Because Internet book. Read 20 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transfo...
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language From Riverhead Books (Penguin), available now! A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity’s most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by…
"It is hard to reason about an arbitrary chunk of code specifically because you
cannot tell what it does not do. Developers voluntarily impose constraints on the
system in order to amplify their reasoning abilities."
Somehow, it just seems like the kind of thing a Greek and Latin graduate student with free lance experience in web development would do. It began as a pet project of Tim's to catalog his own books, and those of his book-loving friends. And so began the first social book cataloging site. LibraryThing.com launched on…
Bill Gates has become a powerful influence on publishing. An endorsement from the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder can cause tangible sales spikes, reminiscent of the golden ticket that once came with being picked for Oprah's book club. So just what does Gates read? Quartz manually compiled all 186 of the books recommended on his blog,...