The WhereProject

December 2006

  • Everydot

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    Thanks to Numenius, I ran across the photoblog Everydot from my part of the world: Every dot on the map interests me, especially the little tiny ones. Some “towns” are no more than an intersection, possibly with a store or a town hall. A few towns seem to be gone without a trace, though sometimes…

  • Paying Attention to Darfur

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    This week I've been reading Richard Lanham's book The Economics of Attention, and it's given new meaning to the phrase "paying attention." Lanham points out that if economics is the "study of how human allocate resources to produce various commodities," then it would seem that in an information society like ours, information would be the…