January 2009 « Many Possibilities

Annotate-ipedia

By Steve Song, on January 22nd, 2009

Have you ever purchased a book in a second hand book store and found when you got home that the margins of the pages were crammed with annotations? A bit like the page from James Joyce’s Ulysses at the right. Some may be irritated by the spoiling of a pristine printed page but I confess [...] [...]

Climate Change as Terrorist Threat

By Steve Song, on January 21st, 2009

Harvard professor of psychology Dan Gilbert gave an inspired talk at Pop!Tech this year in which he asks the question “Why haven’t we rallied our collective power to solve global warning?” In it, he argues that global warming is not the kind of threat that humans are programmed to respond to. Like the boiling frog [...] [...]

Mobiles versus Laptops

By Steve Song, on January 16th, 2009

Cory Doctorow is one of my heroes. A great writer, an outspoken champion of the commons, and someone who is not afraid to be himself in public. I have relied on his ideas countless times in my own work. It is therefore a bit of a surprise to see him drop a clanger in the [...] [...]