New York Times reporter Patricia Cohen has been on the “ideas and intellectual life” beat for sometime and has recently produced some excellent pieces of
Outflanking "the Human" with Information
Two stories in NYT today about data crunching. One on mapping neuron connections in mice to understand how brains work. The other on using statistics
Wikileaks Mirror Servers Geographic Visualization
A fascinating Google Earth visualization of the wikileaks mirror sites worldwide.
An Interesting Web Book "App"
What reminds you of what? When one reads — or hears about — a book, one almost unconsciously make connections — this book is a
Wikileaks Conversation Continues
Interesting piece in NYT blog “The Lede” about online activists’ response to credit card companies and PayPal “blacklisting” Wikileaks. The entry includes the YouTube “manifesto”
An Old Idea Wikileaks has Gotten Me Thinking About Again
I have been sitting on a thought experiment for some years now. Well, not exactly sitting on it — have written a bit about it
