Remarks
Reader responses June 18, 2008
Here's a quick round-up of reader responses to my recent Science Times article on Paul Otlet: Kevin Kelly takes the piece as a starting point for a fascinating rumination on dead media, probing the history of edged-notched punch cards and...
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The Web That Time Forgot June 16, 2008
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to visit Mons, Belgium, home of the Mundaneum, a museum dedicated to Paul Otlet, the great Belgian information scientist who envisioned something very much like the World Wide Web in the 1930s....
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TimesMachine May 21, 2008
I'm happy to report that one of my first projects at the New York Times has finally launched: TimesMachine, a new tool for browsing our public-domain archives from 1851-1922. The launch has been delayed for several months due to legal/contractual...
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A run on the printers April 29, 2008
Now I realize this is the kind of problem most writers wouldn't mind having, but my publisher has informed me that my book recently sold out its first print run. As a result, some online booksellers are now erroneously listing...
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Back in the fold April 17, 2008
Like many a boy of the 1970s, I grew up on a steady diet of Mad Magazine. As a 9- or 10- year old, I got maybe half the jokes. But I loved it anyway, and understood enough of what...
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Takin' it to the streets April 10, 2008
Now this has got to be a first: a mob of angry protesters storming the streets of Oslo to fight the good fight against ... would you believe, OpenXML? Steve Pepper (whose company I enjoyed at last week's Topic Maps...
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News maps April 7, 2008
My colleague Evan Sandhaus has been working for the past few months on a project to implement geotagging for New York Times articles. You can now see the fruit of his labors in the recently released Geographic Web layer on...
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Into the wild April 4, 2008
From a guide written for Masai warriors, on the occasion of their first visit to London: "You may be surprised by the number of people that there are and they all seem to be rushing around everywhere," the guide says....
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Topic Maps 2008 March 17, 2008
I'm looking forward to trekking over to Oslo in a couple of weeks for Topic Maps conference. For those of you who follow this kind of thing, topic maps are an emerging framework for organizing subject-specific information: “Subject-centric computing” is...
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Austin-bound March 6, 2008
Tomorrow I'll be making my long-overdue first trip to SxSW, where I'll be doing a talk and book-signing on Monday. If you're planning to be there and would like to catch up at some point, drop me a line....
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