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Continue reading →: The heat & thinking
Summer in the city The last few days in Ireland have been stunning. Temperatures have been in the late 20s and early 30s. Degrees Celsius that is! It has not helped me make sense of the enormous mountain of reading I have been doing. So much is percolating through my…
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Continue reading →: Links of Interest (At Least to Me) 18/07/06
Well now this is fun (Thanks to my brother for the heads up), one of MacMillan New Writing’s author’s, Cate Sweeny, is building some buzz usinga book swap and some good old internet freebies. Here I couldn’t mention the promo without the author’s site. Here Steve Rubel explains how PR…
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Continue reading →: Round Up – Monday 17th July 2006
Oh what a day I never normally mind Mondays but I had an awful one today, not that it matters. In any case that is the reason for my (extremely) tardy posting. The Round Up I had intended to simply comment on the What skills will I/We need five years…
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Continue reading →: A little more info: Thiers
Thiers So we have some fine nugget of information turning up. As I suspected but had not confirmed on writing the previous post one of the authors cited, Adolphe Thiers, was head of state of France for some time prior to and following the collapse of the Second Empire and…
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Continue reading →: Lessig on Google Book Search & Fair Use
A fine video that is aging well Many people will have seen and heard this excellent talk by Lawerence Lessig on Google Book Search and Fair Use given that it is by now about 6 months old. I will not preach my vision of the thing though I should think…
