Epistemographer

On Tuesday, I recorded an upcoming episode of Digital Campus with my old colleagues at CHNM and another “special guest”, Jennifer Howard; near the end of the podcast (now available here), I floated an idea that I’d like to get out in the broader online discussion of eBooks. I’d like to get it fleshed out [...]

originally published in a slightly-abridged fashion earlier this year in Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE, Vol. 27, No. 2. (2005), pp. 96-96 Earlier this year, O’Reilly Publishing introduced a new quarterly publication called Make. Addressing his readers, editor and publisher Dale Dougherty wrote, “More than mere consumers of technology, we are makers, adapting […]

I’m putting together a draft of a paper to give at a Yale Information Society Project lunch in a few weeks. This was set up months ago, in large part with the goal of forcing me to actually get down in tangible form a lot of what I’ve been thinking about and point myself in [...]

Something interesting and a little bit amazing happened tonight. Around noon on Saturday, Jeralyn at Talk Left posted a plea for help (short version: her computer was dying, and she needed a new one to continue blogging from the road). Among others, Atrios linked to her request around 8 pm. Between then and the time [...]