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Moleskine Madness

Every once in a while I come across a website which opens a door to a new corner of the web. Yesterday while glancing through pages on how people organize weblogs, I came across a site which appealed to me both as a geek and a Luddite. The geek in me loves my iPod Shuffle, which sits next to my fountain pen. The Luddite in me loves to write in bound notebooks, but LaTeX rocks. I have wireless broadband at home, but not cable TV. (Imagine the 20-minute conversation I had with Time Warner trying to get a cable-modem, but not cable…)
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For some it’s the equivalent of Japanese tea ceremony. For others it’s a way to lengthen the life of their diaries and journals with the acid-free paper. Personally it’s for the love of books and paper.

I like your analogy with iPod. It’s definitely this: a community created around these little black notebooks made in Italia with acid-free paper.

Personally I use them as ideas and thoughts repository. It’s a way to develop my creativity. If I need inspiration I reread my journals.

Inspiration and creativity are not just useful in art; it’s the core of the new technologies and theories. There are other methods, but it’s the one I’m using with success: journals writing.

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