"[This book] embodies the Buddhist wisdom about change, life, and the
world more than anything written after the events of that day."
Robert Stone

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September 13, 2007

PAPERBACK POSTINGS

Coverage of the paperback continues, I'm gratified to say.

Kevin L. Carter, writing for U.S. 1, out of Princeton, New Jersey, offers a kind assessment of Watching the World Change in his piece, "Analyzing the Photos of 9/11."

VanityFair.com, the ever-reliable Web site, provides a slideshow of significant images from the pages of the book, including this arresting image by photographer Rob Howard who happened to lean out his window with a medium-format camera at the very instant the second plane made its fatal approach toward with the south tower.

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PHOTO BY ROB HOWARD

And then, in its efforts to disseminate online versions of every morsel of media, unfiltered, YouTube has posted an entire 40-plus-minute talk I gave at Google's New York headquarters -- warts and all, quite literally. Tell a friend or two.

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GOOGLE-GRAB OF YOURS TRULY

I have a new theory, germinated just now. I call it Repurposing Calculus. In the mathematics of Repurposing Calculus, the above clip is a Derivative 4: four steps removed from the original media creation. It is a screen grab for a Website, taken from a Google video, recorded at a lunchtime talk, about a book. (Since the book is about media, it could arguably be recomputed as a Derivative 5. And if you email me a comment about the video, and I post it on this Website, together we could extend the chain to a Derivative 6 or 7.)

All of which is a way of warning: We are perpetually at a remove from the spark of creativity, writing not books but blog posts, reacting not to films but to reviews, hearing not symphonies but random iPod shuffles. Our synapses are hot-wired to synopses.

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