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- Missing your own party
The largest spike in attention for this book came and went without me noticing.
The problem with having too much to do and too many different projects is it becomes impossible to keep on top of all the relevant discussions. Two Bits was reviewed on Lambda The Ultimate, a weblog about programming languages. There are some [...]
- Shortlisted for the Bateson Prize!
Two Bits was one of four shortlisted books.
The Society for Cultural Anthropology’s 1st annual Gregory Bateson prize was given to Barray Saunder’s CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting. Two Bits was shortlisted alongside some other great books. More here…
- Two Bits, now in eBook form…
Another version…
Kiran “Jace” Jonnalagadda (a veteran silk-list member) created an epub version for the Sony e-Book reader (thanks jace)!
- Happy Birthday RFC!
40 years.
There was a very nice editorial in the NYT this week by Steve Crocker, author of the first, and many subsequent RFCs.
- Two Bits for your phone
Kerim Friedman created a simple single page HTML file of the book for reading on a phone. Huzzah!
- Two Bits in Tech Review
The Organ of Record of my Alma Mater, Technology Review, has published a brief review of Two Bits.
- Reader reactions, The Korean Internet story…
I’ve gotten various great reactions on the book, and I hope to get more…
One of the most interesting so far comes from Seo Sanghyeon, an undergrad at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, who offered this great story of the early development of the Internet in Korea:After reading Chapter 5, I thought you [...]
- Inside Higher Ed on Two Bits
Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed has just published a very nice review of the Two Bits (”It’s all Geek to Me”).
Particularly clever is his distinction between nerd and geek:
We have, by contemporary standards, a mixed marriage, for I am a nerd, while my wife is a geek. A good thing no kids [...]
- Amazon, WTF? Discuss.
Since this blog is mirrored by Amazon on the book’s page, courtesy of Amazon Connect (thanks Dustin, for pointing it out!), I thought I would just say WTF?
Amazon is so freaking mysterious to me. For the weeks and months before the book was available the price dropped, and dropped, to the point where [...]
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