Rough Drafts

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 [https://dylan.tweney.com].

John Patrick (formerly of IBM) posts his predictions for the next five Big Things [http://www.patrickweb.com/weblog/categories/internetTechnology/web_services_myths.html]in computing: Autonomic computing, Blogging, Grid Computing, Web Services, and WiFi.

Two early 90’s talks by Bruce Sterling: Free as Air, Free As Water, Free As Knowledge: ‘What’s information really about? It seems to me there’s something direly wrong with the “Information Economy.” It’s not about data, it’s about attention. In a few years you may be able to carry the Library of Con

Where are the really good stories in magazines today? The ones that make you say to your friends: “Did you see that story about X?” Michael Shapiro examines the attenuated legacy of the New Journalism: “I had learned the essential lesson of those who wished to make magazines a career: write to form,

Game, set, and match. [1] The Inquirer: Moore’s Law meets market saturation. “Today, accountants to video heads have enough horsepower at their fingertips to keep themselves sated. Why shell out $1500 in next year’s technology for a measly 3-5% performance bump on the most bleeding-edge applications

What would happen if the Fightin’ Whities met up with Blackpeopleloveus.com? Chaos! Mayhem! Rampant irony! The Fightin’ Whites is the nickname of an intramural basketball team at the Univ. of North Colorado. They just raised $100K for Native American student scholarships from selling stuff in their

Dickens’ novel Great Expectations was published serially starting in December 1860 — a new episode appearing each week, just like The West Wing. Now, in December 2002, you can read Dickens’ Great Expectations as Victorians did — except you’ll be viewing .PDF facsimiles that look like the original ne

David Weinberger writes: “I realized why I’m not as happy as I should be given the externalities of my life: I’m never done with anything. … Now everything is a goddamn thread.” My reaction: I think people do need to finish things, maybe not all the time, but sometimes. And they need to be able […]

WSJ CareerJournal: Demand Explodes for Librarians With High-Tech Research Skills. There’s a newfound respect for librarians — due mainly to the information overload that’s afflicting many businesses worldwide.

UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering publishes an outstanding magazine highlighting new research. Called Lab Notes, it’s written and edited by David Pescovitz (a BoingBoing contributor among other things). Cool stuff!

I’ve been thinking for a couple weeks about a Derrida quote that somebody put into this AKMA’s blog awhile back: “Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘here are our monsters’, without immediately turning the monsters into pets.” (here’s the link) One of the reasons I’ve thought so much abou