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I have a Catch-22 thread running since the original manifesto about how to provide convincing arguments about knowledge modelling, if I’m sceptical about there being any place here for “scientific method”. The range of ANKOS reviews – positive, negative and indifferent to Wolfram – suggests he really has the same problem. [Amazon reader reviews.] The … Continue reading “Catch 23 ?”

‘One picture is worth ten thousand words’, (via phrasefinder) Frederick R. Barnard in Printer’s Ink, 8 Dec 1921 retelling a Chinese proverb. Looked this up ‘cos I keep thinking Wolfram has missed the point of this one. More seriously, this aphorism is easily mis-interpreted when extolling the power of GUI’s, or contemplating graphical means of … Continue reading “An aphorism too far ?”

Blogging Tools Comparison. Survey by Al MacIntyre (via randgaenge) confirms Blogger / Blogger Pro as the biggest with Moveable Type and Radio Userland as the most sophisticated. Whatever happened to Manila ? Includes comparative review of MT and RL, loads of blogging info sources, including a link to a Taxonomy of Blogging by Steve Outing … Continue reading “Blogging Tools Comparison”

I asked for help with Wolfram and Steven Weinberg (via Jorn) provided a timely review in the NY Review. [Quote] Wolfram makes it seem that physicists choose simple rather than complex phenomena to study because of long habit or mathematical flabbiness, but in seeking the laws of nature it is the essence of the art … Continue reading “My Plea Answered”

Having finished Foucault, I was off to Borders the night before. Scan read Wolfram’s “New Kind of Sience” yet again. Just can’t bring myself to buy it. For anyone excited by patterns in numbers and nature, it has a million and one examples to play with, but I cannot fathom any structure in the book … Continue reading “Reading Matter.”

Texte zur Wirtschaft. German Business Newsletter (via Thomas **) entitled “The Archaeology of Blogs” discussing the idea that the rhizome / network view of knowledge has been around since the end of the 70’s. (I beg to differ – Deleuze and Guattari’s “Anti-Oedipus” popularised rhizomes in 1977, but Foucault coined “The Semantic Web” back in … Continue reading “Texte zur Wirtschaft”

P2P Networks Will Replace WWW. New Scientist article (via Robb) about IRIS, US government funded P2P Network. I’ve believed P2P was the future for a couple of years, ever since being amazed at the power of Napster (and Kazaa since). Notwithstanding the technology aspects, P2P is much closer to what knowledge really is. [Check out … Continue reading “P2P Networks Will Replace WWW”

Hitting the Right Buttons. Feature from Salon (via Curry) about subconscious triggers exploited in advertising.