CoFounder of ReddIt and others. (more)

Adam Rogers on SciFi for kids (Young Adult). Since the first Harry Potter hit the stands in 1997, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, and other luminaries have written books aimed directly at kids … and found that adults kinda like ’em, too. With review of China Mieville's UnLundDun.

Science Fiction. You're really supposed to call it "sf" now, but that's just too silly for me. (more)

A New, More Rigorous Study Confirms: The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel: most measures of Facebook use in one year predicted a decrease in Mental Health in a later year. (more)

Scott Rosenberg on How Google Book Search Got Lost. “You have thousands of years of human knowledge, and probably the highest-quality knowledge is captured in books,” Google cofounder Sergey Brin told The New Yorker at the time. “So not having that — it’s just too big an omission.” (more)

James Somers on Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria: Google Book Search. You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. (more)

Matt Taibbi on the New Book That Brutalizes the Hillary Clinton Campaign. If you're wondering what might be the point of rehashing this now, the responsibility for opposing Donald Trump going forward still rests with the (mostly anonymous) voices described in this book (more)

Nassim Taleb On Interventionistas and their Mental Defects (more)

Shel Holtz: Mastodon: Here to stay or DOA? (more)

Bell Curve of adopters/buyers of new technology, based on where in the technology's Life Cycle they hop on board, etc. (more)

Ben Thompson on Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly (more)

human approach to DRM challenge: instead of using tech to lock up the binary file, generate unique-to-buyer info in file "for exclusive use of (John Doe)" (this is mainly applicable to EBooks) (more)

Matthew Skala: Mastodon WTF timeline (more)

Jim Groom wants students to host their own WebLog-as-PLE at their own Domain. He has made this point before. (more)

EduTech, Reclaim Hosting guy (more)

Robert William Taylor (February 10, 1932 – April 13, 2017), known as Bob Taylor, was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. He was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of XeroxPARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC's) Systems Research Center until 1996.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scientist) (more)

Think Tank/R And D facility (more)

Aspect-oriented software development is a new technology for separation of concerns (SOC) in software development. The techniques of AOSD make it possible to modularize crosscutting aspects of a system. (more)

A Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) where I work on the Conspiracy and Democracy and the Centre for Digital Knowledge projects... My most recent book, From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know About the Internet. ISBN:0857384252 http://memex.naughtons.org/about (more)

Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing (more)