Colorless Green Ideas

Essays on the use and abuse of language, & examples thereof.
Nov 30, 2000 · Post

Two Parallel Content Planets

With the advent of the web, there appear to be two parallel tracks for the development of content and ideas.
May 8, 2011 · Post

Time’s Inverted Index

(1) When robots write history we can get in trouble with our past selves. (2) Search-generated, “false” chrestomathies and the historical fallacy.
Jan 11, 2004 · Post

Tufte vs. Bloom

Thoughts on the work of Franco Moretti.
Apr 15, 2004 · Post

Finding Bartleby

A second take on the ideas put forth in .
Jan 9, 2007 · Post

My Palace of Memory Crumbles

A version of this piece was originally broadcast by NPR on the 26 December 2006 edition of NPR’s All Things Considered. It can be heard on their web site via RealAudio or Windows Media Player.
Jan 14, 2007 · Post

The Problems of Nomads

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Jan 8, 2004 · Post

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An apology.
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