asking questions and discovering how little I know
From the monthly archives:
What if bits and bytes smelled? And what if they smelled bad? And what if they had the capacity to carry viruses – no, not the email kind but biological n’er-do-wells? Somewhere out in that vast and ill-defined world we call “digital space,” there’s a lot – and I mean a lot – of refuse. [...]
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When you encounter something for the first time you have no reference point. The thing you encounter establishes itself as the reference point. Anything similar encountered afterward, although “new,” is seen in relation to that first thing, the reference point. For example, the first dog you see becomes a reference point for “dog.” If it’s [...]
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I’ve been looking up information on Haiti. What I find is of two varieties. There is the information I find that makes me wonder, “How did I not know that?” and there is the information I find where I say to myself, “How could I have forgotten that?” The latter is information, often historical or [...]
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I'm Bill Wren, a writer-editor, social media enthusiast in Fredericton, New Brunswick. And that would be my dog, Molly Bloom, as a logo in the header.
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Finding ideas, mind-mapping, process and chaos
by Bill on January 31, 2010
Two related post subjects caught my attention last week and I’m trying to distill them here. The subjects are ideas (coming up with them) and mind-mapping. I began the post, How to find an idea (since abandoned) and also scattered a few comments on a number of blogs providing my own less than profound insight. [...]
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