Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

I’m only part way through Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, despite having worked on it all the way back from Boston. So far, so good: fun, intelligent, and multilayered, with the science of Newton and Hooke present but taking a decided back seat to the intrigues of the royal court and the politics of the Royal Society. [...]

Second post-mortem piece on BloggerCon, trying to dive into the hype and document why I think blogs are revolutionary. Most of the discussion at BloggerCon, at least on Day One, focused on ways that blogging and the lowered threshold of entry to self-publication facilitated a more empowered, more aware population. I heard an emergent theory [...]

I’ve been sitting on a few short responses to BloggerCon since last Sunday. I’m not pleased with them yet, but if I sit on them any longer they’ll get even staler, so here goes. What is a blog? BloggerCon started by taking an explicitly technology neutral view of blogs, one that discussed the implications of [...]