Page 11 of 14
Mahalo, as I noted in my launch coverage back in May, is "a search engine where users get hand crafted portal like results for common search queries." Mahalo's founder Jason Calacanis and I are both connected to Larry Sanger, so between that and being fairly intrigued by the […]
A few months ago I covered the launch of Mahalo, a new "people powered" search engine which aims to make human crafted, intelligent portals for the most common search terms (example). I explained the search engine as "based on the theory that many people are searching for the […]
I wasn't sure about whether to keep up my weekly quotes during this month of science, but since I found one that connects rather ironically with my next science topic, I took it as a sign. This quote is from Jack Cohen in "Is Biology Science?" In summer 2002, I was at the […]
I have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with science: on one hand, it provides a uniquely privileged (and fascinating) look into the mechanisms of reality. On the other, the practice of science is often distorted by institutional and financial factors, which can warp what […]
From a column entitled "How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community": Teresa invented a technique called disemvowelling removing the vowels from some or all of a fiery message board post. The advantage of this is that it leaves the words intact, but requires […]
From Paul Graham's essay, Writing, Briefly: I think it's far more important to write well than most people realize. Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you're bad at writing and don't like to do it, you'll miss out on most of the ideas writing would […]
Lawrence Lessig, speaking about the scorched earth inefficiencies of modern copyright in Free Culture: The list could go on, but the obvious point is this: Physical property and the intangible property we call copyright are different. Jefferson pointed to one difference. But the […]
From the NYT: The world’s cleverest designers, said Dr. Polak, a former psychiatrist who now runs an organization helping poor farmers become entrepreneurs, cater to the globe’s richest 10 percent, creating items like wine labels, couture and Maseratis. And iPods. Today's WWDC […]
I'm almost done with a series of posts they're on the abstract side, but they were fun to write and should be a treat to read. Expect something big 'soonish'.
Watching the political debate last night brought this quote to mind. It's not meant to be snarky. But I do think it's true. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however […]
