“There is a tremendous opportunity for book designers and software engineers to figure out what our digital book procession should be. There’s clearly something lost when you’re thrown into a text without context — but how should that context be delivered? What ‘function’ should a cover serve in the digital book space? And even: What is the cover?”
this is testing to see whether this works.
Luke Wroblewski’s list of RESS resources for multi-device design.
Richard Beck gives wonderful insights into atonement metaphors in the Bible in general, and how we’ve treated them wrong, and then goes into a specific one that Augustine used for Christus Victor. “Maybe there are mousetraps all around us.”
It’s a crazy reversal. In Chapter 6 Isaiah makes himself radically available to God. “Here am I,” he says to God. But in Chapter 58 this flips. There it is God becoming radically available to us. “Here am I,” God says.
And when does this happen? It happens when God’s people engage in true worship, when our fasting becomes connected with loosing the chains of injustice, sharing food with the hungry, providing shelter for the homeless and clothing the naked.
“When theology and doctrine become separated from emotion we end up with something dysfunctional and even monstrous. A theology or doctrinal system that has become decoupled from emotion is going to look emotionally stunted and even inhuman.”
“All this makes sense if Jesus is, in his very person, the Jubilee. Forgiveness—releasing those in debt—is what the Jubilee was all about. To experience the Jubilee is to have your debts forgiven. And that’s what Jesus did wherever he went. He brought the Jubilee. Jesus was the Jubilee.
And not just any Jubilee—it was and is the last, greatest and final Jubilee. The seventy times seven Jubilee.
And what is extraordinary about all this is that Jesus invites Peter—and you and I—to become the Jubilee as well.”
“Another way to look at book reviewing is that a book reviewer is a content auditor. The book reviewer’s job is not simply to offer a thumbs up or a thumbs down, but to examine the book’s qualities and draw out evidence that communicates why it is or isn’t worth reading, what it does or doesn’t offer, whether the content does or does not deliver on what the title and back cover copy promises.”
“The danger of writing off a website as “bad” is that making such blanket statements can obscure opportunities. That’s the kind of thinking that results in waiting for the next redesign—which, by the way, has no budget, is not currently on the schedule, and may or may not happen in the next three years. Many of us know from experience that there’s nothing sadder than neglecting your content indefinitely.”
With web type, it’s important to avoid faux bold and faux italic text, but we’ve never had to worry about this before.
