June 2006
June 29, 2006
Unplugging
To anyone it might concern, I will be off the grid from July 2-9 (on retreat, somewhere up in the Blue Ridge Mountains). I will have no access to email or cell phone during this time, so my apologies in...
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June 20, 2006
Transquoter
I've been playing around with Ted Nelson's Transquoter, the first working component of his Transliterature project, the philosophical successor to his storied, star-crossed Xanadu project. Transquoter demonstrates Nelson's vision for moving beyond one-way, Web-style hyperlinks, by letting you embed "live"...
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June 15, 2006
Little Green
While I was staying in New York last week, I took a tour of the Rubin Museum, where I met Chun Yu, a Chinese poet (and sometime biochemist) whose first book, Little Green, recounts her experiences growing up during the...
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June 9, 2006
Palimpsests and Page Rank
A few weeks ago I posted an entry about Eugene Garfield's notion of the "obliteration phenomenon," the bibliographical paradox in which important original works often get eclipsed by subsequent derivative works. The canonical example is Einstein's Theory of General Relativity,...
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June 2, 2006
Brooklyning
I'll be spending the next few days in Brooklyn, house- and dog-sitting for Ed and Lisa. I'm looking forward to reconnecting with the old 'hood (I lived here from 1997-99, before moving to San Francisco), catching up with a few...
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