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Simic’s Study of Ignorance
While I was basically sympathetic with the jeremiad posted by Charles Simic to NYRBlog yesterday, I would like to take issue with one of his turns of phrase: It took years of indifference and stupidity to make us as ignorant as we are today. This seems...
National Association of Broadcasters to Induct Betty White Into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced that film and television star Betty White will be inducted into the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame during a special breakfast at the 2012 NAB Show, on Tuesday, April 17 in Las Vegas. With a career...Google’s Assault on Semantics
Apparently Google has decided to rise to the challenge of Microsoft’s Bing, which grew out of technology introduced by Powerset, regardless of whether or not that challenge is carrying any weight. According to a report by Amir Efrati, which appeared...Flunking Barack Obama
There is much more to Diane Ravitch’s latest post to NYRBlog, “Flunking Arne Duncan,” which appeared earlier this week, than her systematic account of all the ways in which Barack Obama’s Secretary of Education has done such a dreadful job....Have the ‘Mavericks’ Left Our Shores?
I have to say that I am generally sympathetic with the misgivings that Joshua Kosman voiced in the Sunday Datebook section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle. The title of his article is “Maverick idea for Symphony festival – new players;”...Somebody Likes Bradley Manning!
According to Lauren Indvik’s post to Mashable last night, Bradley Manning has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This should not be entirely surprising, since WikiLeaks received an institutional nomination last year. Indivk took the trouble...Giving the Voters a Clear Choice
Regardless of whom the Republican Party eventually decides to nominate as a candidate to run against Barack Obama in November’s Presidential election, Obama has finally made a move that is likely to be interpreted by most voters as defining a clear...Who Are These Guys?
Since I began the year with a post declaring my bailing on Firefox, I took some interest in yesterday’s post by Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols to his ZDNet Networking blog. It was Vaughan-Nichols who first put the bug in my ear with his data points on...
