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Virginia Heffernan looks deep into the Twitterverse and doesn't like everything she finds : The "ambient awareness" that Twitt...

Two weeks ago I praised Harper's Scott Horton , who in addition to tiptop legal/political commentary regularly serves up poignant and re...

Wyatt Mason on outdoor springtime reading Leaves of Grass (the 1855 edition) : "Not least of the pleasures of reading outside is one o...

Ozymandias on the history of tabbed browsing: Observation: Multi-screen viewing is seemingly anticipated by Burroughs' cut-up technique...

I had never heard of this before : LIBRARY CULTURE INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL CULTURE Careful selection a. quality ...

Some people keep tabs open in their browser for days or weeks; I keep them open in my well-loved RSS reader NetNewsWire . (NNW doubles as a ...

Speaking of the social life of documents -- Clay Shirky shines a light I didn't quite expect on the roman candle that was #amazonfail ...

Always good to reread Brown and Duguid's " The Social Life of Documents ": In this way, document forms both old (like the news...

Michael Leddy pokes holes in Geoffrey Pullum's critique of Strunk and White , particularly Pullum's characterization of S/W's g...

From Polis Is This , a documentary about the great poet, critic, and Black Mountain college rector Charles Olson: ... I've said before a...