I’ve just found out about Wikinomics, a new book exploring the power of collaboration and how it can not only add value to a company, but absolutely change the playing field. An example from the Newsfactor.com story:
When Rob McEwan became CEO of Goldcorp, he and company geologists knew that their property contained untapped [...]
Bruce Perens over at Technocrat has started a thread on if George Bush is even competent to be president, based on how out of touch his plans to send even more troops to Iraq make him seem. Smart discussions on the comments, both for and against, including the very important point of intelligence having [...]
No need to say too much about Apple’s insanely gorgeous, crazy expensive iPhone, other than to comment that probably the screens on the first generation will scratch very easily (he said, dripping with spite, trying to convince himself he didn’t crave one). Besides, Scott Kurtz said it all.
Perhaps even more interesting than the [...]
It’s taken me quite a while, but I’ve uploaded some photographs from a trip I took to Romania in December 2004-January 2005. They’re mostly mementos, so there’s hardly anything there to hang on a wall - still those interested in gothic architecture can probably consider it castle porn. I’ll be adding some more [...]
Leave it to Microsoft to hail the digital decade and talk of connected experiences years after people discover social networking, file sharing, and plug their earphones into each other’s iPods.
Truth be told, their implementation of connected all-in-one devices - like an Xbox 360 that can show digital video and mushc - would be appealing, if [...]
Researchers in Harvard University believe they’ve found a new source for stem cells - the amniotic fluid.
The Harvard scientists say the stem cells they found in amniotic fluid seem to have many of the qualities of embryonic stem cells.
The scientists, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, were writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
They say [...]
Joel Spolsky has a lengthy post on his blog about Microsoft bribing bloggers with laptops. Robert Scobble thought it was a great idea, but Joel disagrees.
Just because it’s someones job to do something, doesn’t make it ethical. Robert, your logic is faulty. Unless you want to assume that anything that Edelman does in the name [...]
How come I didn’t know about Krugle? It’s a search engine geared towards software developers, that helps you search for freely-available source code, projects and technical pages. Moreover, it’s got Wiki-like capabilities where if you find an useful piece of code that has no comments, you can annotate it for the [...]
Cory Doctorow pours on a healthy helping of sarcasm with this post.
Marginal Revolution has a brief analysis by Tyler Cowen of a New York Times article called “A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School“. Great discussion about causation versus correlation in the comments. The title, of course, is a joke on that very topic.
From the article:
The one social factor that [...]