Here's Dave Parry's response to The Net Delusion.

Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. 19-39.

Vinyl LPs appear to be the only segment of the physical music business that is growing. I suspect music fans prefer the tactility and size of the LP format.

American researchers found a mechanical audio recording in France that was created before Edison's claim to inventing the phonograph. I wonder what the reserve price on eBay will be.

Images of the installation of a microfilm reader in 1975. My dad worked on these through most of his working life.

This wiki allows users to list skills they believe have been make obsolete by changing technology.

Here's one of the most erudite discussions of logo design history. It's funny how some logos, like the one Paul Rand designed for IBM have endured, while old logos I prefer - like the multicolor Apple logo - have fallen by the wayside.

This blog lists a new "white person complaint" each day of the week.

There might be some chuckles in this collection of a TV show about computers that began airing in the 1980s.

This wiki site is for a business book about the social facets of expertise and how expertise can lead to poor consequences.

There's nothing really new here about how hipsters thing vinyl sounds better than CDs, but it provides a nice historical context for the idea that the CD is a dying format.

I missed this anniversary, but it's worth linking to this commemorative story.

Al Gore uses a tacit "strong effects" argument in this piece blaming television for eroding public discourse.

Nick Carr discusses _Exile on Main Street_ at length and alludes to Gang of Four in his erudite rebuttal to David Weinberger's contention that the "track" is the natural unit of music.

This awesome photo-essay shows how the West dumps toxic computer parts on the developing world.

Chaka Fattah used to be my representative in West Philly and is now running for mayor of the city. I take issue with some of his suggestions like SmartBoards, but infobong.com endorses him for mayor.