Mining the catalog
RLG's RedLightGreen Project Mining the Catalog In this report: Getting results What students want Delivering the goods Catalogs: The next […]
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Down and out.
Science fiction writer, EFF evangelist, BoingBoing blogger, and former dot-commie Cory Doctorow has just published his first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
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Magic and technology.
Sci fi writer David Brin looks at J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings through the lens of Romanticism vs. the Enlightenment, nostalgia vs. optimism. And Jakob Nielsen looks at computer tech through the lens of Harry Potter.
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Library lookup.
I’m a jaded tech journalist. It’s not often that a new Internet service can actually make me excited. But last week I discovered one that had me grinning all afternoon.
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Less is Moore.
Learning to manage information effectively is the most pressing challenge facing the technology world today. (the tweney report, 2002-12-13)
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Pulling up stakes.
I’m relocating this weblog: As of today, I’m promoting it to the home page of my web site, https://dylan.tweney.com.
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Does Moore’s Law still hold true?
You don’t have to be a software programmer to be familiar with the principle. Since the early 1970s, Moore’s Law
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Less is Moore.
I was watching “A Beautiful Mind” recently and was struck how much the mathematician John Nash’s schizophrenia, as portrayed in
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The next five Big Things.
John Patrick (formerly of IBM) posts his predictions for the next five Big Things in computing: Autonomic computing, Blogging, Grid Computing, Web Services, and WiFi.
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Two by Sterling.
Two early 90’s talks by Bruce Sterling: Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge: ‘What’s information really about?