Category Archives: Ideas

Nationalism appears to be on the rise again. But this time around, it looks to be a gentler breed: proud, pragmatic and less antagonistic. The world feels like it’s slowly congealing, not into a sort of gray homogeneous mush, but … Continue reading →

I imported my posts from the Future of the Book. I haven’t had a to chance to import the comments but I will possibly do that at some point in the future.  I’ve also been developing a new WordPress plugin … Continue reading →

I’ve just returned from an amazing trip through South America. I started in Argentina and made my way north, through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru, eventually flying back home from Lima. But now, I am back in the States … Continue reading →

I live in Facebook land, but frequent a summer home in the Wikipedia islands. Where do you live?

CommentPress has been getting really nice attention: Kathleen Fitzpatrick recently published “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts” with the Journal of Electronic Publishing at University of Michigan this fall. This connection, in CommentPress, of an experiment into the … Continue reading →

“What if you could travel to parallel worlds: the same year, the same earth, only different dimensions…?” That’s the opening line to one of my favorite science fiction shows in the 90s called “Sliders.” The premise of the show was … Continue reading →

Harper’s Magazine recently redesigned their website and Ben wrote a post that jostled a few ideas i’ve had floating in the back of my head. I posted this as a comment to his post, but I wanted to get it … Continue reading →

I love “This American Life” on NPR. I recommend most, so I feel silly highlighting just a few, but I have to start somewhere. Here are a few recent episodes I really liked: The Golden Apple: The This American Life … Continue reading →

From CNN: When Knut [...] was born last December, his mother ignored him and his brother, who later died. Zoo officials intervened, choosing to raise the cub themselves. “Feeding by hand is not species-appropriate but a gross violation of animal … Continue reading →

In college, I rarely locked my room and people knew it and I don’t think i’ve ever had anything stolen. I also know of numerous occasions when people went into my room, got something they needed and returned it when … Continue reading →