Delete
Just found a good interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, in the Guardian: In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of...
“Forgetting as a feature, not a bug”
Reading the great article but Liam Bannon, director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick, on forgetting as a feature, not a bug. His central insight
How computers and humans enact memory and accuracy
I'll save my current thinking about this subject for the book-- I'm trying to explain how our interactions with computers, and the language we employ when talking about
Frustration in computers
If you were looking for a subject where most people would think, "I live it, so tell me why I have to dive into the scholarly literature on
Library as Incubator: Do we really need more collaborative spaces?
Via Ariel Aberg-Riger's Twitter feed, I came across the Library as Incubator Project, a collaboration that "highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together:" At a
My life these days, as reflected by my bookshelf
This pretty much covers it. via flickr The hard-to-see book on the left is Susan Greenfield's ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century; on the right, Steven
Police cruisers and distracted driving
From the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, in an article about an accident involving a state tropper who appears to have been using his car's laptop just before the crash: Distracted
Neil Gabler on the post-idea society
A provocative... well, idea... in a recent New York Times piece: [W]e are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that
Geoffrey Nunberg on Google Books, metadata, and scholarship
In the Chronicle of Higher Education, Geoffrey Nunberg (of the Nunberg Error) has a long piece about Google Books' botching of metadata, and what how it affects the
Alan Jacobs on reading
I just came across this City Journal review of Alan Jacobs' new book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction: “The one prudence in life is