Archive for January 20th, 2006
Wisdom of the crowd, not
Friday, January 20th, 2006One of the memes of web 2.0 is the Wisdom of the crowd. I’ve always been suspicious that the wisdom of the crowd is not always that wise. A couple of weeks ago, an O’Reilly Network editor was accused of stealing Digg’s CSS pages. Problem one is that this accusation was completely false. Problem two, [...]
Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service
Friday, January 20th, 2006From Popular elements of a 2006 web site or service: A lot of the features and functionality of so-called Web 2.0 sites are now common elements in most current web apps and sites. It’s really gone beyond what was labelled ‘Web 2.0′ last year, because so many mainstream websites are now using these elements. The [...]
The Backhoe, The Internet’s Natural Enemy
Friday, January 20th, 2006A study issued last month by the Common Ground Alliance, or CGA — an industry group comprised of utilities and construction companies — calculated that there were more than 675,000 excavation accidents in 2004 in which underground cables or pipelines were damaged. A reminder that the most vulnerable parts of our critical infrastructures lie literally [...]
