A nice example of terrible prediction.
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.
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Works in practice only
The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work. – Miikka Ryokas computer science student quoted in
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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The attention economy
Rob Paterson has picked up on an article by Michael Goldhaber which argues that the ability to create attention is the way to create wealth in the information economy.
20 October 2004
V-flyer and granularity
Here’s an interesting site I stumbled upon yesterday: v-flyer.com, a customer-owned site about Virgin Atlantic with over 200,000 unique visitors a month. This is how it describes itself: Welcome to
10 August 2006
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
Jeff Jarvis talks about the Gutenberg Parenthesis. Those who bemoan the supposed short attention spans of the networked generation typically measure this by the capacity or willingness to read a
23 November 2010
Feedback
Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow also has interesting stuff to say about feedback. He draws an interesting contrast between radiologists and anesthesiologists. The latter are likely to see the
10 July 2012
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