Signal was one of the Whole Earth Catalog publications of the 1980s.
As an exemplar of curation and selection, as well as pressaging ... a huge amount of ... the current technological and online domain, it's hard to beat.
It seemed to briefly appear online (possibly at the Internet Archive), but disappeared again. It's now at LibGen.
Just twenty pages in, the selection of books and references is already pretty staggering (and contains numerous of my own choices and faves from the period).
Oddly: an argument for expertise and selection rather than the more popular trends of today of "crowdsourcing" and "collaborative filtering" everything. There's probably a balance between these poles.
As an exemplar of curation and selection, as well as pressaging ... a huge amount of ... the current technological and online domain, it's hard to beat.
It seemed to briefly appear online (possibly at the Internet Archive), but disappeared again. It's now at LibGen.
Just twenty pages in, the selection of books and references is already pretty staggering (and contains numerous of my own choices and faves from the period).
Oddly: an argument for expertise and selection rather than the more popular trends of today of "crowdsourcing" and "collaborative filtering" everything. There's probably a balance between these poles.