DYLAN TWENEY
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Naked journalism.

Posting an unedited transcript, as I just did [https://dylan.tweney.com/2003/0128doctorow.html], is a disconcerting experience. It feels a little like taking off my journalistic clothes in public. But there’s a deeper reason why I don’t usually post transcripts like this.
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Transcript of Doctorow interview.

Cory Doctorow fans and others might be interested in the full, unedited transcript of my interview with Cory Doctorow [https://dylan.tweney.com/2003/0128doctorow.html]. The edited version of this interview [https://dylan.tweney.com/weblog/000348.html] was published on 1/23/2003 by SFGate.
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Rough Drafts

Quarterly envy.

Washington Post book columnist Michael Dirda indulges a fantasy that afflicts nearly every book lover at some time or another — the desire to run a literary magazine [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A977-2003Jan16.html].
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Googling the library.

RLG is trying to take some of the library world’s background technology and bring it to the fore with a new Web application (still in development) dubbed RedLightGreen. If it works, it could do for the library stacks what Google did for the Web.
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Q&A with Cory Doctorow.

My interview with Cory Doctorow [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2003/01/23/cdoctorow.DTL] for SFGate.com has just been published. Take a look!
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Published Work

Q&A: Cory Doctorow

San Francisco, California, USA –Cory Doctorow is a true believer in the power of technology. His first novel, “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom,” is one of the first works tobe published under the Creative Commons license — anagreement that lets people copy and redistribute the book freely so long
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Published Work

Mining the catalog

RLG's RedLightGreen Project Mining the Catalog In this report: Getting results What students want Delivering the goods Catalogs: The next generation For more information: RedLightGreen timeline Under the hood: technical details Glossary of terms What happens when you take a massive database of bibli
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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 [http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/12/17/tolkien_brin/index.html?x]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 [https://dylan.tweney.com].
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