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Rivers…

By alex | Published: 10/12/2005
When David Sifty (he of Technorati) was quoted in the Economist as referring to the text of blogs as a “river of human chatter,” it sounded strangely familiar. Then I remembered Jia’s poetic construction in our paper for the Web Ecosystem (pdf): ” A single personal website could be submerged in a mighty torrent of […]
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del.icio.us for class

By alex | Published: 10/4/2005
I have just heard from one of the systems seminar participants (“seminarians” would save a word; alas…) that there is some consensus that the readings for this week are “on” del.icio.us. In fact, they probably are, but they haven’t been tagged in a way that is immediately obvious, and no one in the class has […]
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Making phones work

By alex | Published: 8/17/2005
Carolyn Marvin quotes the following account in her (excellent) When Old Technologies Were New about a farmer’s encounter with the newfangled telephone (p. 20): He then rolled up the paper and tried to push it in the aperture in the transmitter. Failing in his attempt with his finger, he took his lead pencil and jammed […]
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Informatics Book List

By alex | Published: 8/12/2005
For those who are taking my information science and services course in the fall, please acquire these books before the semester begins. There will also be a fairly extensive collection of articles I will ask you to read, but you will have a chance to track these down when you arrive at the university. The […]
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