February 7, 2007 – 11:37 am
From Information Super Traffic Jam: “A new assessment from Deloitte & Touche predicts that global traffic will exceed the Internet’s capacity as soon as this year. Why? The rapid growth in the number of global Internet users, combined with the rise of online video services and the lack of investment in new infrastructure. If Deloitte’s [...]
December 12, 2006 – 12:36 pm
In Where’s the protest?, the Boston Globe asks, “Can an antiwar movement confined largely to the Internet and the voting booth change the course of a war?”
August 31, 2006 – 01:41 pm
In “The Second Superpower Rears Its Beautiful Head,” Dr. James Moore, a senior fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, writes, “As the United States government becomes more belligerent in using its power in the world, many people are longing for a ’second superpower’ that can keep the US in [...]
April 12, 2006 – 10:30 am
Two Russian artists hired a polling company to survey people from 13 countries and the Web to see what “the people” want and don’t want from their art. They then took the polling data and used it to inspire paintings of the most and least wanted paintings from each group. Basically, we’re talking Art by [...]
April 11, 2006 – 12:13 pm
In their article, This Boring Headline Is Written for Google, the NY Times takes a look at the effect of search-engine optimization techniques on the task of creating news headlines. It’s a kind of “what has technology taken from us now?” story, but it is also pretty balanced. One professor they interviewed said, “Newspaper headlines [...]
March 24, 2006 – 10:54 am
A group of concerned citizens and Internet bigwigs such as Microsoft and Google are petitioning Congress to get them to stop the wire companies such AT&T and Verizon from instituting unfair practices regarding the data that travels over the Internet, such as having a premium “fast lane” for companies that are willing to pay for [...]
The EirePreneur, one of my favorite bloggers from Ireland, conducted an interesting investigation in his post, “How Social Bookmarking can lead to the Semantic Web.” As he writes, “I decided to test what intelligence might be evident in the del.icio.us social bookmarking service.” From Steven Pinker (who I hate) to Steven Johnson (whose Emergence I [...]
February 3, 2006 – 09:59 pm
Every week (for at least two weeks in a row now), I write up a list of all the things I’ve learned over the past week. This is a special little treat that I like to file under Gobbledygook. But enough of the explanatory note. On with the show.
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving [...]
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January 17, 2006 – 03:50 pm
Sean Coon, over at connecting*the*dots, has an interesting article, entitled, “Writing 2.0,” where he talks about some people out there - Chris Anderson of “The Long Tail” fame, David Weinberger of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” fame being two of them - who are actively writing their books with help of the blogosphere.
Sean writes:
Now, this approach is [...]
December 20, 2005 – 02:23 pm
Omniscient, er, I mean, Google, has released a Google Music Search. Go to Google, put in the name of your favorite band, and when you get to the results list, click on the top one. It will take you a page that gives all the albums, a link to reviews, a link to some music [...]
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