from the event e-mail:
"David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas: ‘Messiness as a Virtue‘
Wednesday, May 3, 6 pm
Berkman Conference Room
1587 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
It’s been our assumption in our Western tradition that a well-organized system is a neat system with a minimum of categories, lines and exceptions. But that assumption about systems of ideas seems [...]
This description of actions Verizon took against a Boston area ISP that resulted in thousands of people losing their dial-up access is kind of scary. It’s a good idea to know your Internet provider, the intrastructure, if the ISP plays well with others, etc., etc.
I still have dial-up access at home. I believe Verizon owns [...]
I’m participating in the talk with Berkman Fellow David Isenberg about net neutrality. It’s being Webcast until about 1:30 pm ET: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…. Please join us. We’re also on IRC on the berkman channel on freenode.net. Berkman has posted the audio of the talk and the slides. (Note added at 6:45 p.)
One of my concerns about this whole [...]
Well, 13 is my lucky number …
Here are three from the latest installment of the Librarians’ Index to the Internet’s New This Week.
ISBNs, International Standard Book Numbers—a unique identifier for books—is moving to 13 digits instead of ten. isbn.org has more information and a conversion tool.
LibraryThing, a way for people to catalog their own collections, [...]