Leah Price’s fascinating essay from the London Review of Books looks at the history of shorthand, and the similarities between shorthand writers and modern-day programmers. “Like the open-source movement a century and a half later, Pitmanism was idealistic, distributed and male.” http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n23/leah-price/diary The Joy of Pitman Shorthand is a site created by Pierre Savoie years [...]