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.

NIcholson Baker reviews O'Reilly's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual.

"Grime is the UK's rap (not rap), syncopated urban music with people rhyming over top. Like Jamaican dancehall, there's an obvious kinship with U.S. hip-hop, but once you start drawing parallels they collapse pretty quickly. Grime is its own culture, with

David Foster Wallace examines some of the ideological underpinnings of dictionaries and usage guides.

I skip the New York Times Magazine for a week, and that week is the one when RTF alumnus Rob Walker publishes a feature on crafts and DIY culture.

Andy Oram discusses the social implications of participatory Web projects.

"This is a cross-cultural history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net."