Phase change
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Protocols and plain language.
Phase change March 10, 2023 Snowflake, Wilson Bentley, ca. 1910 Ear­lier this week, in my newsletter , I praised a new project from Matt Webb. Here, I want to come at it from a dif­ferent angle. Briefly: Matt has built the Braggoscope , a fun and useful appli­ca­tion for exploring the archives of the beloved BBC radio show In Our Time, hosted by the inim­itable Melvyn Bragg. In Our Time only pro­vides HTML pages for each episode -  there’s no struc­tured data, no sense of “episode X is con­nected to episode Y because of shared fea­ture Z”. As Mat
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