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Gift Guide: The Best Books to Buy for the Technologist in Your Life
They make great presents, but books are deceptively difficult to give: You don’t want to buy some random bestseller off the front table at Barnes and Noble, but wander very far into the store an… more →
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NYC's Subway System. The Best?
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Last winter while visiting NYC we were crashing with family in downtown. One chilly evening after d … more →
Interview with Andrew Blum for Critics and Writers
wrote 1 month ago: Ever wonder what is beyond your computer? Andrew Blum journeys to the center of the Internet in his … more →
Why Net Neutrality Is So Important: The Telecom Industry And Monopoly Power
wrote 3 months ago: Yale Law Professor, Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair If you th … more →
Gift Guide: The Best Books to Buy for the Technologist in Your Life
wrote 5 months ago: They make great presents, but books are deceptively difficult to give: You don’t want to buy s … more →
Those pesky extinction-level threats
wrote 5 months ago: Soon there will be a new think tank in the world: the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER … more →
Review: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
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wrote 5 months ago: Still on track to read 100 books in 2012, A Superfluous Man has only reviewed through today’s … more →
3 Characteristics of Amazing Presentations
wrote 6 months ago: I recently attended a TEDGlobal conference. It was (as the veterans say) my ‘first … more →
Can You "Physically" Visit the Internet? [VIDEO]
wrote 7 months ago: Ever wonder where or how you can connect with people and information from all over the world through … more →
What is the Internet, really?
wrote 7 months ago: I love this video! It explains the physical aspects of the Internet. Sometimes we forget that the In … more →
What Is The Internet, Really?
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wrote 7 months ago: I’ve featured some fascinating ideas from TED Talks before, they always explore cutting-edge … more →
Create Read Update Delete
wrote 8 months ago: In this TEDTalk Andrew Blum talks about the physical backbone of the Internet. But probably even mor … more →
What is the Internet Made Of?
wrote 8 months ago: “When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum starte … more →
Andrew Blum, Author "Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet"
wrote 8 months ago: After you hit send on an email or search on Google or click a hyperlink on a site via Internet Explo … more →
Andrew Blum's New Book Digs Up the Internet
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wrote 10 months ago: The Cloud is Underground (and at the Bottom of the Ocean) Here’s an important new book for any … more →
twenty eight twenty twelve
wrote 10 months ago: On a sunnier day in the Marolles, Brussels Scarves and coats in July! Which hemisphere am I in again … more →
Andrew Blum on seeing, touching, smelling the internet
wrote 10 months ago: I attended one of the LSE open conferences yesterday evening. The speaker, Andrew Blum, an architect … more →
TUBES: The Light Under our Feet
wrote 10 months ago: Pulses of Light Beneath the Streets The internet has been woven into the fabric of our lives. Peop … more →
Learn about the Internet's infrastructure
wrote 10 months ago: An FC/PC fiber-optic connector photo: Srleffler Author of new book, Tubes, interviewed. The Internet … more →
Is the Internet going down the Tubes?
wrote 10 months ago: I had the good fortune to meet up with Andrew Blum at Structure 2012, who was in San Francisco on a … more →
