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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Enough already
Oli Barrett has two related posts about not over-doing things. In that spirit my blogging activity for today will consist of pointing to them.
1 February 2008
A post about postmodernism
Believe it or not I have a piece of paper from Oxford University saying I hold a degree in Philosophy and Politics. Actually I have a hard time believing it
13 November 2005
Living in the present
Harold Jarche pulled this chunk from Ekso Kilpis’ post on Complexity. The new world between chance and choice. Kilpis is looking at complexity science and the light it casts on
16 April 2010