April was a fantastic month for the Periodical – we’re very happy to report that we exceeded our goal of reaching 60 subscriptions (we actually reached 61) and are delighted to welcome 23 new subscribers into this growing community. Our new goal for May is to reach at least 80 subscribers and we have a [...]
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Subscriptions Success + New Goal
May 1st, 2013 No Comments
Tags: Babette Wagenvoort · Kenneth Goldsmith · Raqs Media Collective · StoryCubes · the periodical · Warren Craghead
the Periodical Issues 1 to 7
April 30th, 2013 No Comments
Here is a picture of all the different publications that have been distributed amongst subscribers of the Periodical between October 2012 and April 2013. Each month at least one publication is chosen to be printed and sent out to subscribers, and we have also been adding other goodies sourced from our own archive of previous [...]
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the Periodical issue 7
April 26th, 2013 No Comments
Issue 7 is now out and this month we’ve selected something with a nod to the historical moment this month has brought to people in the UK. Tor Lukasik-Foss’s The New Worker’s Songbook Songwriters Workbook for New Worksongs! is a playful guide to creating your own workers’ song, helping you through the process of writing [...]
Tags: dodolab · Tor Lukasik-Foss · work songs
London Book Fair Special Offer
April 16th, 2013 No Comments
Since this week is the London Book Fair, we thought it only right we should offer something extra for any new annual subscribers signing up and quoting “lbf13″ – a copy of the fabulous Endless Landscape Magnet set (in addition to the Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition and the Social Tapestries : Case of Perspectives sets). [...]
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Modern London Cries
April 3rd, 2013 No Comments
image courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute via Spitalfields Life Artists Bookworks… Get Your Free Artists Bookworks… We’re currently on a subscriptions drive for the Periodical – we estimate that we need about 100 subscriptions to break even on printing and shipping costs, and if we can grow beyond that we’ll be able to explore starting new [...]
Tags: dodolab · professor starling · the periodical
Seeking Sponsors for bookleteer
February 6th, 2013 No Comments
Could You Help? We are urgently seeking sponsors for bookleteer to help us cover the basic costs of hosting and maintenance and to continue our programme of enhancements and developments. We’re looking for supporters who share our ethos and drive to help communities across the world benefit from the simple, yet dynamic, communication possibilities that [...]
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Workbooks for community knowledge networks
February 4th, 2013 No Comments
Last year Proboscis collaborated with a group of local people and a community run centre (PAG) in Pallion, Sunderland to co-create and co-design a sustainable ‘knowledge network’ that could help people respond to the bewildering array of changes taking place in the benefits system. Our project became the Pallion Ideas Exchange (PAGPIE) – weekly meetings and [...]
Tags: collaboration · community · eNotebooks · Pallion
Material Conditions: Epilogue
October 8th, 2012 1 Comment
Last December we published Material Conditions, a set of eight commissioned books exploring what it means and takes to be a professional creative practitioner. Inspired by the title of a behind-the-scenes blog post which followed, we’ve added a new chapter to the series, continuing a discussion which seems ever more relevant in the current climate. [...]
Tags: collaboration · creative process · eBooks · inspiration · material conditions · publishing on demand · the periodical
Recording & Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge
September 13th, 2012 1 Comment
This week I’ve spent a couple of days in Scotland with James Leach, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen working on ideas for recording and sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in the field through hybrid technologies and tools. We are taking part in a symposium at the University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea [...]
Tags: anthropology · collaboration · creative process · IPATEK · TEK · traditional ecological knowledge
Back to everyday life!
September 10th, 2012 No Comments
Its been a sensational summer on so many levels and in so many ways. To celebrate we’re offering a special 10% discount on bookleteer Short Run Printing costs from today until the 30th September (n.b. : can’t be added to any additional discounts or offers). Use this discount code BTEL-092012 when ordering. Why not use [...]
Tags: discounts · ppod · print on demand · special offers · StoryCubes
the Periodical : setting the scene #1
August 30th, 2012 No Comments
I am delighted and proud to introduce the first of our friends and colleagues who have agreed to take part in this experiment in conversational, relational publishing. They’ve all agreed to publish at least one eBook with bookleteer over the next 12 months which will all go into the wider selection pool from which we [...]
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Fresh look and new features
August 27th, 2012 No Comments
As some may have noticed last week we quietly updated bookleteer to give it a fresh look and to introduce the sharing features we announced previously. We’ve been tweaking and bug-fixing over the last week or so and are now very excited to let everyone know about it. New Look Home & About Pages We’ve [...]
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the Periodical, a manifesto of sorts
August 6th, 2012 No Comments
A number of people I’ve spoken to about the Periodical have asked me to explain more about the vision behind it. Why is it necessary now? What are we hoping to achieve? Why should people subscribe? So I’m taking this opportunity to share my thoughts, hopes and aspirations – both as a rallying cry for [...]
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ARCHIZINES World Tour – New Dates for Autumn
August 6th, 2012 No Comments
The ARCHIZINES World Tour is continuing its traversal of the globe, with added dates for Autumn. This collection of independent architecture zines, journals and magazines from around the world, curated by Elias Redstone, and featuring a publication from our very own City As Material, will be on show in various countries over the following weeks. Check [...]
Tags: architecture · archizines · bookleteer · city as material · eBooks · events · news
Evolutionary update #1
July 24th, 2012 Comments Off
In about three weeks time we will be making a fundamental change to bookleteer by enabling public sharing of eBooks and StoryCubes. What does this mean? users will be able to share their eBooks & StoryCubes direct from bookleteer users will be able to add tags to their publications users will have a personal page [...]
