Writing tagged Notes
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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
To be honest I was a little disappointed by Amusing Ourselves to Death, although this may have been…
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Euro Foo Camp: Simon Wardley - 3D Printing
Wardley and his two Canon colleagues aren’t working in this (I think) but have been…
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Euro Foo Camp: Tomas Krag & John Naughton - Digital Divide
A small group for this one… John Naughton: Ndiyo — the Swahili word for yes. (Most…
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Euro Foo Camp: Jo Walsh - Literate Programming
Jo Walsh started a discussion about what literate programming is, how practical it is, what we can…
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Euro Foo Camp: Steve Coast - OpenTextBook & OpenStreetMap
Steve Coast (physics student at UCL) on OpenTextBook and OpenStreetMap both of which could do with…
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Euro Foo Camp: Matt Webb - Brain Hacks
Matt Webb entertains the crowd with his descriptions of experiments on psychology undergraduates.…
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Euro Foo Camp: Ben Hammersley - Better Living Through RSS
Debonair man-about-town Ben Hammersley talking about what he’s been squeezing into RSS.…
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London Review of Books, 5 August 2004
Contents page online here Only one review really grabbed me this issue, which I paraphrase here.…
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The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
I read this when it was a series of columns in the Independent on Sunday. Nice to read it again.…
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London Review of Books, 22 July 2004
Contents page online here ‘Stainless Splendour’ by Stefan Collini It’s not just…
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London Review of Books, 8 July 2004
Contents page online here ‘Reasons to Be Miserable‘ by James Meek Lengthy quotes, but…
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo by Saskia Sassen
While the book is undoubtedly oriented around cities, very little of it is about the structure or…
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The Balkans by Mark Mazower
The fact that the recent troubles in the area only get a couple of the 135 pages shows what a…
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger
I never expect much from net-related books, assuming I’ll have heard it all before elsewhere.…
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
Reading this for the first time, ten years after publication, it’s a mix of comfortingly…