#publishing

Whole Earth Index — Full archive of the »Whole Earth Catalog« online for the first time

Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002.

Article from WIRED about this:

The Whole Earth Catalog was the proto-blog—a collection of reviews, how-to guides, and primers on anarchic libertarianism printed onto densely packed pages. It carried the tagline “Access to Tools” and offered know-how, product reviews, cultural analysis, and gobs of snark, long before you could get all that on the internet.

At the time of its initial publication in the late 1960s, the periodical became a beacon for techno-optimists and back-to-the-land hippies. […] The catalog also had a profound impact on Silicon Valley’s ethos, and is credited with seeding the ideas that helped fuel today’s startup culture. Steve Jobs famously referenced the Whole Earth Catalog in a 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University [at 13:08], likening it to Google before Google existed.

Links in quotes from me. (via Kottke)

Blogging-Plattform Svbtle für jedermann geöffnet

Dustin Curtis‘ schickes und bisher elitäres Blognetzwerk macht ziemlich genau ein Jahr nach der ersten Finanzierungsrunde einen auf Medium und öffnet sich. Medium wiederum hat heute seine erste Kapitalspritze von 25 Millionen Dollar erhalten, nachdem Twitter-Gründer Ev Williams die Rechnungen bisher alleine bezahlt hat. Scheint ganz so, als sollte man dieser Tage ins Publishing-Plattform-Business einsteigen.