Ed Note: one of Boingboing's three current guest bloggers, Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America. (You can see a video interview introducing the book here.) — Read the rest
Ed Note: one of Boingboing's three current guest bloggers, Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America. (You can see a video interview introducing the book here.) — Read the rest
Ed Note: one of Boingboing's three current guest bloggers, Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America. (You can see a video interview introducing the book here.) — Read the rest
Our current guest blogger, Steven Johnson, is going to stick around for the next couple of days because he got a late start (and because we love his entries so much). In the meantime, we've got a special treat in store — Gareth Branwyn and Charles Platt are both going to guest blog for the next two weeks. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Ed Note: Boingboing's current guest blogger Steven Johnson is the author of six books, most recently The Invention Of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution and the Birth Of America, for which he is currently on book tour. — Read the rest
Steven "Ghost Map" Johnson's location-based software project Outside.in just launched Radar, a fascinating tool for visualizing and taking action on the stuff happening near you.
— Read the restRadar, as the name would suggest, organizes the news in dynamic, concentric circles around you.
Episode #15 of the BoingBoingBoing podcast is now online!
Special guest for this episode is author William Gibson, and we speak with him about his new novel, Spook Country. Cory reviewed the novel here, and posted more about its development here. — Read the rest
Super lucky #13 edition of the BoingBoingBoing podcast is now online!
Special guest for this episode is game designer, games researcher, and futures forecaster Jane McGonigal, who is probably best known as the brain behind I LOVE BEES and WORLD WITHOUT OIL. — Read the rest
The long-awaited episode #12 of the Boing Boing Boing podcast is out! Sorry about the long delay since episode #11, but these homemade audio krafts take many fortnights for our tree-dwelling legion of squirrel-helpers to fashion from acorn husks and pine needles! — Read the rest
Steven Berlin Johnson shares news from his online project outside.in:
— Read the restSince we've been tracking local blog posts by neighborhood for six months now, we figured it was about time we figured out exactly what the US's bloggiest neighborhoods were, given that this is the question every sensible person has been trying to find an answer to for years now.
Who Is Sick? is a new Web service that provide a sense of your community's health by enabling people who live there to share information about the local spread of diseases. You can anonymously post your own sickness information and use the Google Maps interface to search and filter sicknesses by symptoms, sex, age, and, of course, location. — Read the rest
R.U. Sirius has a new book of interviews with interesting people, called True Mutations. I can't wait to get my copy.
— Read the restTrue Mutations: Interviews on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness looks at the wild changes that may be coming to the human species during the 21st Century.
I just finished Steven Johnson's excellent new book "The Ghost Map," a popular science book about the London cholera epidemic of 1854, and the extraordinary new science that emerged from its punishing violence.
In 1854, London was a city with millions of residents and no sewage system. — Read the rest
