No maps for these territories

I listen to a lot of new music — in large part due to my beloved KEXP – but rarely make note of any of it. So for the end of the year, here are five new albums (plus two from 2009 and three older honorable mentions, but hey, who’s counting) that I spent a [...]

I am happy to finally send out the announcements for a little event I and several others have been working on for a while. You’re invited! Tell your friends! ——- The San Francisco get together to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary is finally coming together! Please join us for the (1st?) West Coast Wiki Conference, on [...]

The curiously brave people, who, in the face of the dire threat of DisRuption, nonetheless post BrilliantProse (and, sometimes, PatentNonsense) on [[Wikipedia]]. This description of Wikipedians comes from early 2001, when the project was just getting started. It is one of the best descriptions of Wikipedia editors I think I’ve ever read. This description, and [...]

Sometimes — generally when I should be doing something more productive, like sleeping — I like to think about big systems at scale, and the difference large numbers of people taking small actions would make on any given problem. It’s true that big systems can be made through small actions, a truth that has not [...]