For the next milestone in ON Magazine’s Web Timeline, I selected H.G. Wells‘ World Brain, published in 1937. Continue reading »
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30Dec
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18Dec
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee circulated a proposal to a few colleagues at CERN, stating that it “discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.”
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15Dec
Interesting discussion (podcast) between Roger Faxon, head of EMI Music Publishing and the Economist. Specifically interesting in the context of this blog is the comparison between our past collections of LPs/CDs and current music playlists. In the past, we organized our music on a shelf, pre-packaged container by pre-packaged container. Other than deciding (or not) on the specific physical location of a particular package (LP or CD), we did not have much to do with how our music was organized. Today, we are constantly organizing and re-organizing (or at least, have the tools to do that) our music library, consisting of a collection of digital tracks of music. Because these are basically pieces of digital information, they can also be organized within a larger library of all types of digital information. And of course, they can be linked and shared with other personal and communal libraries.
We are all librarians now. We have direct knowledge of and experience in organizing information.
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