Rough Drafts

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.

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].

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 [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!

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 [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.

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 [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,