December 2010
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My Favorite Photobooks of 2010
For those who are interested, here is my personal top 10 of photobooks of 2010:
The Thirty-Two Inch Ruler / Map of Babylon by the master photographer John Gossage. Of course there is also the 2010 reprint of The Pond, but that was originally published in 1985.
Broken Manual by Alec Soth. A high-class photography book disguised as a manuscript. Soth’s previous books are great photobooks,...
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Open Source scanning with Ephesoft and Alfresco →
Wouldn’t it be great to have a full blown open source stack from scanning, through validation and indexing, pushed into the DMS and managed until it can be destroyed? Now you can, and Ephesoft is the entrance.
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Configuring Ephesoft and Alfresco for CMIS... →
This blog is the result of my discoveries in integrating Ephesoft, the open source mailroom automation, and Alfresco, the open source document management solution.
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Web Quick Start enhancements in 3.4.c →
Alfresco 3.4.c Community release has just been released, and there are a few enhancements to Web Quick Start that are worth a mention.
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Alfresco using Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu Linux →
In this blog post Tjarda Peelen uses Tesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to create an Alfresco custom transformer that transforms tiff to pdf, where the PDF has a text layer and can be searched.
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E-Readers With Color Open Door for Pictures →
Publishers are capitalizing on the iPad and the Nook Color by producing illustrated e-books, particularly for children.
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Top 10+ Photobooks of 2010 by Alec Soth →
Alec Soth’s favorite photo books for 2010.
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Selling books for a copy of Works by Lewis Baltz
Since I do not own a single book by Lewis Baltz, I thought it would be a good idea to buy a copy of Works, a ten volume set published by Steidl containing his most significant books. The only issue with this publication is that it is expensive. So to get the amount needed to buy a copy I decided to sell some books through online auction sites.
I have been buying art books since I was a student in...
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5B4: Best Books of 2010 →
Jeffrey Ladd’s favorite photo books of 2010. The list contains mostly well known artists like Lewis Baltz, William Eggleston, John Baldessari, Alec Soth and John Gossage. There are also a couple of Dutch photographers on the list including Foto & Copyright Volume 2 by G.P. Fieret, Quatorze Juillet by Johan van der Keuken and Florian van Roekel’s first book How Terry Likes His...
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NYPL Wire–The New York Public Library: 'Keith... →
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One living thing did not survive Keith Richards’ visit to the New York Public Library last month - an orchid in the office of Cullman Center Deputy Director Marie d’Origny. While Keef was waiting ‘backstage’ in the center before the talk, he unexpectedly lit up a cigarette in Marie’s…
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Google Opens Doors to E-Bookstore →
The Google eBookstore may be a boon to independent bookstores that have signed on to sell e-books on their Web sites through Google.
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