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Hypertext and the scholarly archive"This paper argues that the scholarly archive is going though a process of hypertextualization that is not adequately accounted for in theories on hypertext. A methodological approach based on Gerard Genette’s theory of transtextuality is proposed."
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Former Britannica editor-inchief Robert McHenry's critique of Wikipedia.
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Critique of Wikipedia.
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Response to Robert McHenry's "The Faith-Based Encyclopedia," a critique of Wikipedia.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online?1995 Wired Magazine article asking, "Given that the Web itself is becoming the sum of the world's knowledge, isn't putting the Encyclopaedia Britannica online a spectacularly useless thing to do?"
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Wikipedia, "the amazingly huge, wide-open encyclopedia project has become the locus of a new debate over the politics of knowledge."
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Ph.D.
I study people, technology, and the worlds they make
Month: July 2006 (page 1 of 7)
I’m back from the Yahoo design expo. It was worth the wait, even if I didn’t score any swag, and nearly pulled a Keith Moon on one of the exhibits. Pictures etc., to come.
[To the tune of Gil Evans, “Little Wing,” from the album “The British Orchestra”.]
I’m at Yahoo! corporate HQ this afternoon, taking in a little design expo. I’ve never actually been to Yahoo! before, so when I got invited, I thought it would be an interesting cultural experience. Plus the expo looks like it could have some cool stuff.
I’m trying to finish up two projects before I got on vacation next week, so it had better be worth my time. I got about four hours’ sleep last night, which is the kind of thing I can do only occasionally these days.
The instructions said to get here at 1:30, but no one’s here to meet us. Not the most impressive start. But at least I found the coffee machine.
I’ve got several del.icio.us accounts that I post to, and have long wanted something that would let me post to any of them. There are rumors that you can do this in Cocoalicious, but I can’t figure out how.
However, there’s a Firefox extension (actually it also seems to work on Thunderbird) that does it, and seems to do a pretty good job. Hooray!
[To the tune of Yo-Yo Ma, “Suite 6: Allemande,” from the album “Bach: The Cello Suites Inspired By Bach, (Disc 2)”.]
You’ve heard about the Wired article, you’ve heard about the book, now see the preview for the movie:
[To the tune of Sting, “If I Ever Lose My Faith In You,” from the album “Ten Summoner’s Tales”.]
My wife and I both got our cellphones almost two years ago, and both of them have recently been having problems. So this afternoon, I drove over to her parents’ house, where the kids were swimming; we bundled into one car, since downtown Palo Alto is always a Parking Challenge on Thursday evening, went to the Verizon store, and got new phones (and the various unfortunate accessories you need to keep them going).
Since we had the children with us, and since “children in a cellphone store” is the sort of phrase you normally imagine hearing when you’re telling a story involving bad parenting, some hilarious misadventure with a kiosk, and much apologizing, we thought it made sense for my wife to take the kids and get the car while I did the paperwork, then drive me back to my car.
However, the kids wanted to stay in the store, and promised to behave, so they hung out with me, while I renewed our contracts.
I ended up getting a Motorola Razr, with the Bluetooth headset (handy tip: looks like the phone and headset use the same charger, so when you buy them together, you essentially get a charger for home, and a charger for the offce), and between dealing with that, keeping the kids from getting overcompetitive over who would hold Daddy’s old phone, and dealing with the Verizon rep, I had my hands full.
We got out of the store, bundled into the van, drove around the corner, got the kids secured in their seats, then headed home, to more discussion about whose turn it was to hold which bag, me wondering if I could connect my phone to my Mac, and other things.
A block from home, my wife says, “Oh no! We forgot your car!”
Oops.
But the phone is cool.
[To the tune of The Beatles, “A Hard Day’s Night,” from the album “Anthology 1 [Disc 2]”.]
Josh Marshall, the proprietor of Talking Points Memo, kept his car in a garage owned by Central Parking. It was stolen a couple days ago, after one of the attendants left the keys in it.
It may come to very little, but Josh is blogging the whole thing. The company certainly comes across as not really caring what customers think of it.
[To the tune of George Harrison, “Behind That Locked Door,” from the album “All Things Must Pass (Disc One)”.]
Technorati Tags: blogging
Ah, the miracle of YouTube. I’m working on a redesign of the office, and was inspired to look for the classic bit in The Simpsons where Frank Gehry designs an art museum for Springfield. It’s there, but it’s a Spanish dub. Still, brilliant.
[To the tune of 2Pac, “Runnin’ (Featuring Notorius B.I.G.),” from the album “Resurrection“.]
Technorati Tags: architecture, IFTF, Institute for the Future, office
Building on Tim O'Reilly's idea of bionic software is Ebrahim Ezzy's two-part review of "third-generation" search services. These
are designed to combine the scalability of existing internet search engines with new and improved relevancy models; they bring into the equation user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user experience, and many other specialized capabilities that make information more productive.
Arguably, the collective intelligence and collaboration aspects have always been present in Google, but have been implicit, rather than explicit. Still, making something explicit can be very important, and the posts talk about a number of services that are new to me.
[via twopointouch]
Technorati Tags: end of cyberspace, search, social software, Web 2.0
If you’re not reading the RSS feed but actually visiting, you might notice the new Plazes badge on the left-hand side of the blog. This is the big version.
It’s a definite improvement over the old one: there’s a cool zoom-in thing that it does when it first loads up (you can hit refresh to see it again), you can size it any way you want, and there are a number of color palettes to choose from. Very nice.
[To the tune of Radiohead, “Where I End And You Begin (The Sky Is Falling In),” from the album “Hail To The Thief“.]
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Add REST: WHY YOU GET MORE DONE WHEN YOU WORK LESS to your Goodreads shelf
My books on Goodreads
The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul
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