“The Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time”: you’ve got to be kidding!

Under-recognized? Surely not! Permit me to repeat that and state it fully in context:

“An argument can be made, and so I will make it here, that the invention of the Internet is the under-recognized revolution of our time [italics added]. Continue reading

On reviewing: a diversion to another old book

In an earlier post on reviewing, I noted the claimed contribution to the death of Keats by the savage review of his poetry by one John Wilson Croker. It appeared in the Quarterly Review, of which I now own a copy of Volume LXIV (1839), a most welcome and expected (as I chose it in an antiques shop in Tetsworth) Christmas present. Continue reading