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Creative Combinatorics is the subject of a blog I produced to accompany a poster presentation with the title “Combinatorics and order as a foundation of creativity, information organisation and art in the work of Wilhelm Ostwald” at the conference “Analogous spaces - architecture and the space of information, intellect and action”, 15-17 May 2008, Ghent University, Belgium.

Creative Combinatorics is the subject of a blog I produced to accompany a poster presentation with the title “Combinatorics and order as a foundation of creativity, information organisation and art in the work of Wilhelm Ostwald” at the conference “Analogous spaces - architecture and the space of information, intellect and action”, 15-17 May 2008, Ghent University, Belgium.

This O'Reilly post notes several nice bits of the history of the AP, a useful topic for anyone interested in media or information history. First comes the 1850s creation of the enterprise, including some practical collaboration to share news. Next is a brief note on the teletype.

Finally got around to watching Alex Wright’s Google Tech Talk entitled The Web That Wasn’t. Alex is the author of GLUT: Mastering Information Through the Ages, a book I don’t own yet but will be getting soon. The talk is based on the book and gives a tour of philosophical and direct precursors to the web.

In 2002 a bet was placed: five years hence, in 2007, the top Google search results on selected topics will either be blog posts or New York Times articles. This week one blogger determined a winner. Roger Caidenhead calculated that blogs nudged out the NYT in the majority of 5 cases, 3-2.

In 2002 a bet was placed: five years hence, in 2007, the top Google search results on selected topics will either be blog posts or New York Times articles. This week one blogger determined a winner. Roger Caidenhead calculated that blogs nudged out the NYT in the majority of 5 cases, 3-2.