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- The End of MySpace • January 24, 2007
MySpace has made the classic gamble that short-term gain will trump long-term stability. And like so many Web 1.0 companies that came before them, MySpace is headed for a big, clumsy fall. - The Jukebox in the Sky • January 17, 2007
Is music distribution going to follow the RealNetworks Rhapsody model and become a "jukebox in the sky"? Or are people going to continue buying tracks to store on their own systems? - Share This: A WordPress Plug-in • January 15, 2007
[Quick reminder before we get underway: my Jewish Marxist Werewolves in Bolivia Infoquake giveaway contest is still open! Deadline is this Friday, and lots of opportunity for you -- yes, you -- to win a signed copy of the book.] I’ve nearly completed all the modifications I wanted to make on this blog for 2007. [...] - Why Is Gmail So Irritating? • December 20, 2006
Gmail should be a slam-dunk for Google. So why is it so irritating? - Contemplating My Next Laptop • December 4, 2006
As a nice, juicy little carrot to inspire me to finish writing "MultiReal," I've decided that I'm going to finally buy a new laptop once I'm done. So the question is: which one? - Reverse Engineering the Turing Test • October 25, 2006
As part of the research for my next book, MultiReal, I’ve been thinking a lot about mind uploading. Mind uploading is a transhumanist concept wherein you take a human brain and digitize it. We’re not just talking about scanning and mapping here; the goal is to have a fully functioning mind that can exist outside [...] - Random Things Not Worth a Full Blog Post • October 17, 2006
Where have I been the past few weeks and why haven’t I been blogging? Take your pick: Freeboating at a fancy-schmancy LexisNexis conference in Boston with my wife Diligently avoiding sharp objects in an attempt to avoid despair at the still-unfinished state of MultiReal, the sequel to Infoquake Falling increasingly behind on a number of [...] - Will Open Source Software Rule the World? • September 26, 2006
A few people have pointed me to this discussion about Infoquake on the Asimov’s forums. Some of the forum participants appear to be skeptical about Infoquake because it doesn’t embrace open source software as the end-all, be-all of human existence. I could point out that one shouldn’t necessarily take anything one reads in a science [...] - coComment Does Web 2.0 Right • September 14, 2006
Despite last week's rant about too much web 2.0 hype, I've made one discovery recently that's made my life a lot easier. It's called coComment. coComment keeps track of all the comments you make on blogs throughout the web so you don't have to go Googling for them yourself. - Meta-ing Ourselves to Death • September 4, 2006
I'm starting to get that dot-com bubble burst feeling again. There are too many meta information tools out there with shaky revenue streams.