Category: Required Reading

I like Caterina Fake's idea of an "Unordered List" so I'm going to be adding a bit more commentary to these things.

• Is network TV actually doing better than we thought? This year's upfronts suggest so. I'd like to know if "upfronts" have been recalculated based on ads skipped by Tivos and the like. Also, do products placements count in this total?

• Perhaps everything we thought about arts funding needs to change.
  “The real problem is the narrowness of the frame within which we think and talk about culture,” Exactly. (via Arts Journal)
• The Atlantic profiles the first Xerox Machine, "the device that birthed the Information Age." Just why I read this magazine.

• Legendary David Foster Wallace commencement address now available on iTunes.
  Just downloaded and listened. Required for anyone who feels constantly annoyed and frustrated by the daily travails of life. (via kottke.org)

• Book owners have smarter kids: Salon.com Well duh. Now stand aside and let the sanctimony fly.
• Efficiency and Beauty in an Underground Mountainside Hotel
  You said it!