A great expose on the way thatself-righteous activists blunder around the globe taking on causes to get one over on youand causing only damage to the people they profess to care about. The technique of selecting foreign causes works especially well for those activists and celebrities desperate to be perceived as being more erudite and […]
I am looking forward to reading the upcoming bio ofGrothendiek. Grothendiek’s autobiographical notes are deeply human; more like an introspection diary ala ‘Markings’ than a narrative. For example, his comments on independent thinking:
?These years of isolation laid the foundation for a faith that has never been shaken - neither by the discovery (arriving in Paris […]
In keeping with yesterday’s theme, I’ll present another of my favorite metaphors for the semantic web: ?Neurotransmitters for the Global Mind?. You see, each new advance in technology makes it easier for humans to communicate amongst ourselves. And if you think of people as being individual neurons, and our modes of communication as the neurotransmitters […]
Scoble just sent me a message about this new Channel 9 video, showing JP Stewart’s car mods. It’s the same hacker spirit directed into hand-coding BIOSes for gaming console mod chips, or writing bittorrent trackers, or any number of other things that are exciting despite (and maybe because) you can’t really make money doing them. […]
When I first read Ries’ ?22 Immutable Laws of Marketing?, I remember comparing it to Microsoft’s own experience of marketing and wondering, ?if Microsoft violates so many of these laws, why are we so successful?? Microsoft has a long history of attempting to ?extend? the ?Windows Brand? into other categories, one of the more severe […]