metadata and our discontents
See that? Huge spike on the word “internet” in . . . 1903. Natalie Binder explains why Google’s...
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getting started with Ngrams
Ben Schmidt writes the smartest thing I’ve yet seen about Google’s Ngram project: But for now: it’s...
opting out of the monopolies
At the Technology Liberation Front, Adam Thierer has been reviewing, in installments, Tim Wu’s new book The Master...
ad (non)sense
Micah White is upset: The vast library that is the internet is flooded with so many advertisements that many people...
creepy lines (and those who draw them)
Follow-up to this post: The end of the interview turned to the future of technology. When Bennet asked about the...
dragged back into the maw of the Beast
I think I’m re-Googled. My escape attempt has, I fear, failed. Mail is the main issue. Fastmail is a fine email...
Facing Facebook lock-in
A long time ago (in internet terms anyway) I explained why I was an early adopter and then an early abandoner of...
and now we’re done with the medical stuff
Regular Text-Patterns-style posting will resume on Monday. But one note quickly: I find myself so overwhelmed with...
the World Brain
Quotes and links at least I can do. The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made...
a report on progressive emancipation
So, how’s my little Google boycott going? It’s a work in progress. I have ditched Gmail — though I admit, I had a...