There was a glowing review of Andrew Keen's book in 'Vreme' (Serbian equivalent of TIME magazine) a couple of weeks ago and a friend of mine asked me if it was worth translating into Serbian language. I told him it was the worst book on the topic ever and sent him this link to explore (links within links within links, in an infinite journey through the blogosphere).
So, he asked me - which book on blogging, New Media and the struggles of the Old Media would be the best to translate. So, which one?
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Excellent article by Jasmina Tesanovic about the final gasps of the Serbian Radicals (the right-wing nationalists and war-mongers) :
An interesting poll came out of Gallup yesterday:
Despite Kosovo Intervention, Serbians Favor EU Membership
This is a website worth spending some time on and looking at every page:
Belgrade blog, Neretva River and
This is slightly off topic except as it relates to translations into Serbian.
When I was working on my never-completed dissertation on Milovan Djilas, I discovered that his daughter from his first marriage, Vukica Djilas, is a translator and that she produced the Serbo-Croatian edition of Philip K. Dick's "Man in the High Castle." Whatever you might think of his political legacy, that's a pretty cool literary legacy.
Some other responses I got via other means of communication:
"Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky.
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"It depends on exactly what you're interested in, but good ones include The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich and The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper. Various books and papers by Bonnie Nardi are also useful. For a historical perspective, see Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word by Walter Ong and The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth Eisenstein."
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Is the Cluetrain Manifesto in Serbian?
http://www.cluetrain.com/
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The Vanishing Newspaper: Saving Journalism In The Information Age by Philip Meyer
And more:
"I knew I was forgetting a couple big ones. Try these books by Jay David Bolter: Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing; and (with Richard Grusin) Remediation: Understanding New Media."
And:
"And a few directly related to science, although the first is a little dated and the third is going to be dated soon, I think.
Susan Y. Crawford, Julie M. Hurd, and Ann C. Weller (1996). From Print to Electronic: The Transformation of Scientific Communication.
Karla L. Hahn (2001). Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context.
John Mackenzie Owen (2007). The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization."