Hamlet's BlackBerry: a new book by William Powers, coming soon, in 2010. A most important book!

What the blogosphere is saying so far:

Here's another recent take on "Hamlet's Blackberry" by William ...26 Jun 2009 by dan
THE print media will live on because of its limitations as much as its strengths, argues William Powers in Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal, the most-read report on Creative Economy in 2007. For concentrated reading of longer ...
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On Hamlet's Blackberry : Noah Liebman4 Jul 2008 by Noah
In his paper entitled Hamlet's Blackberry, he argues (among other things) that what makes paper so enduring as a medium despite decades-long predictions of its impending demise is the way we humans interact with it, and the information ...
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TechBlog: Linkpost | 6.20.200920 Jun 2009 by chron.com
"Hamlet's Blackberry" about Mr. Paper, and Powers says that Mr Paper is not dead yet.....yet! Dwight, it time and inclination allows, do blog one day on Beam's column on this. MIT's Technology Review with Jason Pontin is poised to ...
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On The Media22 Jun 2009 by onthemedia@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)
Finally, for a great essay on the question of reading today, look for “Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal,” by William Powers. Some interesting thoughts in it about the relationship between reading (and comprehension and memory) ...
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Northward Ho: "I screen, you screen, we all screen" - New York ...20 Jun 2009 by dan
His essay, “Hamlet's BlackBerry: Why Paper Is Eternal,'' was widely quoted by journalists, of course. Mr. Paper - he not dead, Powers wrote: “There are cognitive, cultural, and social dimensions to the human-paper dynamic that come into ...
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Media Critic Bill Powers on Paper's Permanence5 Oct 2007
"Oh, yes, paper's days are most certainly numbered... or are they?" Read former Shorenstein fellow Bill Powers' thoughtful essay "Hamlet's Blackberry, Why Paper is Eternal."
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Hamlet's Blackberry: Why paper is eternal « Eric Jennings11 Dec 2007 by Eric Jennings
If you haven't come across the article “Hamlet's Blackberry: Why paper is eternal” by William Powers I suggest you download it and read it. Although I haven't yet finished reading it (it's 75 pages long), I think that Powers' article ...
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Ink and Vellum: More from Hamlet's Blackberry6 May 2008 by John M. Jackson
I had a wonderful time reading William Powers's essay, "Hamlet's Blackberry: Why Paper is Eternal". I felt in the presence of a kindred spirit. In short, Powers looks at the proliferation of portable, digital media and asks the obvious, ...
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The Shakespeare Geek Blog : Hamlet's Blackberry4 Jul 2008 by Duane
Hamlet's Blackberry. at 9:01 PM · http://noahliebman.com/2008/07/04/on-hamlets-blackberry/. Thanks to Noah for this link to an NPR segment on the future of paper. Haven't listened yet, but it's in my queue. I love stuff like that. ...
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Paul Armstrong joins the former-editor club of Australia - Crikey15 Jan 2009
Powers is also the author of the extraordinarily popular online article Hamlet's Blackberry (75 pages long!) http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/research_publications/papers/discussion_papers/D39.pdf ...
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