Epistemographer

I’ve been meaning to post something about Movable Type for a while – especially since I realized that people actually read this blog (when I actually post to it regularly), and that my words occasionally have an impact beyond what I’d expect.

Back when everyone went bonkers over Six Apart’s licensing scheme for Movable Type 3.0 [...]

You might recall the moment from last week’s vice-presidential debate when Vice President Cheney mistakenly referred viewers to factcheck.com instead of factcheck.org, as well as the ensuing debacle when, for days afterward, factcheck.com redirected to georgesoros.com. Conspiracy theories abounded, and I personally was left grinning in bemusement at the cosmic irony of it all.

Now, the [...]

No, literally. David Foster Wallace met George Saunders tonight at the Public Theater for a several-hour discussion of fiction, writing and teaching sponsored by HousingWorks.1
I decided to go (and convinced Jenny to come with me) based on my appreciation for Wallace’s prose – he’s one of my favorite writers, and reading A Supposedly Fun Thing [...]

Via Lessig: It seems that bloggers are organizing a free audio version of his new book, Free Culture. A list of who’s recording what is up at AKMA (with several chapters already available for download), and if I could spare the time from dissertation writing, I’d haul out my microphone and pitch in.

Today, I went to an Information Law Institute lunch at NYU. The lunches, coordinated by Helen Nissenbaum, bring together an interdisciplinary crowd of people from NYU and elsewhere in the greater New York City area, including one or two of us from Cornell when we can be in town.
The speakers were Anil Dash, of Six [...]

Via Wired News:
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected efforts by the recording industry to compel the nation’s Internet providers to turn over names of subscribers suspected of illegally swapping music online.
The ruling from a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was a dramatic setback [...]

Via Shay (who’ll hopefully get a blog of his own up one of these days), here’s one of those things that’s been buzzing around the ‘Net for the past few weeks. I hadn’t seen it until tonight, and it’s definitely worth a few minutes of your time…just stunning…
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~thon/SiCAF_Seoul_2003.wmv

Wow…these are great. Really really great. Just go see for yourself.
(My favorite is “goals“)

Hey, everyone – so Jenny and I wound up with two extra tickets for today’s taping of The Daily Show. We’ll be getting in line around 4:30-ish, and the studio is on 54th St. between 10th and 11th Aves, so you’d need to meet us there (they hand out numbers around then, so we couldn’t [...]

Saw The Matrix:Revolutions last Wednesday with Dave, Nina and Randy (check out Dave’s thoughts here, though you might need to scroll a bit). The theater was packed – there was a line to get up the escalator, so you could give your ticket to an usher and wait in another line, to get up to [...]