The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.
– Miikka Ryokas computer science student quoted in the NY Times.
Hat tip: John Winsor
The underground will never work
A nice example of terrible prediction.
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Pointless, again
Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins: Don’t get too attached to MySpace.
YouTube and the end of the world as we know it
I guess that “It will lead to chaos” counts as a high-energy varitation of “it will never work” which means this item becomes my second
It’ll never work
Inspired by a post by Earl Mardle I’ve added a new category to this blog, It’ll Never Work. I’ll use it to flag stories about
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Self or self-esteem?
New York magazine has more coverage of Carol Dweck’s research (which I posted about earlier): How Not to Talk to Your Kids. Here is one of the experiments reported. Kids
1 April 2007
Skype conference
I tried Skype conferencing today for the first time. It happened spontaneously. I was skyping Tony Goodson when another call came from Bruce Lewin so I just turned it into
15 March 2004
This looks like fun
I think I’ll have to try out the new exhibit in the giant Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern gallery. Looks a lot of fun. And a real object of
10 October 2006
Relationships and ideas
A few days ago I blogged about insight being “the popcorn of therapy” and sparked some interesting comments. Today, this jumped out from a post by Rob Paterson. Ideas do
22 February 2007