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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Becoming the sort of leader you’d feel like following
When I wrote the page for our upcoming residential workshop, I included the idea of “becoming the sort of leader you’d feel like following”. It could be a glib throwaway line,
12 May 2016
Being Wrong
I watched this TED Talk by Kathryn Schulz yesterday: On Being Wrong. One thing stuck in my mind. Schulz asks a few people what it’s like to be wrong, and
26 January 2018
Whose value?
Vajra left a good comment (on my post about Twitter) questioning the notion that any activity must have a result that is valuable to the observer regardless of the value
24 May 2007
“Neutral” election coverage
Thoughtful piece by Jay Rosen (via David Weinberger) challenging conventional coverage of the US elections. The Every Four Years approach further pretends that the professional ideal of a neutral fact-finding,
29 September 2004
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