Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Paper magazines seem to pile up unread at home. I'm better at keeping up with online news/research. I can tag and point others to online sources, after all. I've been considering letting my ACM* membership lapse for a while, at least partly due to guilt over unread ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
It's bad, because it slows me down. But it's good, because there are some good quotes in there. Today's best:
Some men, in order to prevent the supposed intentions of their adversaries, have committed the most enormous cruelties — Clearchus, in Xenophon
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and willingness to work with libraries, and above-average books reviews from LT members, and book-based discussions (easy to find and see updates on discussions of ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I renewed a couple of library books online today, and discovered that my county library system is starting to get into social software more: an anonymous (not just pseudonymous) no-comments librarian blog (sigh), and RSS. I think it's nifty that one can subscribe to feeds of ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Regarding my One Laptop Per Child entry, I know some folks are skeptical about the value of this project. I don't mind skeptics. Healthy skepticism is useful. I do wish the naysayers who seem to imagine OLPC is going to pitchfork laptops at people would go and read up on ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I've been following the development of One Laptop Per Child with interest, even before I saw one up close in April. I like their Learning Vision, their open source approach to the hardware, software and content (freedom to tinker), and the hardware features (designed to be durable and useful ...
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