Author Archives: bonaldi
It’s the iPod of reading
On the problem that an Apple Tablet will solve. Continue reading
Your solution to the news crisis will not work. Here’s why.
After Metafilter’s 400th thread about saving journalism, I realised all my answers were saying the same thing. So I posted a new version of this Slashdot comment-turned-meme to speed up snarking: Your blog advocates a technical/legislative/market-based/crowd-sourced approach to saving journalism. … Continue reading
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a versatile storage solution for modern living
So build she did, around the clock for 38 years until her death on Sept. 5, 1922. The house now has 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, 10,000 window panes, 17 chimneys, 950 doors, and 40 staircases. It is famous for its … Continue reading
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continential philosophy
it’s often suggested that Quine must have been wrong because conceptual analysis is what analytic philosophers do, and there must be something that they’re doing when they do it. That put a brave face on it, but there were guilty … Continue reading
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derivatives
In 2003 the total size of the world economy was $49,000,000,000,000. The total size of the derivatives being traded was $85,000,000,000,000. In other words, derivatives today are worth far, far more than the total economic activity of the planet. More … Continue reading
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editing
In Salon, Gary Kamiya writes in praise of editors: The art of editing is running against the cultural tide. We are in an age of volume; editing is about refinement. It’s about getting deeper into a piece, its ideas, its … Continue reading
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advertising as conversation
John Battelle wants you to think of advertising as a conversation. That thought has made quite a lot of money for him and Federated Media. Except last week they got slapped about by readers for inviting their authors to become … Continue reading
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