The Tyranny of the Tidy. The Tyranny of the Tidy: In college, after months of being chided by my roommate for an exceedingly messy room, I finally silenced her by repeatedly demonstrating my ability to quickly and easily retrieve any desired implement from the clutter without leaving my desk. Trying to be tidy always served […]

When we have new business cards made at work, I'm going to add the title of Technology Anthropologist to mine. Thanks, Ernie! [The Shifted Librarian] now i know several people that are really just this, i wonder how far the title will spread

Multimedia Fun. Scoble provided links to two great videos last week. The first is a Flash video titled Marry Me (get out your hankies), and the second is to Monster.com's What I Wanna Do When I Grow Up commercial (requires Quicktime), one of my all-time favorite commercials. [The Shifted Librarian] movies , movies, movies

Columbia's Internet Concern Will Soon Go Out of Business. Columbia University will fold Fathom.com, the commercial company it created to provide courses and other material over the Internet. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Education] we knew this was going to happen eventually…

Affirmative Action For Blue-Bloods Comes Under Fire. Plastic::Politics::School: Democratic presidential contender John Edwards wants to end preferences for children of alumni at American colleges and universities. This may be an idea whose time has come or simply clever political posturing. [Plastic: Most Recent] well this is a sinker, in a country where people aspire toward […]

Hot New Marketing Concept: Mall as Memory Lane [New York Times: International News] well i would rail against the fictions of nostalgia and the constructions of social control involved therein, but i've done that elsewhere.

In computer disease, there is no Edward Jenner. Lessons from the Laboratory [The Register] this is a nice little article demonstrating the failure of the disease analogy

Mapping What We Read. Adina writes about some informal research done by Valdis Krebs that resulted in this diagram, which you can see full size by clicking here or on this gargantuan thumbnail: This is a rough-and-ready map of the reading preferences of the political left and the right. Valdis, who does superb maps of […]

[please distribute widely] Call for Papers – IR 4.0: Broadening the Band International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 16-19 Lead organizer Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto Submission site opens: January 15, 2003 Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2003 Conference Website: http://www.aoir.org/2003 | […]

Prentice Hall to Publish Bruce Perens 'Open Source' Books. Innovative content licensing seems to be catching on — even beyond the efforts of Creative Commons. Prentince Hall PTR recently announced that they'll publish a series of technical books under open-content licenses. Read the Slashdot story. Kudos to Bruce Perens for brokering the move, and to […]