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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Authority and unPresenting
I enjoyed the mini-conference, Blogging – a new conversation? yesterday. Whose authority? I was supposed to talk about whether blogs were “the new source of authority”. This gave me an
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links for 2010-03-11
Foresight crowd sourcing Dave Snowden's doing an experiment in collecting stories around the future of public services. It's a novel approach that could subvert "expert researchers" & I recommend giving
11 March 2010
Transcending language
Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman: I don’t think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies
7 January 2013
The language of branding
I’m feeling more and more uneasy about the language of marketing/branding. I’ve felt this unease for a long time, but I’m finding it harder and harder to ignore or even tolerate.
21 January 2004