Tag: AI
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In praise of the dash
A few weeks ago the Observer columnist and internet technology expert John Naughton – one of the few columnists left who’s still worth reading after the Guardian carelessly disowned its Sunday sister – wrote a fascinating article – fascinating to a nerd like me, at least – about that chameleon of punctuation, the dash, or…
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‘Priorities for culture’: a pioneer Welsh Government strategy?
The Welsh Government’s just produced another document on culture. This one has the snappy title Priorities for culture. In case you’re interested, there are three priorities: ‘culture brings people together’, ‘celebrating Wales as a nation of culture’ and ‘culture is resilient and sustainable.’ I can already hear you thinking: ‘but two of these aren’t priorities,…
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In praise of indexes
These days librarians belong to a much-diminished profession (they’re not the only ones). But once you’ve become a librarian there are some things that stay with you for good. Among them is a commitment to the ideas of the collective provision of goods – as in ‘things that do good to people’ – and the…