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.

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.

My interview with Cory Doctorow for SFGate.com has just been published. Take a look!

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.

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.

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.

Learning to manage information effectively is the most pressing challenge facing the technology world today. (the tweney report, 2002-12-13)

I’m relocating this weblog: As of today, I’m promoting it to the home page of my web site, https://dylan.tweney.com.