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Ev, three Jasons and a Jensen – Everything you wanted to know about the Google Blogger wedding, and weren’t afraid to ask.

The End of Doneness – A 1998 Dave Weinberger JOHO article [

Cost Effective Meta-Data – From Stefano Mazzocchi [via Seb] [Paraphrasing] The more, higher quality meta-data the better, because the quality of meta-data heavily influences the effectiveness of retrieval systems. Meta-data mark-up-based “semantic” web solutions (RDF, Ontologies) are economically infeasible (because the human assignment of the right tags is in addition to defining the content itself … Continue reading “Cost Effective Meta-Data”

Progress via Disruptive Technologies – From Hugh Blackmer, Science Librarian, Washington & Lee Uni. [via Seb] Particularly on the subject of colaborative web tools, but on the message of emergence and change – mainly technology driven – usually hingeing on chaos at disruptive cusps in development. See my dissertation on business change. Interesting and related … Continue reading “Progress via Disruptive Technologies”

Conversational Terrorism [via Seb] For example, as the same quote used by Seb, sums it up …[Quote] “Think vs. Feel” Any person will likely be off-center of the analytical / emotive spectrum in any heated exchange. By pointing out which side the other person is on, (either side will do) he/she is obliged to defend … Continue reading “Conversational Terrorism”

Social science at 190mph. Analysis of Nascar behaviour from First Monday. [via Jorn]Earlier blog on Netherlands road-safety behaviour via eye-contact in the absence of road markings / signs etc.

P2P Marches On – From The Register. [via Jorn]

Language Timothy ! (II) – Terry Jones speaking about the appalling collateral damage already being inflicted on the English language.[via Jorn] [via Common Dreams] [via UK Guardian] [Language Timothy !]