This day in history

2008, 2013, 2018.

This Saturday (19 Aug), I’m appearing at the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books. I’m on a 2:30PM panel called “Return From Retirement,” followed by a signing:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/festivalofbooks

#15yrsago How the Daily Show’s PVRs work https://web.archive.org/web/20080819214437/http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2008/08/the-daily-show.html?cid=126776178

#15yrsago Transcript of my talk on “Life in the Information Economy” https://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt

#10yrsago Cross a border, lose your ebooks https://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308&A2=LIBLICENSE-L;1e13597c.1308

#10yrsago Talking about the writing life https://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=223#m4107

#5yrsago NYU makes med school free for all students https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082

#5yrsago Chinese spies force US-based Uighurs into “voluntary” surveillance by threatening their families in China https://www.thedailybeast.com/chinese-police-are-spying-on-uighurson-american-soil

#5yrsago CEO-to-worker wage gap yawns ever wider, hitting 312:1 in 2017, up by 17.6%…