Things added in May, 2006
Edge: Jaron Lanier on Digital Maoism
Jaron Lanier says Wikipedia's not only stupid, it's "boring": DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
Kings of All Media
Kings of All MediaAdding a computer to your home theater no longer means crossing your fingers and hoping for the best. All of the rigs here handle video and audio with aplomb, ...
Get blacklisted by Google in just one day!
Last week, my haiku site, tinywords, appeared as the 30th-40th result on a search for haiku on Google. This week, it's not in the top 500. What happened?I think ...
How to facilitate great conversations on your blog.
The essence of good conversation is give and take. The problem blog-based "conversations" is that the essential give and take is almost always missing. I might say something provocative on my blog, ...
Star dot-com analyst recants.
Technologists think their business is the creation of cool technologies, because they are engineers who thrill to the idea of change. By contrast, Coburn says, "technology is widely hated by its users," ...
Google’s embarrassing mistake.
I think it's time we all agreed that the "nofollow" tag has been a complete failure.For those of you new to the concept, nofollow is a tag that blogs can add ...
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler.
The premise of Kindred is that Dana, an African-American woman living in the late 1970s, is suddenly transported back in time to a Maryland slave plantation ...
10,000 digital sheep.
Best application for MTurk I've seen yet: Someone asked people to "draw a sheep facing left." Compensation per sheep: $0.02. Total number of sheep drawn: 10,000. Their web site shows ...