I’m originally from Pittsburgh, a town whose greatness goes beyond the Steelers, great pizza, and the world-famous Primanti’s sandwich. Here’s a great video of a quarter-millennium of Pittsburgh innovation, from the Heinz History Center:
a blog on information, technology, and culture by Ira Nathenson
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- 250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
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- Blogrolls: having your cake and eating it too
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- James Gleick on the future of books
- The privacy paradox and Google
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- A very "Will It Blend" holiday season
- Clouded Constitution
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- Advice for new law students, part V: avoid Monty Python "Yes it is!, No it isn't!" argumentation
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- +November (11)
- Hurricane season ends
- Sunday funnies: kicked out of Costco
- James Gleick on the future of books
- Advice for new law students, part IV: essay exams
- A presidential "legacy" via rewritten history
- New Star Trek trailer
- Is Zoetrope the next-gen Internet Archive?
- 250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
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- Comcast and the creepiness factor
- Yet another report on digital preservation
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- Rocco's the man
- Elephants
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- New report on copyright and digital preservation
- Google and Viacom reach partial YouTube data agreement
- Google balks at providing YouTube records of employees
- Google and Viacom: a privacy "Exxon Valdez?"
- Another Civil Procedure limerick
- GAO report and pending bill on federal e-mail retention
- BoingBoing "unpublishing" blog posts
- Google finally posts privacy link on homepage
- Archiving Independence Day
- Why does Google keep so much information?
- The privacy paradox and Google
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- Twitter microblog
- New report coming on "How Much Information"
- Odysseus and tax day
- A Civil Procedure limerick
- Tiger Woods, distractions, and laptops in the classroom
- Selyaisms and The Federal Rules of Gallimaufry
- Star Trek and the law: the case of Captain Kirk vs. The Computer
- Today in 1840: Morse Code patent issued
- "Fire in the hole" and YouTube apologies
- Advice for new law students, part III: avoiding your own Universal Studios fire
- What about mail surveillance?
- Ends, means, and cell phone surveillance
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- LabCorp v. Metabolite dismissed
- Microsoft and Creative Commons
- This posting will self-destruct in five seconds
- Chinese censorship and the infoglut
- Expanded links
- The electronic leash: whatever happened to trusting your kids?
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