http://www.alexwright.org/ alex wright en-us alex@agwright.com 2008-11-16T09:11:51-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001179.html A few months ago, Amsterdam-based information designer Gerlinde Schuller approached me about writing an essay for a book about so-called universal knowledge systems. The result is The World as Flatland: Designing Universal Knowledge, an unusual compendium that ranges across... 1179@http://www.alexwright.org/ Books 2008-11-16T09:11:51-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001178.html Under the terms of my employment, I'm precluded from making any public show of support for any political candidate or cause. So I made my best effort at feigning journalistic detachment as I waded into the crowd at Chicago's Grant... 1178@http://www.alexwright.org/ Personal 2008-11-05T14:49:20-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001177.html I spent this past weekend in Kansas City, taking part in a Foreign Policy Research Institute seminar on teaching the history of innovation. The organizers pulled together an impressive roster of speakers, including Professors Peter Watson, Dennis Shasha, David Hounshell... 1177@http://www.alexwright.org/ Glut 2008-10-20T05:51:20-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001176.html Thanks to the nice folks at Cornell University Press, my book is about to come out in a shiny new paperback edition (available for pre-order on Amazon.com). This new edition includes a few corrections and minor updates (thanks to all... 1176@http://www.alexwright.org/ Glut 2008-10-15T07:57:29-08:00 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... 1175@http://www.alexwright.org/ Personal 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... 1174@http://www.alexwright.org/ New York Times 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... 1173@http://www.alexwright.org/ Personal 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... 1172@http://www.alexwright.org/ Informatics 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... 1171@http://www.alexwright.org/ Photos 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... 1169@http://www.alexwright.org/ Personal 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... 1167@http://www.alexwright.org/ Personal 2008-08-12T07:30:17-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001166.html 1166@http://www.alexwright.org/ Travels 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.... 1165@http://www.alexwright.org/ Dharma 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... 1164@http://www.alexwright.org/ Dharma 2008-07-25T10:40:26-08:00 http://www.alexwright.org/blog/archives/001163.html Recently spotted in a SoHo broker's window:... 1163@http://www.alexwright.org/ Ephemera 2008-07-22T11:59:48-08:00