The Internet Phonebook is sold out. There should be more copies in stock soon though. It’s a cool idea from Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost that curates a directory of lovely personal websites into a physical directory and book you can carry around with you. Each site has a phone number that, when dialed through the phonebook’s dial-a-site feature, will direct you to the right place.

This is paired with some lovely essays that give you a chance to feel the weight of( a corner) of the Internet in the real world. I love any opportunity to bring a caring side of the web out of our screens and out into the world.

That phone to web connection makes me think of net artist Heath Bunting, who created an online directory of phone numbers for payphones at King’s Cross Station in London. Visitors to the site were encouraged to call around 5PM for maximum effect and to connect with other web citizens that might drift towards the phone at that time.

The web and the real world are the same thing. I like projects that acknowledge that.