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Posted on September 1, 2019

“Writing that is noticing” — more wisdom from Ursula Le Guin via THIN|SILENCE

After yesterday’s wisdom from Ursula Le Guin, here again via THIN|SILENCE is more on the “climax technology” of pen and paper A good pen or pencil and a well-made notebook…

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Posted on January 19, 2019

Review of “Homesickness: An American History” by Susan Matt, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2012

This is a wonderful book I heartily recommend, indeed re-reading the review I hope the warmth of my recommendation is clear. The balance  Susan Mat strikes between mastery of the…

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Posted on September 23, 2018

You are not a product: Phil Lawton on Dublin as a hyper-competitive city

Back in 2015 I attended the inaugural symposium of the Health Research Board’s Trial Methodology Research Network (TMRN), which I blogged about here. The meeting (which was excellent) was in the…

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Posted on September 21, 2018

You Are Not A Product: Johnny Ryan, Brave, GDPR and Ted Nelson’s dream

Readers may have recently seen news that the Brave browser has jointly filed complaints against Google relating to their sharing of personal data. Recently I posted a link to NIthin…

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Posted on August 27, 2018

Nithin Coca – “How I Fully Quit Google”

Could you stop using Google products? Completely? Not just Google Search, but Gmail, Calendar, and all the rest of their stable of products and services. Nithin Coca has done just…

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Posted on May 5, 2018May 4, 2018

Adam DeVille on Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia”

From Adam DeVille’s Eastern Christian Books blog:   In this short book, Bollas imitates Freud in some ways insofar as he engages in broad cultural analysis of many themes of…

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Posted on November 6, 2016

“the primacy of the material world over the digital”

From Janan Ganesh’s “Notebook” column in the FT, 29/10/16 (firewalled): As the internet stirred at the turn of the 1990s, its distance-closing properties were talked up. Speculative accounts of the near-future…

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Posted on September 16, 2016September 16, 2016

Via YouTube, here is a video of Neil Postman on the surrender of culture to technology from 1997

Yes, I can appreciate the irony of sharing this YouTube video on WordPress.

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