A variety of things to keep you occupied this morning:
- Jesse Kriss’ visualizes the history of legal music sampling (via Lawrence Lessig)
- The University of Pennsylvania offers “PennSound,” sounds files of literary readings (via Bookish, via Monty Cristo)
- William St Clair, author of The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2004), will deliver a paper entitled “The Political Economy of Reading” at the University of London on June 22. A sample chapter of his book is downloadable. (via HoBo)
- In The Chronicle of Higher Education, five essays and a discussion forum wrestle with the “impact of the Google’s plan to scan millions of books.”
- “Marginal Utility,” by Michael Gorman
- “End Result,” by John P. Wilkin
- “Stressing the Positive,” by Adam M. Smith
- “Stretching ‘Fair Use,'” by Peter Givler
- “A Matter of Continental Heritage,” by Jean-NoÎl Jeanneney
- Sylvester Stallone will direct a biopic of Edgar Allen Poe (via Writer’s Blog)
- Stanley Fish says composition classes should spend more time on form and less on content. (via Critical Mass)