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Friday, November 2, 2007 12:00 AM

The Borgesian open-access library

Coming soon, freely accessible peer-reviewed journals that cover, well, just about anything

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Friday, November 2, 2007 12:38 PM

Andrology

Sometimes you are just having too much fun, Andrew. Thanks for the giggle.

Friday, November 2, 2007 02:10 PM

Only connect, sort of

Taken to its logical conclusion, the Blogosphere is indeed like an infinite hall of mirrors, expressing an ever-expanding multitude of world views, reflecting each other obliquely into infinity. None are true, all are true. And reading them only takes forever.

Natural growth towards complexity and individuation. Fractal blogging.

I loved the image in a recent post of the Google blinking and twitching as it organizes the world. Globalization of the nervous system. An e-campaign for Borges for president. Or a draft for Ko Un, writing a poem about every person he's ever met.

Nice post, Mr. Leonard.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 07:41 AM

open access

There will never be blogs covering all possible situations in all possible universes. There would have to be more blogs than universes, and as many blogs in each universe as phenomena in that universe. Were you being hyperbolic?

You can add finite quantities as long as you wish but you will never reach infinite. A finite number of agencies, no matter how large, can never produce an infinite number of results.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 04:22 PM

ouch

Now my brain hurts.

Saturday, November 3, 2007 06:16 PM

I WANT TO BUY GOOGLE

It is an eye-opener of sorts to read through the article on The Borgesian open-access library. The writer Andrew Leonard has picked up the right topic for debate.

Within the context of globalisation and knowledge sharing the current frenzy in the corporate world where everyone seems to be buying almost everyone else and terming it Mergers and Acquisitions evokes a mirthful laughter!

I therefore decided to put my blog to some good use. Why not we think in terms of buying Google? Is there a need to buy Google? Well these are hard questions to answer for a Wall Street analyst, but, perhaps not for a zillionaire like Bigelow.

If the article in the WIRED is any indication of what Bigelow intends to do, i wouldn't be surprised if he ends up buying Google.

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