Comments on: On The Death Of The Great William Safire http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/ Tracking The Move From Print To The Networked Screen Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Richard Fink http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/comment-page-1/#comment-517 Richard Fink Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:06:43 +0000 http://readableweb.com/?p=1649#comment-517 @danny I didn't intentionally take it from any particular source. It <i>might</i> be original because I can't imagine coming up with that phrase without the pressure of having to "crunch" what my blog is about into a single tag line. And "networked screen" pretty much covers any device I might be writing about. By the way, the NYTimes had an article about publishers coming out with digital books that include video, calling them "vooks". Dumb, if you ask me, but that's what they're calling them. Cheers, rich @danny
I didn’t intentionally take it from any particular source.
It might be original because I can’t imagine coming up with that phrase without the pressure of having to “crunch” what my blog is about into a single tag line. And “networked screen” pretty much covers any device I might be writing about.
By the way, the NYTimes had an article about publishers coming out with digital books that include video, calling them “vooks”.
Dumb, if you ask me, but that’s what they’re calling them.
Cheers, rich

]]> By: Danny http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Danny Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:21:29 +0000 http://readableweb.com/?p=1649#comment-506 Richard has that term ....."the networked screen"...been used before, or did you coin it? It's perfect. Richard

has that term …..”the networked screen”…been used before, or did you coin it? It’s perfect.

]]> By: Richard Fink http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Richard Fink Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:46:57 +0000 http://readableweb.com/?p=1649#comment-472 @danny Thanks for the kind words. I think Bill Safire would have liked "web yenta" as a synonym for blogger. At least those of certain stripe. A far as "the networked screen" goes - putting print books on a Kindle or similar device (I own an iRex 1000s) has its advantages but the real magic happens when everything is interconnected. @danny
Thanks for the kind words.
I think Bill Safire would have liked “web yenta” as a synonym for blogger. At least those of certain stripe.
A far as “the networked screen” goes – putting print books on a Kindle or similar device (I own an iRex 1000s) has its advantages but the real magic happens when everything is interconnected.

]]> By: Danny Bloom http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Danny Bloom Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:05:38 +0000 http://readableweb.com/?p=1649#comment-467 Richard, nice goodbye to Mr Safire, one of the angels. When you wrote: "Here at Readable Web, I’ll be on the lookout for changes in language brought on by the movement of language from print to the networked screen. I’m just another web yenta, but I’ll do my best. New behaviors, devices, and concepts bring *new words* and phrases. .." I never had a chance to ask Bill what he thought about coming up with a new word for reading on a networked screen -- maybe screening, maybe screading, who knows that the final word will be, if any new word will ever replace "reading" ? -- but I've sent him a new email via the ethersphere up in heaven and when I get his answer I will let you know. I like your phrase "the networked screen". Nice. AND what I really like Richard is how at the bottom on your webpages here, you have brief introductions to longer article in the new two column format, a la Bill Hill's ideas for three column format for pagination, question: how in the world did you get your page to look like that? I LOVE IT! Richard, nice goodbye to Mr Safire, one of the angels. When you wrote:

“Here at Readable Web, I’ll be on the lookout for changes in language brought on by the movement of language from print to the networked screen. I’m just another web yenta, but I’ll do my best.
New behaviors, devices, and concepts bring *new words* and phrases. ..”

I never had a chance to ask Bill what he thought about coming up with a new word for reading on a networked screen — maybe screening, maybe screading, who knows that the final word will be, if any new word will ever replace “reading” ? — but I’ve sent him a new email via the ethersphere up in heaven and when I get his answer I will let you know.

I like your phrase “the networked screen”. Nice.

AND what I really like Richard is how at the bottom on your webpages here, you have brief introductions to longer article in the new two column format, a la Bill Hill’s ideas for three column format for pagination, question: how in the world did you get your page to look like that? I LOVE IT!

]]> By: Danny Bloom http://readableweb.com/on-the-death-of-the-great-william-safire/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Danny Bloom Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:05:02 +0000 http://readableweb.com/?p=1649#comment-466 Richard, nice goodbye to Mr Safire, one of the angels. When you wrote: "Here at Readable Web, I’ll be on the lookout for changes in language brought on by the movement of language from print to the networked screen. I’m just another web yenta, but I’ll do my best. New behaviors, devices, and concepts bring *new words* and phrases. .." I never had a chance to ask Bill what he thought about coming up with a new word for reading on a networked screen -- maybe screening, maybe screading, who knows that the final word will be, if any new word will replace "reading" ? -- but I've sent him a new email via the ethersphere up in heaven and when I get his answer I will let you know. I like your phrase "the networked screen". Nice. AND what I really like Richard is how at the bottom on your webpages here, you have brief introductions to longer article in the new two column format, a la Bill Hill's ideas for three column format for pagination, question: how in the world did you get your page to look like that? I LOVE IT! Richard, nice goodbye to Mr Safire, one of the angels. When you wrote:

“Here at Readable Web, I’ll be on the lookout for changes in language brought on by the movement of language from print to the networked screen. I’m just another web yenta, but I’ll do my best.
New behaviors, devices, and concepts bring *new words* and phrases. ..”

I never had a chance to ask Bill what he thought about coming up with a new word for reading on a networked screen — maybe screening, maybe screading, who knows that the final word will be, if any new word will replace “reading” ? — but I’ve sent him a new email via the ethersphere up in heaven and when I get his answer I will let you know.

I like your phrase “the networked screen”. Nice.

AND what I really like Richard is how at the bottom on your webpages here, you have brief introductions to longer article in the new two column format, a la Bill Hill’s ideas for three column format for pagination, question: how in the world did you get your page to look like that? I LOVE IT!

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