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Paul Buchheit on The most important thing to understand about new products and startups: For web based products at least, there's another very powerful technique: release early and iterate. The sooner you can start testing your ideas, the sooner you can start fixing them. I […]
As a few readers of this blog know, since last summer I've been working on a large writing project. The tentative plan is for a book, and the release date is unknown. I'm about 60,000 words in, most of the argumentative structure and key points are there, and there's lots and […]
They say that discussing politics can be like pulling teeth. So, as long as I'm at it, here are some political musings before I head out to get my wisdom teeth out. Geek icon RU Sirius of the webzine 10 Zen Monkeys has called for the creation of an Open Source Party in American […]
A contemplation for a Sunday night America's founding fathers meant for the Constitution to be a living and binding governance document. To both guide and reflect the shape of America's government, and to be amended as things came up. However, though we're still bound by the […]
Citizendium, the wiki encyclopedia I volunteer with, is holding a call for essays about which free content license we should choose for our content. It's an open call for essays, so even if you're not a member of Citizendium and have an opinion you're encouraged to write it up […]
Dear Readers, Here's a quick update on what I've been up to and blog plans: 1. I've written an article for the Wikipedia community newsletter, the Wikipedia Signpost. It covers what's been going on at Citizendium, our future plans, why Wikipedians should care about Citizendium, […]
A lot has been said about Andrew Keen's new book, The Cult of the Amateur, in which he argues that the products of user driven content communities (e.g., Wikipedia) often compare poorly to those produced by more traditional institutions. Over at the Wikipedia Signpost, Wikipedia […]
What I'd do with a research lab, part 3: Test a pet theory regarding Dark Energy Working hypothesis: There is a fairly elegant modification to gravity that may explain Dark Energy, and that current MOND theories do not touch upon. We've known since 1929 that our universe is […]
From the New York Times article Make Money, Save the World, on efforts to decompartmentalize modern philanthropy by encouraging 'for benefit corporations' or 'for profit charities': “There’s a big movement out there that is not yet recognized as a movement,” said R. Todd […]
Working hypothesis: There are substantial arguments from Physics, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, and Entropy that intelligent life could only arise in a universe with exactly three macroscopic spacial dimensions. If that seems overly technical, I'm taking a stab at […]
