My Dots for Monday, September 03, 2007

Steve Wasserman takes a look at the state of newspaper book reviews for the “Columbia Journalism Review” and finds that they’re broken.

Quoted: That book coverage is disappearing is not news. What is news is the current pace of the erosion in coverage, as well as the fear that an unbearable cultural threshold has been crossed: whether the book beat should exist at all is now, apparently, a legitimate question. Jobs, book sections, and pages are vanishing at a rate rivaled only by the degree to which entire species are being rendered extinct in the Amazonian rain forest.

A fantastic blog by Jessica Hagy showing off her “indexes,” mental models she has created of the world. Fun!

Quoted: GET LOST is a collective portrait of downtown New York. Twenty-one international artists were invited to create a personal view of the city and draw a map of downtown New York, uncovering a territory that is both real and imaginary.

Quoted: GET LOST brings together fictional landscapes, utopian visions, private memories, and obsessive instructions to explore Manhattan, its past, present, and future.