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Phil Gyford gets it. He’s used the Guardian‘s open content API to produce Today’s Guardian, a site that takes daily Guardian content and compiles it into what I’d be inclined to call the closest thing to an ‘online newspaper’. It’s a pleasure to read through, and far easier to navigate than the Guardian‘s own site.…

Chris Ware’s cover illustration for the latest issue of the New Yorker is marvellous. Are writers more motivated by fear of ageing than those involved in other professions? In the New York Times, Sam Tanenhaus asks “How Old Can a ‘Young Writer’ Be?“. Do lawyers and doctors, or musicians or teachers, or butchers or bakers,  harbour…

“Whatever exists, there is always something vital that has to be added or we wouldn’t feel anything lacking in this world,” says Chad Harbach, one of the n+1 eds, talking about the origins of n+1 magazine. Authonomy is a HarperCollins experiment in crowdsourcing the act of unearthing literature’s ‘Next Big Thing’. Anybody can upload their…

This past month, I started a few books I didn’t finish. Reading is hit-and-miss like that: sometimes you’ll accidentally pick books that don’t interest you, or that you find difficult to understand. When I find I’m not enjoying a book, though, I don’t generally think, “Oh, this is shitty.” Instead I think, “Okay, this book…

Before newspapers hit the market, up-to-date information was not easily available. Newspapers offered an ingenious, cost-effective and elegant solution to that problem. Nowadays, though, the real issue is that there is too much information at our fingertips. News websites are pumping out more and more data, and forcing us to sift through the crap, which can…