Monthly Archives: June 2005
How come Wikis can survive the comment spam onslaught? Humans!
Check out this great screencast, which shows that ordinary people, working together over two years, create a wikipedia post which is constantly monitored, cleaned-up and improved by an army of anonymous fans of heavy metal. Any comment spam is gone … Continue reading
Dead pages
I love dead pages about people who have long since changed what they do. For instance, Ivan Pope on Channel 4′s site is long gone (about 5 years) from PreGenesis and is now The Man Who Invented the Internet. I … Continue reading
I've been a bad blogger, but no more
After coming across too many people recently who asked why I don’t post to my blog more often, I have realised that “being too busy” wasn’t really a good enough excuse. In my defense I would like to quote the … Continue reading
Mobile craps all over Internet World, but is destined to repeat history
I went to Internet world in Earls Court today. Put it this way. There were lots of servers and lots of vendors of content management software. (Someone should tell them about Open Source and blogging). But the real buzz was … Continue reading
Nokia's global egomania
Nokia continues to want to take over the world. I am in Helsinki at one of their press conferences where no-one really answers questions. “What do you plan to do about Happy Slapping? Parental controls on the handsets?” I ask. … Continue reading