Category: reading

  • On Censorship

    “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”  Joseph Brodsky Censorship seeks to maintain social control by depriving people of information that challenges the status quo. Brodsky would know, having first been committed to a mental hospital then sent to a work camp before the Soviet Union expelled him…

  • Wither the RSS? Not yet

    Some of you may be wondering what I mean by that headline. Currently there are two choices when it comes to receiving subscribed content online, email and RSS. While most people are very familiar with email, fewer know about RSS. With its familiar interface and ubiquitous presence in my life, messages that arrive in my…