I'm very grateful for Stephen J. Schuler’s review of my biography of Paradise Lost over at FPR.
A fascinating and deeply encouraging post by @dancohen on how his library is connecting chatbot inquiries to library resources:
This output encourages the student — or the faculty member or the general public — to consult the texts themselves, which popular chatbots eschew during spasms of summarization. Instead, through our software we want to foreground the expressive works of human beings — the articles, books, documents, and works of art, rather than the AI’s digests of these objects.
Updated a post in response to a fierce correction from Phil Christman.
Re: my post from earlier today, my friend Jono Linebaugh sent me this picture of a sign he came across in his travels. This one has the added virtue of theological acuity.
An old theory of mine: Online, big work gets smaller, while smaller work stays the same or gets bigger.
Different from/than/to — honestly, I’ve reached the point where they all sound wrong to me.
Very pleased and slightly disoriented at the prospect of hearing Rowan preach in my little parish church. Worlds colliding!
