeber-wengrow-the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/ robertogreco anarchism 2022 alanjacobs ursulaleguin davidgraeber waltermosley society civilization primitivism cooperativism anarcho-communism marxism capitalism economics praxis practice politics philosophy mutualaid behavior action calvinism cooperation freedom greed vanity vainglory morality chaos murraybookchin pierre-josephproudhon marshallsahlins thedispossessed socialorder human humans decentralization thomashobbes selfishness pride peterkropotkin reciprocity competition dominance power politicalphilosophy nikilsaval sigfriedgiedion nietzsche us marginalization humannature utopia orthodoxy sciencefiction scifi discomfort hunter-gatherers socialdevelopment arthurcclarke loreneiseleyinequality injustice efficiency productivity exploitation solidarity possession dispossession ownership governance order hierarchy rule complexity corruption evil authority obstructionism anthropology originalsin centralization standards canons enough structure expectation tradition traditions expectations conventions language state custo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d75c8407de79/ 2022-02-26T23:07:30+00:00 https://futuress.org/magazine/named-after-men/ robertogreco names naming science colonization colonialism plants tailinhares 2022 history brazil brasil indigeneity indigenous rules standards categorization conventions germany belgium africa southamerica rwanda botany futuress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bc3cd39d839f/ 2020-01-22T17:26:55+00:00 https://twitter.com/blogdiva/status/1219671145999425538 robertogrecoYesterday my colleague called me a ‘book murderer’ because I cut long books in half to make them more portable. Does anyone else do this? Is it just me? [image of three books, Infinite Jest, Middlesex, and Dostoyevsky (bio?), each separated into two. this is why, as am getting ready to shop book proposals, am absolutely clear my biggest negotiating challenge will be the digital rights to my books. my web dev skills COMPLETELY changed the way i write and think of writing. when i built the publishing front-end of my blogs… i did so inspired mainly by many of the tactics of the avant gardes, especially CONSTRUCTIVISM. because i see typography as an art form and art objects that can bring a different “something” to your writing ―not just in conventional syntaxes. think of e. e. cummings… THING1 is reading “House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski and am looking forward to reading myself, exactly because of what he does with typography and page design. but would love to see how they succeeded or failed to translate the page design to EPUB/MOBI in particular… [image of open pages from House of Leaves] BECAUSE YOU LAZILY CAN’T. most publisher just process the DOCX file to EPUB and don’t even have the decency to add a basic style-directive (CSS file) to it. for Danielewski’s book, if you’re not going to use Javascript, then you’ll need to use robust CSS3 and… Responsive Design tactics to make it a proper EPUB/MOBI version of the book. but that would mean, it’s only a translation ―and since that’s core to the plot, then that EPUB should be an opportunity to exapand the story, not just copy it. with a PDF though… you have 2 options: an IMAGE copy of the paper pages or an INTERACTIVE ⁺ REFLOWABLE version so we have 5 ways of getting the same book ported: 1. text dump (EPUB/MOBI) 2. image dump (PDF) 3. CSS3 ⁺ Responsive (EPUB) 4. Javascript ⁺ CSS3 (EPUB) 5. IA/Reflowable PDF … anybody who has read RAYUELA (Hopscotch) by Julio Cortázar, will see la mar de posibilidades that we have for going beyond the lazy conventions of treating EPUB & PDF as just copies of a paper book. this is why the DMCAA has been devastating… claiming a new publishing copyright for just transposing across formats is criminal. you should have something else, even if it is technically the same book or song. because each format, each medium, has it’s own set of challenges. just copying, as in transposing, isn’t it… so, if you are a writer, it would behoove you to learn about the principles of web development ―because all EPUBS are, basically, websites made portable with a ZIP file (EPUB/MOBI are zip files). notice i do not mention AZW3. they’re proprietary EPUBs ―and tbh a waste of time… all this to say: you wouldn’t butcher books if you had an EPUB version on your phone or a tablet. even a PDF image dump is preferable. am weeding my book collection. with ⁺50 yrs of books, i’ve noticed they’re not only works of art but cherished memory capsules. /fin”]]> lizasabater books epub formatting pdf bookdesign digital ebooks 2020 markdanielweski rayuela form constructivism avantgarde mobi docx fileformats css responsivedesign webdev javascript juliocortázar conventions syntax dostoevsky larayuela https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b64608e69ae/ 2020-01-08T10:37:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/keguro_/status/1214833773029871616 robertogreco kaguromacharia 2020 form writing howwewrite africa kenya knowledge knowledgecreation innovation scholarship academia highered highereducation deschooling unschooling howwethink standards standardization audience mood material prose conventions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a9f0ec81107b/ 2018-10-13T20:48:52+00:00 https://twitter.com/DrJonathanRosa/status/1050775828076720128 robertogreco jonathanrosa 2018 decolonization norms academia highereducation highered dispossession indigeneity reproduction colonization form writing labor work convention conventions method accumulaltion sustainability knoweldgeproduction https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70e578a20ea5/ 2017-11-23T21:32:45+00:00 http://some-velvet-morning.tumblr.com/post/166694371846/shinjimoon-nothing-could-be-more-normative robertogreco rolandbarthes literacy clarity writing language taoism zen buddhism persuasion authority authoritarianism power control tradition poetry prose canon rhetoric grammar rules expression classics communication subjection instrumentality beauty style genre composition correction improvement purification speech vernacular schools churches professions professionalism convention conventions trinhtminh-ha daoism zenbuddhism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:949d697f4808/ 2015-06-03T06:45:57+00:00 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-02/the-best-e-mail-signature-is-actually-the-worst robertogreco email etiquette writing conventions 2015 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:89d69a30f45f/ 2015-01-15T08:50:18+00:00 https://vimeo.com/111108854 robertogreco language english technology communication mobile phones internet web online tomchatfield davidcrystal robertmccrum fionamcpherson simonhorobin vocabulary lexicography via:Taryn howwewrite writing digital spelling spellcheckers change neologisms invention standards conventions https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:aa62681a1830/ 2012-02-21T08:45:08+00:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL16E261CDB64A51AF&v=CpAXqHmRa0E robertogreco design reading writing journalism history timcarmody toc2012 via:tealtan constraints billbuxton bookfuturism ebooks stéphanemallarmé paper 2012 media mediarevolutions sentencediagramming advertising photography change books publishing printing modernism context interface expectations conventions skills skeuomorph mallarmé https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:abfd549bf1a3/ 2011-05-24T06:08:26+00:00 http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2011/05/23/qs-great-spaces-debate-1/ robertogreco
We asked, after writing a sentence, should we use one space or two?

(To avoid bias, this post is being separated by lines, not spaces).

Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo argues that history says one space is correct, typographers agree, and it just looks better.

Engineer and the blogger behind Manifest Density Tom Lee says he thinks two spaces look nicer, we should be entitled to our beliefs, and there's mathematical beauty and information-richness in allowing more space.

Take a listen to the debate, and let us know where you stand!"]]> typing typography digital spaces 2011 conventions https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5bff23fdd62a/ 2010-11-09T04:43:13+00:00 http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-eu-spain-spelling-changes,0,4243956.story robertogreco language spanish español spelling conventions writing alphabet 2010 realacademiaespañola https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5700b96701ef/ 2010-07-22T04:34:50+00:00 http://educationnorthwest.org/resource/503 robertogreco writing narrative presentation literacy english education curriculum teaching voice conventions organization ideas via:lukeneff classideas https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5b7f24f40517/ 2010-06-02T07:54:41+00:00 http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/easywriter3e/20errors/ robertogreco english errors grammar highschool teaching writing reference punctuation correction conventions practice tcsnmy via:lukeneff https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e93c6cdb4035/ 2010-05-05T05:21:55+00:00 http://www.patfarenga.com/pat-farengas-blog/2010/5/3/make-math-illegal.html robertogreco math learning unschooling teaching linear conventions deschooling education schools schooling logic patfarenga linearity https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:092a55a6555d/ 2008-06-09T12:08:48+00:00 http://www.comic-con.org/ robertogrecosandiego events togo conferences comics annual conventions scifi festivals https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:023d34bfbddd/ 2008-01-29T00:50:11+00:00 http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php robertogreco layout webdesign howto html css conventions criticism critique webdev https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4f404fdfc0ac/ 2007-09-21T07:42:18+00:00 http://www.slatev.com/player.html?id=1182700684 robertogreco prisons food video schools capitalism conventions crime industry https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9c9be822ee11/