still reading, but

it strikes me that Lessig’s Free Culture reads very much like an oral presentation: many call-backs to previous ideas, often worded in very similar ways, and especially many repeats of his central claims or meta-claims. cf. page 139: “my point is not that the derivative right is unjustified. My aim just now is much narrower: … Read more

crystal’s chrysalis

Apologies for the late, brief post. Schedule willing tomorrow, I’ll update and expand this. I just want to say how – is frustrating the word? perhaps alienating? – it’s been, reading Crystal’s analysis of “Netspeak.” He just doesn’t seem to be describing, for the most part, the way I interact with most of my friends … Read more

fuzzy logic software

Stumbled upon this while I was trying to find a very basic windows tutorial video for my grandfather:

It describes a system called Gobi, which apparently allows you to express the relative strength of relationships between items in a tag list, and then sort through them by “focusing” on one or more tags. This updates the […]