aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing.
I had lunch last week with Mitch Joel (t/w) and Alistair Croll (t/w). Amid lots of brain-exploding chatter, Mitch had a nice idea: how about…
This feature-length documentary introduces viewers to Ken Carter, a Montreal-born stunt driver who made a living by risking his life. The film shines a light…
NOTE: best to turn of the sentimental music. (via http://twitter.com/ebertchicago)
Semi-regularly, mostly as a reminder to myself, I post George Orwell’s six rules of good writing, from his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language.…
I’m finally testing out posterous: http://posterous.com. How do you like it?
I have a post up over at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change blog, Sifting through all these books: …We have a massive and growing supply and…
We are getting to a point where all data – web sites, books – are accessible as raw, structured datasets, to a point when we…
I had lunch with Mitch today; he’s a new convert to Mac. He asked for some suggestions of software that I love, so I sent…
I was invited to do a panel on Social Media for Authors at the Writers’ Union of Canada AGM. Writer Nichole McGill was the moderator,…