Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)
The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay...
View ArticleThere’s Something Happening Here…
With apologies to Buffalo Springfield: There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun book over there Telling me I got to beware… In the current issue of The...
View ArticleBlog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being
Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small...
View ArticleShiny new software…
Snow outside, snow on Matt’s blog, WordPress 2.7 (with a snazzy redesign and full support for child themes!), and Firefox 3.1 Beta 2. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
View ArticleThe Infinite Book: The Plastic Logic Reader (and the Real Nature of Books)
Jorge Luis Borges writes: When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and...
View ArticleWordPress 2.8 – Better Widgets?
Widget management is item #1 on the list of possible priorities for WordPress 2.8 development. Head on over there before the end of the year and take the survey to put your two cents in. For my part,...
View ArticleA Heritage and Future of Reading
Continuously, unnoticeably, at the rate of one second per second, the world turned from what it had been and into what it was to be. –John Crowley, The Solitudes (Aegypt) I have a huge store of books...
View ArticleRCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009
Links on culture, reading, and the web. Is blogging killing communication? » Principled Discovery – Maybe it is the nature of the blog and the internet. A million voices are shouting through the noise...
View ArticleFeedburning Learning
FeedBurner is a Chicago-based company, currently in the process of being Googlized, that allows visitors to subscribe to a blog’s RSS feed or email updates. When I find a blog I really like, I enter my...
View ArticleBetter Widgets with Science!
WordPress version 2.8 was released earlier this month, and whether the developers actually read them or not, I’m glad that they seem to have implemented my suggestions for a cognitive science-based...
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