Memex. » Uncategorized http://memex.josephcotterill.com Recorded by Joseph Cotterill. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:22:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Best wishes for 2010. http://memex.josephcotterill.com/2010/01/best-wishes-for-2010-3/ http://memex.josephcotterill.com/2010/01/best-wishes-for-2010-3/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:49:58 +0000 Politicus http://memex.josephcotterill.com/?p=767

Osama bin Laden will be killed or captured this year.

Which, when you think about it, is an interesting black swan to put among the strategy and diplomacy pigeons circling around Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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(via Jason Kottke).

]]> http://memex.josephcotterill.com/2009/09/its-apple-season/feed/ 0 Thamus and Theuth. http://memex.josephcotterill.com/2009/08/hello-world-again/ http://memex.josephcotterill.com/2009/08/hello-world-again/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:03 +0000 Politicus http://memex.josephcotterill.com/?p=10 This is the first memex post. You can read about the memex’s purpose here.

In Phaedrus, King Thamus and the Egyptian god Theuth argued about the value of writing for memory preservation. Both King Thamus and, later on, Jacques Derrida said Theus’ invention inherently only allowed the transmission of the appearance of wisdom and memory, not their reality.

Which is a very good argument to bear in mind when you start blogging, I guess. But then, why would any king want his subjects to be able to write?

I hope you enjoy reading this memex.

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