Blogs about: James Gleick
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The Word, The Information, and The Bit (PDF)
My recent blog series which began with the blog The Word, The Information and The Bit (I) is now also available as a PDF at The Word, The Information and The Bit (PDF). The blog series is my reflec… more →
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Destiny: there’s an app for that
wrote 1 month ago: Who Is Jason Silva? You may have seen the video, Radical Openness, created by Jason Silva. He’ … more →
Tarkovsky, Time, and (a Little Bit of) Tech
wrote 1 month ago: Russian stamp featuring Andrei Tarkovsky, available courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I’ve been w … more →
Watch. This. No Nearer to GOD
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wrote 1 month ago: Every time I disappear for an extended period of time I tend to return with a movie of some sort. We … more →
On Blogging
wrote 1 month ago: I loaded up my Chromebook with a sampling of PyCon talks to watch on a recent plane trip. Of course, … more →
Digitizing Cultural Heritage
wrote 2 months ago: Read together, Tristram Hunt’s article, “Online is fine, but history is best hands on,“ … more →
Thoughts on Umberto Eco's Inventing the Enemy
wrote 2 months ago: As James Gleick argues in The Information, filtering and search are now more important than the actu … more →
Monday | 4 March 2013
wrote 2 months ago: politics THIS IS WHY OBAMA CAN’T MAKE A DEAL WITH THE REPUBLICANS Ezra Klein | Wonkblog / The … more →
Genius
wrote 3 months ago: “Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not rea … more →
PARADIGM SHIFT
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wrote 3 months ago: “Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.” ― James Glei … more →
First Line Friday: The Information by James Gleick
wrote 3 months ago: After 1948, which was the crucial year, people thought they could see the clear purpose that inspire … more →
What to Read This Week: mystery, technology, and reality (so a little bit of everything)
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wrote 3 months ago: Looking for some books to read this week? Well, here are a few I’ve added to my to-read list … more →
The Influence of Rocks on Water
wrote 4 months ago: Potential StillWalk - the other day I took a walk down a footpath I hadn’t been to for a numbe … more →
Back to School Preparation: "Gleicked"
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Librarians of the Twitterverse by James Gleick | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
wrote 4 months ago: Librarians of the Twitterverse James Gleick For a brief time in the 1850s the telegraph companies of … more →
The Best Things I Read in 2012
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wrote 4 months ago: The following is a list of noteworthy things I read in 2012. Since I’m working on an Info Scie … more →
It's a long way to the destination
wrote 4 months ago: 415 miles by Google Maps is a long distance. And, mind you, that was using the “fastest path” per Go … more →
Chaos and the Atomic Swerve
wrote 5 months ago: In 1952, a paper appeared in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology titled “The Chemical Basis of Morp … more →
Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2012
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wrote 5 months ago: As 2012 fades into memory, the Chefs once again wanted to reflect on the best books they’ve re … more →
Science & Public Outreach
wrote 5 months ago: Working and funding science is not what it used to be. Even just ten years ago, a wannabe scientist … more →
