Misc

I have noticed two things while flying: If I am typing or reading a newspaper, I will often see my

Speech after long silence … … I haven’t posted for a while. I have been on a trip each week for

The BBC is a major resource which faces interesting challenges moving forward. It is funded through a license fee, basically

I suggested a while ago in these pages that one reason for the wide use of Wikipedia was that it

Think about conferences in those big rooms with disco balls or chandaliers, with makeshift screens, projectors on trollies, ugly lines

An administrative note: we have turned off commenting, temporarily I hope. There has been an upsurge again in comment spam

A while ago I wrote an entry noting the general trend towards decomposition and recomposition of parts at various levels,

Paul Kedrosky in Business 2.0: > The current obsession with simplicity beats making products stupidly complex. But it’s

Bono interviewed by Oprah: > I’m not the happiest person, and I’m certainly not happy-clappy. There’s a

Well, teetering beween a liking for lists and a po-faced disinclination to be frivolous I am leaning to lists. In

I notice that Microsoft has set up Live Labs [https://labs.live.com/], a rapid development and prototyping group which

I write [https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/publications.htm] slowly. In that regard I have found doing the