When do ideas cease to be free?
Two websites were brought to my attention recently, the first is Open Source Ideas and the second (very similar in name) Open Ideas. It prompted me to google the terms “Open Source Ideas” and I...
View ArticleMonetizing Word of Mouth: Towards New Ad Spaces
I want to share the following idea for a new WordPress plugin or Open Source widget in the hope that someone might either: implement it; bring an existing implementation of the idea to light; critique...
View ArticleMille Feuille or Mont Blanc? Musings on RockMelt, the Social Browser
Like a mille feuille or a mont blanc pastry, this post is intended to be short and sweet; a light gathering of thoughts, sprinkled with icing sugar. Any extension of this post by way of comments and...
View ArticleFacebook, the domain, and a call for a new Web
Back in 1990 a select group of computer scientists in the post-industrial world witnessed the birth of a powerful communications tool, something that had been in the offing under various technical...
View ArticleStationery fetishes and old world geekery
This is a short post I dreamt up while my finger hovered over the mouse button for an order of 30 sets of index flags. Yes, that’s right thirty. These are no ordinary index flags by any stretch of the...
View ArticleWhat do we value most? The medium, the message or the data structure?
One day last week the thought suddenly occurred to me that I had mislaid my iPod. Gripped with panic, I spent the next 5 minutes rummaging through bag, coat and jeans pockets. Nothing. I tried...
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