The BBC reported a few days ago that: Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The idea is that people are using the web to get things done, and don’t seem to notice that service providers want them to stick around. They even get tetchy with intrusions or… Read More
Posts Tagged ‘interesting’
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Tags: Amazon.co.uk, Digital, editorial, Facebook, Google, ideas, interesting, Jakob Nielsen, Land Rover Discovery 3, online marketing, particular site, previously-read author, reading, Tesco, the Times, Vienna, Web 2.0, Web Users, web works
Category: Digital, Semantic Web, Travel No Comments
I just watched this talk by Richard Baraniuk (link if embed doesn’t work), about opening up access to educational text and information. One of the most amazing ideas from his talk and the project they’re working on (Connections) is open-sourced text books. The idea is that collaborative text-books, published on-demand could answer more questions and… Read More
Monday, May 19th, 2008 Tags: abstract, Education, ideas, interesting, Richard Baraniuk, Semantic Web, semantics
Category: Semantic Web 4 Comments
I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’—”Wallpaper“—in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as ‘pretentious’ if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable behaviour or traits are… Read More
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Tags: abstract, dialogue, ideas, interesting, Jacqui Smith, Stephen Fry, Tony Blair, wine
Category: Uncategorized No Comments
It’s the transition which hits you. From begging your interlocutor to understand you—to even bend a little in your direction—to being understood so effortlessly but still being in an unfamiliar place. This is traveling from France to Amsterdam. In France, making an effort to speak French is mandatory; yet still everyone looks at you as… Read More
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Tags: Amsterdam, coffee, dialogue, editorial, France, interesting, me, Travel, United Kingdom
Category: Travel 2 Comments
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on the Semantic Web lately, and its primary feature from the perspective of a writer is a difficulty of easy definition. It avoids simple sobriquet and isn’t explained without analogy and lengthy description. The best way I have come to think of the whole system is as… Read More
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Tags: Digital, ideas, interesting, introduction, Nicolas Cynober, nova spivack, Radar Technologies, semantic, Semantic Web, Tim Berners Lee, Web Talk, writer
Category: Digital, Semantic Web No Comments
