Been reading A Cooperative Species and A Wonderful Life. The grammatical sections of The Sense of Style were heavy-going for me. Jason Collins reviewed A Cooperative Species a few years ago. As for A Wonderful Life, it seems to me that Stephen Jay Gould had mastered the ponderous and egotistical prose flourishes evident in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory rather early in his writing career. In any case, Simon Conway Morris’ The Crucible of Creation, a direct response to Gould’s interpretation of the Burgess Shale finds, is next on my list.
In other news, I’ve been trying out the ThinkUp Twitter analytic service. Not a big fan of Anil Dash so don’t worry, I’m just using the trial. But I think I understand why it’s not gaining traction: at 5,000+ followers I don’t think I have enough to warrant the utility of the service. 5,000 isn’t too shabby, so I suspect the market segment for which this might be valuable, people with 50 K followers, is just too small (at least at the price point they’re asking for).
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