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Code and the American eating disorder

Google has replaced God as the Source of All Things, so naturally it gets blamed a lot. Nicolas Carr has made a fascinating and revealing analysis of Google recipe search results , and it is deeply scary. If Google algorithms can affect the way a nation eats, not just how it does its homework, that’s [...]

A New Model for Collaboration?

Apologies for cross posting. This semester I am teaching a course called “The Convergence of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Collecting Institutions” for Johns Hopkins University.  We just completed Week 10 of the 14-week course.  The topic for last week’s discussion was “New models and structures for collaboration.”  Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on my [...]

What’s on your summer reading list?

At the top of my list is Kevin Kelly’s “What Technology Wants.” This controversial book, which came out late last year, includes statements from Kelly along these lines: “We can see more of God in a cellphone than in a tree frog.” Jerry A. Coyne, a professor of ecology and evolution at the University of [...]

If (2.0)

If you can keep your tech budget when all about you, Are losing their’s; If you can trust yourself to implement Open Office when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their Microsoft Office; If you can implement a gestural interface and not be caught up in touchscreens; or surface tables. If you can [...]

Emma Chizzit?

I’m here in Philly at Museums and the Web #mw2011 and done with my presentation on the Transition to Online Scholarly Catalogues, paper’s here, if you’re interested. Although I briefly discuss it in my paper, for my presentation I made a bit more of the topic of economics in moving from print to digital – [...]