Resources
Comment Press: An open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.
The Institute for the Future of the Book: A a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens. Theye are funded by the MacArthur Foundation, and affiliated with the University of Southern California. They are located in Brooklyn, NY and London, UK.
Nextexts.com: An information portal for the increasing number of research and design projects associated with reenvisioning books and the attentive acts we call reading. Smarter Books takes its name from the OCAD SmartBook, one of my collaborative projects tracked on the site.