A group of us are planning a tech talk in Wilmington on artificial intelligence. Next month or so. It’s such a compelling and many-sided and zeitgeist-y topic, I’m hoping it becomes, like, a series of talks, or a book group or a metaphysical club , so we can keep going. I’m peripheral to the project, […]
Category: Tech
Open Government book from O’Reilly
This book Open Government, which publisher O’Reilly released to memorialize hacker Aaron Swartz, is just a fantastic smorgasbord of writing about government and participation and technology, some of it dated or auxiliary but all top notch and thought-provoking. Particularly, so far, Beth Noveck’s chapter on deliberative versus collaborative government. Hope to write more reading notes […]
Business Journal: Pomegranate delves into eBooks
An item I co-authored in the Wilmington Business Journal about the e-book deal that indie booksellers, through the American Booksellers Association (ABA), have struck with Kobo books to sell devices and ebooks in their bookstores, focusing on local bookseller Pomegranate books: With the rise of the eReader and tablets, fewer people are reading physical books, […]