Source.Electronic books have been around a long time now, but the Internet has been making them increasingly collaborative. Project Gutenberg (Gutenberg.net), famous for putting books in the public domain online, uses a "distributed" method of proofreading Proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. Modern proofreading often requires reading copy at earlier stages as well. (organized at pgdp.net) to make sure its content is accurate, with each volunteer proofreading only a few pages of each book. Some authors go further, inviting readers to collaborate in a book's composition. Economist David Friedman's forthcoming Future Imperfect "Future Imperfect" is an episode from the fourth season of the science fiction television series . The episode has an average rating of 3.7/5 on the official Star Trek website (as of June 8th, 2007). is online at patrifriedman.com/proseothers/fi/commented/ Future_Imperfect.html; the author invites your suggestions. Columnist Dan Gillmor Dan Gillmor is a noted American technology writer and former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Silicon Valley dot com boom and its subsequent bust. is doing the same with his book-in-progress Making the News, at weblog See blog and Web log. (World-Wide Web) weblog - (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. .siliconvalley.com/ column/dangillmor. Readers also produced an audiobook version of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture (Penguin), recording a chapter each at turnstyle.org/FreeCulture. |
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