From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Public Intellectual 2.0

Public Intellectual 2.0

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Disquisitions about public intellectuals usually conclude that they ain’t what they used to be. Subtitles from recent books on the topic include

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Lots More on Women and “Big Ideas” Books

Lots More on Women and “Big Ideas” Books
More on the subject from The Independent: “One of [the Felicity Bryan] agents, Catherine Clarke, is …

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When Layoffs are Actually Good News

When Layoffs are Actually Good News
Cuts at Entertainment Weekly mean the magazine will survive—at least for now.…

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Xeroxing the brain

Xeroxing the brain
Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, have published an in-depth roadmap for “whole brain emulation” – in …

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Newspaper Website Design

Newspaper Website Design

Smashing Magazine does a newspaper roundup in a week that saw the FT.com make news for its redesign.

These days, the design …

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Publishing’s “erudite lap dancer theory”

Publishing’s “erudite lap dancer theory”
“Is the books world short-changing its bright young women?” by Brian Schofield for The Guardian. “It’s pretty clear that our …

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