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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links for 2010-08-18
Competition Makes Groups More Creative « Creativity & Innovation I have mixed feelings about the how competition affects creativity… sometimes it feels like it adds excitement more than wisdom. But
18 August 2010
Made me smile
I’m not a big fan of rules and lists but I enjoyed stumbling into this online: Jeff Mellor’s Grammer and Style Rules
19 June 2004
A favourite word
I’m not a fan of jargon but I do have a soft spot for “disintermediation”. It’s what happens to industries where a middleman is rendered obsolete by innovation. It has
25 March 2005
Attentiveness and the perils of training
It’s not every day I get to quote Jean Paul Sartre not least because I’ve never read him. But Brian Alger points to this quote, approvingly. The attentive pupil who
7 October 2004
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