[2b2k] Russell on knowledge
Bertrand Russell on knowledge for the Encyclopedia Brittanica: [A]t first sight it might be thought that knowledge might be defined as belief which is in agreement with the facts. The trouble is that...
View ArticleDoes the moral universe arc?
“The arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice.” Does it? That saying was of course made famous by Martin Luther King who put it between quotation marks to indicate that it was not...
View ArticleRestoring the Network of Bloggers
It’s good to have Hoder — Hossein Derakhshan— back. After spending six years in an Iranian jail, his voice is stronger than ever. The changes he sees in the Web he loves are distressingly real. Hoder...
View Article[2b2k][liveblog] Wayne Wiegand: Libraries beyond information
Wayne Wiegand is giving the lunchtime talk at the Library History Seminar XIII at Simmons College. He’s talking about his new book Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library....
View Article[2b2k] Sharing the credit when knowledge gets big
The Wall Street Journal has run an article by Robert Lee Hotz that gently ridicules scientists for including thousands of people as co-authors of some scientific publications. Sure, a list of 2,000...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: The New Republic runs an article that does not bash the Internet!
Stop the presses! The good news is that the New Republic seems to be making an effort to include articles about race that are not by white liberals — not that I have anything general against white...
View Article[liveblog] The future of libraries
I’m at a Hubweek event called “Libraries: The Next Generation.” It’s a panel hosted by the Berkman Center with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the DPLA; Andromeda Yelton, a developer who has done...
View ArticleDoes the networking of meaning destroy meaning?
Donatella Della Ratta, at Copenhangen University and a Berkman fellow, has posted two remarkable essays. The first is about the New Palmyra Project, an effort to reconstruct the ancient monuments ISIS...
View ArticleMore cracks in the enormous dam in the river of scholarship [#blockThatMetaphor]
Here’s the TL;DR (also known as a well-written lead paragraph, by Scott Jaschik): All six editors and all 31 editorial board members of Lingua, one of the top journals in linguistics, last week...
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