11 | Groundwork | Four Observations: Memory

Friday, December 30th, 2011

Note: The five posts entitled “Groundwork” were originally written in 2009. See here. . We hear a lot about Moore’s Law and the doubling of processing capacity, but storage-density’s growth makes the pace of processor improvements look glacial. Cory Doctorow Tracking the astounding pace of digital storage figure 23: Memory of exchanges in a traditional […]

08 | Groundwork | Four Observations: Proximity

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

Note: The five posts entitled “Groundwork” were originally written in 2009. See here. . The Internet is a place. It is a weird place in which proximity is determined by interest, rather than a space in which interests are kept apart by distances. It is a place in which nearness defeats distance. David Weinberger The […]

Why I Am Not Worried About Journalism

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

I am not worried about journalism. If this simple statement hadn’t been met recently with so many questions from friends and colleagues, I wouldn’t have felt the necessity to explain it here. So why am I not worried about journalism? First, because I am a huge news consumer. The consumer of news in me lives […]