DYLAN TWENEY
Rough Drafts

Rough Drafts

Essays and blog posts I've written that haven't been published elsewhere yet

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Rough Drafts

Information Awareness Office.

More info on Poindexter’s Information Awareness Office, which should be getting plenty of funding now that the Homeland Security Act has passed, from the Washington Post. (thanks to Dan Gillmor) “The Information Awareness Office, run by former national security adviser John M. Poindexter, aims to de
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Is God a computer?

Kevin Kelly has written a rousing, entertaining survey of recent thinking in cosmology, physics, and informatics in the latest issue of Wired: God Is the Machine. In a nutshell, a lot of thinkers — including Mathematica founder Stephen Wolfram and self-educated intellectual Ed Fredkin — are starting
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I am John Calvin.

“You’re the most intellectual and thoroughly intense theologian on the block. You know what you’re talking about and you recommend people to ignore you at their own risk. Yeah, baby, you know your stuff. You speak in riddles and confuse people for fun. Still, this hurts your social skills a lot… and
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Information gatekeepers.

David Weinberger reports on his talk to a bunch of librarians. The discussion eventually turned to “whether there can be librarians without books,” D.W. says. The librarians proposed a continued role for themselves as “gatekeepers of information.” Weinberger is unconvinced: If information is widely
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Nanowrimo update.

Since the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, I’ve written about 12,000 words of “Fatal Exception” – my dot com murder mystery. Not bad for two weeks. The first week went great guns, but then my mom was visiting, I got sick, and there’s that nasty work thing, so I’ve only written 2,000 words
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Success and how to avoid it.

I’m looking forward to the arrival of this book on the freelance writing life by Mat Coward: Success and How to Avoid It. Here’s an excerpt . Said excerpt is formatted, annoyingly, in tiny un-resizable white type on a black background — I had to copy it and paste it into Word in order to […]
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MIT’s DSpace.

MIT and HP this week unveiled a digital library project called DSpace. The system is designed to be a manageable repository for research material, such as conference papers, technical reports, and other kinds of media. “Preserving data in an accessible manner is increasingly becoming a problem for a
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