Sunday 2 March, 2008 For the quietude of Openned recently. Things are in the pipeline, things that consume time and energy like monolithic spaceworms. Did anyone see Duchamp on the Culture Show? I was heading to the wine bar at the time so I missed it. - Alex
Saturday 1 March, 2008 
'In a sense, Graham Rawle's novel Woman's World, just out in the United States from Counterpoint, is made for the internet. It's the sort of thing that you expect to see on Digg or Reddit: artist spends several years cutting up old women's magazines and laboriously constructs a 400-page novel out of the collaged shards of text. If the internet loves anything, it's novelty, and Rawle's work is certainly that.'
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Thursday 28 February, 2008 Click R;Fest to be taken to the Program of events. On Saturday some of the readers are: Rosheen Brennan Sophie Robinson Stephen Willey Keston Sutherland Marianne Morris Geoff Ward John Wilkinson
Thursday 28 February, 2008 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-rE0dNV5Bo&rel=1] This guy is off his feckin nut.
Wednesday 27 February, 2008 James Davies's Matchbox series has now been added to the Openned press. Get them while you still can. In other news, Graeme Estry's excellent food source Harpoon Crush has been added to the Openned reader, alongside if:book and the International Exchange for Poetic Invention. No Mr. Non-Crunchy Nutter.
Tuesday 26 February, 2008 Silliman: 'I can’t say that I’ve met any younger poets who consciously disengage from poetry’s existence on the net, tho I suspect some must exist. We are moving, faster than I think any of us (or me anyway) are conscious of, toward a day on which poetry is something that exists primarily on the web, having made the migration away from print & bookstores to a degree that right now seems unfathomable. Those older poets who currently refuse to publish on the web – they do exist – will discover soon enough that they have painted themselves into the proverbial corner. Far from being a “debased” terrain where works commingle without being presorted by “value,” the web simply is becoming the commons for such work.' Link
Tuesday 26 February, 2008 Monday 25 February, 2008 The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools: Read More: Link Thanks to Ed White for passing this on.
Monday 25 February, 2008 'The typophiles among you have realized that the “change” font Obama’s campaign uses is Gotham, designed by Hoefler & Frere-Jones, originally as a commission for GQ Magazine. Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones spoke about the creation of Gotham during our interview for Helvetica, and looking back at their description of what GQ wanted from the font, it sounds surprisingly Obama-esque. “GQ had a dual agenda of wanting something that would look very fresh, yet very established, to have a credible voice to it,” says Hoefler. It also needed to look very masculine and “of-the-moment.”' Link