Next trick: doing this on the highway at 100km/h.. Gary Turner has put together something I want. The Geek Gene explains it. [The Doc Searls Weblog] cool toy!

Reasons not to become a scientist. On the heels of my previous post Are doctorates worthwhile? comes Don't Become a Scientist!, another rather dispiriting view of why science today might not be the best spot for bright young people to settle into. I became a scientist in order to have the freedom to work on […]

The Language of Imperialism. The Language of Imperialism I am finding it fascinating to learn the Dutch language. Especially fascinating is how perfectly bi-lingual so many Dutch people are. And amazingly, there are so many Americans who seem to think than's just fine and why shouldn't they be? And these same folks would figure, why […]

The Imperialism of Language. The Imperialism of Language I got some interesting email responses to my post yesterday, “The Language of Imperialism” that got me thinking. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, or making me look at any issue from a different point of view — Tom from Denver wrote: > [After […]

A bit of irony. My grad school advice must have picked up some serious Googlejuice lately, because I am getting a ton of email about it. Much—all right, all—of this email asks my advice. Er, this is, to put it mildly, slightly strange. Guys? Gals? I’m the one who crapped out, remember? Failed? Crawled… [Caveat […]

Just Build It. Wise words from Duncan Mackenzie:Stop debating this issue; pick a language and build something… you'll feel better…. [Incessant Ramblings] this is frequently my approach. Today i was talking with Len Hatfield about the CATH's watermark project and i told him, you know it doesn't matter who has done what before, if you […]

the glue factory. From today’s dive into mark: In the future, there will be so much open source software available, programmers will be… [mamamusings] teaching this isn't teaching programming, it is teaching philosophy and understanding. more or less it is 'all i learned about data i learned from wittgenstein'

The Blake Archive's Archive. The Blake Archive's internal project records, now on file at the amazing Charles Babbage Institute: The bulk of the collection is comprised of the blake-proj messages (entire contents of Boxes 1-3, and Box 4, folders 1-17, Box 5, folders 7-12,… [Matthew G. Kirschenbaum] if i understand this correctly, this is moving […]

Thoughts from my first day of work. 1. I miss my iBook. 2. But I also missed Homesite. For my purposes, BBEdit is usable, but HomeSite kicks its ass all over the place. 3. Where to start with Outlook. I got so used to the many fantastic features of Entourage that Outlook (at least the […]

Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO, …. Koïchiro Matsuura, the Director-General of UNESCO, spoke at the recent Paris conference on Open Access. He has now put a summary of his UNESCO remarks online. Excerpt: “The new economic and technological environment is raising concerns about the erosion of access to certain information and knowledge whose free […]