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History By the Ounce
Like all Amazon Prime members (meaning simply that I pay a flat annual fee to get “free” shipping on my orders), I get occasional emails from Amazon alerting me to items I might be interested in buying, based on my past buying patterns. Here are two of the items in one such email that arrived a day or so before New Year’s Eve: When you think about it, $1.69 per oz. is a bit steep for a book. But I suspect it might be worth it.Read More
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Access to Access
One of my favorite bloggers is Kevin Kelly, who is a technology enthusiast. He is brilliant, but because I view technology with a jaundiced eye, I often disagree with him. As case in point was his recent post called “What Books Will Become,” in which Kelly cheerleads for the demise of paper-based books. The ending of his paean includes this (probably) visionary statement: In the long run (next 10-20 years) we won’t pay for individual books any more than we’ll pay for individual songs or movies.Read More
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If You’re Sick of Fretting over BP’s Gusher in the Gulf…
Here’s something else to keep in mind, which you can do (a little) something about right now. Besides, it’s really just another angle on the same story….Read More
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More from Owen Barfield
Here’s another excerpt from Owen Barfield‘s Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning. I’m quoting it in partial answer to a comment posted by Joel Jacobson in reply to my just previous post, asking what I meant by “technological rationalism,” which I had claimed was one of two powerful fundamentalisms at work in America today, the other being “religious unreason”.Read More
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An Interesting Factoid…and a Daunting Projection….
I ran across these in a recent white paper on the subject of virtualization, a technology that “provides logical representations of physical resources while preserving the usage interfaces of those resources.” The amount of data created, captured, and replicated worldwide in 2006 was 161 million terabytes—enough for 3 million copies of every book ever written. By 2010 this digital universe is expected to expand six-fold.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
