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Looking for clarity about the coronavirus outbreak? Our World in Data is aggregating information about the virus.
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“Remote everything — we’ll travel less.” Azeem Azhar writing presciently in early February about ways coronavirus might change the world.
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Are you looking to learn more about working remotely? Check out Scott Berkun’s book about his experience doing song for WordPress, The Year Without Pants. (It’s especially useful if you’re managing a remote team.)
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“When the world doesn’t quite make sense, don’t brush the offending observations under the rug. Think harder.” Tim O’Reilly’s eulogy for mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson, who died on February 28. (See also The NY Times’ obituary.)
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Proposed legislation in the U.S. would constrain the structure of online spaces aimed at children.
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A subtle change in Apple Music’s information architecture: the app now groups related albums.
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Another change in music player app IA: Spotify is ditching labels in buttons.
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In the last entry of my A Year of Podcasting series, I discuss what’s next for The Informed Life podcast.
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Paul Pangaro and TJ McLeish’s replica of Gordon Pask’s Colloquy of Mobiles (1968) is now on display at the Centre Pompidou.
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RIP SETI@home, a great early example of distributed computing over the internet. (I was surprised to learn the project was still active.)
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