Exact Editions Blog

Beginners guide to hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Maps and a timeline.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali contributes an essay on feminism.

Fifth Wreath (poem) by Richard Burns

Jemima Kiss, who writes on web matters for the Guardian, picks up on the Dazed & Confused launch, and ponders personal ads on the London Review of Books.

Dazed & Confused is the latest addition to our shop. The sample issue has:

Striking photography

Interviews with stars

Sumptious ads

Tim O’Reilly, who has been a stalwart defender of the Google Book Search project, has picked up on some criticisms of the balkanised searching landscape which is where various Book Search projects are headed. It is the isolation of these privately scanned book-content ‘silos’ that is getting troublesome to web idealists. Tim O’Reilly has a particularly clever but obvious solution which should win acceptance with book and magazine publishers:

Book search engines ought to search publishers’ content repositories, rather