This site & Author · Oct 30, 02:49 PM
THE AUTHOR:
Stewart Butterfield, b. 1973 in a fishing village cum hippie hideaway on the central coast of British Columbia.
Good man, loves his family. Employee of Yahoo! Inc., co-founder of Flickr, author of “Being and Nothing-in-Particular-ness”, a 3rd year Philosophy of Mind paper (unpublished).
THE NAME:
Sylloge (pronounced: sill-oh-zhee) is a anglicization of a latinization of the greek stem “sullog” (collect), as used, for example, in sullog-os: an assembly, concourse, meeting of persons.
It isn’t in most dictionaries, but the (New Shorter) Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “a collection or summary” while the Merriam-Webster Thesaurus lists the following: Compendium, aperçu, digest, précis, sketch, survey, syllabus.
THE SITE:
- 1998-1999, an old fashioned “personal web site”
- 1999-2002, a blog
- 2000-2001, home of the 5k contest
- 2003-2005, left fallow
- 2005-, a blog
