Philosophy, et cetera

Lifehacker has a Thanksgiving list of the 50 free apps they're most thankful for , which is worth checking out.  I especially recommend:...

I just got a new laptop, and figured I should collate some useful links while my memory is still fresh. Feel free to add your own suggestio...

I like having students submit their work electronically, rather than dealing with reams of paper. But I don't so much like dealing with ...

If you're currently using Windows, you might want to give the open source, flexible, faster and more secure Ubuntu Linux a try (esp. th...

Given my sporadic posting of late, perhaps it's a good time to remind any less-geeky readers of the wonders of RSS feeds. In short: Ra...

Interesting stuff in the NYT : Some imagine a situation in which the bulk of introductory course materials are online, as videos or interac...

After a year of use, I must say that my Kindle [reviewed here ] has turned out to be even more useful than I'd expected. I used to rea...

Any computer scientists in the audience? I often find myself pondering what kinds of communications/IT tools (e.g. email, blogs, forums, wi...

The wonderful PhilPapers website is now open to all. As David Chalmers introduces it: The core of PhilPapers is a database of close to 20...

Wonderful news: I've discovered an easy way to convert scanned PDF files (e.g. from JSTOR) so that they're readable on my Kindle . ...

Don't miss the 75th Philosophers' Carnival , which includes our recent discussion of Moral Experts and a fun discussion over at Hal...

I must thank Andrew Cullison for introducing me to Ubuntu ("Linux for Human Beings") last month. To pass along the favour, I...

I finally gave into temptation and bought myself a Kindle e-book reader , which I'm so far very impressed with. I immediately went to...

Watch the video , or read the transcript . First, the depressing: Wikipedia... represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours...

Googleblog notes that today is Document Freedom Day . This reminds me that I should stop locking up my work and other information in Micros...

A common theme in analyses of the Internet is the transformation from a 'filter then publish' to a 'publish, then filter' w...

Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations explores the power of new communications technology a...

Tim Wu : [I]t is time to recognize a simpler principle for fair use: work that adds to the value of the original, as opposed to substituting...

[Part Six in a series: Reading Benkler's Wealth of Networks .] We've seen that the Internet, as a more open and accessible public me...

[Part Five in a series: Reading Benkler's Wealth of Networks .] "The easy possibility of communicating effectively into the public ...