Subject/Object

As you all may have noticed I have had this site for a while. In fact, I have had some kind of web presence for almost ten years now. Most of you have stumbled here from the Class List, but if you feel like reading past entries, please do so. And if anyone is interested in starting Free Culture Toronto with me, give me a shout.

It has been a busy couple of weeks, but I am glad that the work for this course over the next 2 or 3 is really nothing. I hope to write about my classes later (particularly Book History and Print Culture) when I get the time, maybe when I am at work at Autoshare here in Toronto.

PS: If you don’t allow all people to comment on your Blogger blog, not just Blogger users, I can’t talk about what you are saying, which I have just tried to do to like a dozen people the last half hour.

Does anyone else find it ironic that Google is promoting Banned Books Week?

Now Google has joined the party [party?]. At google.com/bannedbooks, you can use Google Book Search to explore some of the best novels of the 20th century which have been challenged or banned.

Oh really? Google, your left hand promotes “Celebrate your freedom to read”, while your other denies the same rights to the Chinese as you censor your search results.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. D. Salinger? Can you get Orwell down from the shelf for me, Big Brother?