June 2010
19 posts
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More On The Shallows →
Steven Johnson defends our digital age.
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“All successful revitalization efforts focus on upgrading existing local assets —...”
– Richard Florida
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“In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” — Phish, Columbia,...
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Here’s hoping that the next version of iBooks gets the PDF highlighting and notes that were introduced for ePubs today.
If I finish some work ahead of schedule this week, you all might suffer a rant filled with my hopes and dreams for notes and metadata on the iPad, tentatively entitled, “Content Creation, Not the Herculean Task it’s Made to Be.”
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The Velluvial Matrix →
Atul Gawande on complexity in medicine and healthcare.
Via Give Me Something to Read.
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Federal Regions
A smattering of federally defined regions of varying levels of importance.
The Twelve Federal Reserve Districts
United States Courts of Appeals
United States Department of Energy
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Census Regions and Divisions of the United States
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Mind Over Mass Media →
Steven Pinker defends our digital age.
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“In part due to competitive pressures, it’s newspaper writers and talk-show hosts...”
– Joe Sheehan writing about the over-interpretation of small samples in baseball, but it could be about public opinion polls, or primary election results or whathaveyou.
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Sexy Data →
Matthew Yglesias hates when people “…make sweeping statements of social trends without any kind of empirical backing or even recognition of the possibility that assertions can be verified or not through data.”
Me too man, me too. Link via Nyhan who hates sweeping statements even more than me and probably Yglesias too.
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The iPad Revolution →
This essay from The New York Review of Books is sort of a skeptic’s take on the iPad, ebook readers, and recent technological developments more generally. The overall tone seems to be intensely conservative to me.
I’m trying to imagine a person reading this and afterwards trying to decide on a gadget for dad for Fathers’ Day. A person who doesn’t plan a day around every Steve Jobs keynote and...
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“The democratizing tendencies of the Internet have always been overstated. To...”
– Laura McKenna on the evolution of the political blogosphere
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“[F]ind (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to...”
– Paul Graham on Six Principles for Making New Things
I think not such bad advice for research design either.
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“Pay close attention to Greece; at a time of world-wide economic upheaval, it...”
– Robert Kaplan - December 2008
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“Dallas Braden’s perfect game was thrilling. Roy Halladay’s perfect game was art....”
– Joe Posnanski on The Lesson of Jim Joyce
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Walled Gardens in Portland and Cupertino →
A Defense of Apple and the walled garden from Neven Mrgan. The post would make more than a couple libertarians proud.
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Libraries, Libraries, Libraries →
If they are going to make us use DRM, they’ve got to solve the library problem and create a model for genuine sharing.