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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A long moment one wartime dawn – and its lessons
In Us and Them David Berreby tells the story of a band of WWII British commandos who have captured a senior German commander, General Heinrich Kreipe. The Brits are moving
6 October 2009
De-coded
Tim O’Reilly’s proposal for a bloggers code of conduct is looking increasingly forlorn. Over at gapingvoid Kathy Sierra rejects it. And Tristan Louis gives it a well-deserved fisking (hat tip:
10 April 2007
Enclosing the commons?
Alan Moore has a long and thought-provoking post on what seems like a looming battle between forces of openness and control when it comes to the future of networks. Central
23 November 2009
links for 2010-05-30
FTC protects journalism’s past « BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis presents a textbook case of the establishment circling the wagons… the only comfort being that it does so mostly ineffectually
30 May 2010