http://www.alexwright.org/ alex wright en-us 2008-10-09T13:04:08-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001175.html I was sorely disappointed to miss last weekend's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco, but I'm taking consolation in two NYC shows on my calendar for the next couple of nights: Dobro maestro Jerry Douglas and my favorite alt-bluegrass... Personal alex 2008-10-09T13:04:08-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001174.html For the past few months, I've been working with a team of NYTimes developers on TimesPeople, a new social sharing service for NYTimes.com. We just launched the service today, after a trial balloon period as a Firefox plug-in. This is... New York Times alex 2008-09-22T10:57:39-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001173.html On my recent trip to Holland, we took a two-day bike ride out of Amsterdam and up through the Dutch countryside to the little town of Alkmaar, nestled up in a far corner of Noord Holland. The reward for two... Personal alex 2008-09-17T18:47:24-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001172.html When he's not figuring out knotty IA problems for the Times, my colleague Elliott Malkin works as an artist exploring the intersections between memory, information and physical spaces. He'll be talking about his work at the upcoming IDEA conference in... Informatics alex 2008-09-12T08:25:47-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001171.html Although I've lived in New York off and on for something like seven years now, somehow I had never made it out to Coney Island before. So when I learned that Astroland was closing for good today - soon to... Photos alex 2008-09-07T17:20:19-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001169.html I'm off to the Netherlands for the next 10 days, paying a visit to Tilburg University, then catching up with old and new friends in Amsterdam before heading off to parts unknown. Posting will be light (as if it hasn't... Personal alex 2008-08-21T13:39:40-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001167.html My old editor and onetime journalism professor Ron Suskind is making another round of waves with his new book The Way of the World, an exploration of the post-9/11 world that includes an explosive revelation: a White House-directed fake letter... Personal alex 2008-08-12T07:30:17-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001166.html Travels alex 2008-08-03T08:45:02-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001165.html Lama Boy's hip-hop video spoof struck me as about halfway funny until the very end, when he knocks it out of the park Carl Spackler style. Gunga gunga galunga y'all.... Dharma alex 2008-07-29T19:54:43-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001164.html I'm looking forward to spending the next ten days out in the land of salmon, where I'll be holing up in a dorm room at the University of British Columbia to study with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. This marks my third... Dharma alex 2008-07-25T10:40:26-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001163.html Recently spotted in a SoHo broker's window:... Ephemera alex 2008-07-22T11:59:48-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001162.html For the past several weeks I've been heads-down on a project to develop a NYTimes application for the new 3G iPhone. With today's launch, I'm happy to report the application is now up for grabs in the iPhone App Store.... New York Times alex 2008-07-11T05:16:09-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001161.html Like a lot of people, I can't stand listening to recordings of my own voice (I wonder if there's a name for this syndrome ... Autoaudiophobia?). But on the off chance that anyone out there cares about this kind of... Glut alex 2008-06-30T17:59:57-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001160.html 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... Publications alex 2008-06-18T12:12:51-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001159.html 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.... Publications alex 2008-06-16T14:13:02-08:00