… is online. Lots of speculation in the Blogosphere about What It Means. I like the view that it’s basically early Yahoo! in reverse: where Yahoo! had Directory first, then Search, Google now has Search first, Directory second. And users build the directory, whereas Yahoo! had to pay people to do it for them. But it’s too early to say how this will pan out.
Daily Archives: November 16, 2005
The complete New Yorker archive
Yep. The entire shooting match on eight DVDs.
4,109 issues. Half a million pages. And only $70. I want it. Now. Transatlantic shipping is $65 though. Hmmm… who do I know in the US who’s contemplating a trip?
Pure talent…
… is a wonderful thing. New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik has it in spades. I’ve just read two beautiful pieces by him in the same week. First his lovely preface to the new edition of Molly Hughes’s Victorian memoir, A London Child of the 1870s, and then a startlingly good New Yorker essay on C.S. Lewis.