The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work.
– Miikka Ryokas computer science student quoted in the NY Times.
Hat tip: John Winsor
The underground will never work
A nice example of terrible prediction.
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Pointless, again
Grant and Tom both dispute this article by Lance Ulanoff: MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. Ulanoff begins: Don’t get too attached to MySpace.
YouTube and the end of the world as we know it
I guess that “It will lead to chaos” counts as a high-energy varitation of “it will never work” which means this item becomes my second
It’ll never work
Inspired by a post by Earl Mardle I’ve added a new category to this blog, It’ll Never Work. I’ll use it to flag stories about
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Co-creation
I noticed that Wikipedia didn’t have a page for co-creation which struck me as a bit ironic as wikipedia is one of the finest examples of it. So James John
24 October 2006
Spontaneous humour vs telling jokes
Just sneaked out of the conference to catch up on the blog. Best nugget from yesterday was an idea passed on by Gary Schwartz. Gary was discussing the value of
7 November 2003
links for 2010-06-01
Probing the link between slaughterhouses and violent crime – thestar.com A researcher suggests there may be a link between working in a slaughterhouse and committing crime in the community. This
1 June 2010
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