Thursday

Zero History

William Gibson's latest is out at last. Interesting interview on Wired, along with a trailer for the book. Yes, a trailer. Well, it is William Gibson. Just be grateful you don't have to jack in... If it follows the previous two novels in this trilogy, it will cover marketing, trends, cool-hunting and the inevitable feeling that the vast mass of humanity are increasingly responding to decisions taken by freelance creatives with MacBooks in Starbucks.

Further comment once I've read it.

You are your own golden opportunity

The perpetual battle between Good and Evil (aka "end of week achievement feeling" versus "end of week failure to feel on top of things") is heating up. This post on personal responsibility over at the Unclutterer is simple, but true.

Reinventing the library

Despite all-pervasive e-readers, a universal lack of time and a sense in the zeitgeist that the analogue era finished very firmly at the end of the last millennium, new libraries are still being built. Intelligent Life on "reinventing the library".