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Two Early Internet Theory Books
CommonSpace and FREE as in speech & beer, two Internet theory books that I wrote at the turn of the millennium, are now available as full-content PDFs.
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James Gleick’s The Information
My review of James Gleick’s new book, The Information, recently appeared in the Globe and Mail. Like all good storytellers, Gleick begins in the middle, with Claude Shannon …
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Goodbye To All That: The Death of Bookstores
The last year of the first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as the year the bookstores died in Canada.
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Status Update: “Literature for the Focus-Challenged”
Update lessens the bite of social networking economics by taking the names of the dead in vain.
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Ruby Slippers and Yellow Brick Roads
Was L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz an allegory describing William Jennings Bryan and the Free Silver Movement? The argument hinges on the fact that in the book, Dorothy’s slippers are silver, not ruby.
