Saturday, April 29th, 2006
Rob Hof in his article Are online reputations portable? opens up the debate
For years, both sellers and buyers on eBay have bellyached about not being able to carry their reputations--the feedback ratings they get from each other ...
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
In his article Weapon of Math Destruction David P. Reed says
Conventional wisdom is that a remarkably powerful effect known as Metcalfe's Law is driving the growth of the Internet. The law says that the value ...
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
The Long Now Foundation says
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation ...
Saturday, April 29th, 2006
The Long Now Foundation says
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation ...
Monday, April 24th, 2006
Via Therepublic.com
These activities are exploring the nature of identity, establishing peer networks and making a public sphere of influence
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Musings on myspace
This post below on myspace is interesting for a variety of reasons. After my initial excitement about Rupes buying myspace, and extolling the virtues of buying the holes in the digital cheese.
I stopped and wondered if ...
Thursday, April 20th, 2006
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Because most travel guidebooks are out of date before they hit the bookstore shelves, TripAdvisor.com of Needham, Mass., has started a guidebook-like service that will be written and edited anonymously by the Web ...
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
I came across an interesting blog today.
There was a famous French writer known simply as Exbrayat. He invented the genre of the humorous detective novel and wrote more than 100 books (plus several plays and films), on which his ...
Thursday, April 13th, 2006
In a recent post I looked at some very relevant research around peer production and also the shift from push economic models to pull economic models.
My belief is that Pull platforms harness the passion, commitment and desire to learn ...
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
What an amazing event. The bad guy in an MMROPG, gets crucified by the virtual community , because he is not playing by the rules.
Good job nobody knows where he lives. :-)
The report goes
Banning online players for ...
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