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I heard about this before everyone else. I was walking around Cleveland Circe Reservoir and saw someone taking measurement of the water quality. This reservoir wasn't used for wate…

Min-Kyu Choijust won The Brit Insurance design of the year prize.

This is like asking people to report an individual spam email from an email spammer who pumps out a million an hour. This is like fighting an army with a pistol.

The Jerusalem roof is the new spiritual catacomb.

I though it was Matt's job description to noindex pages? Oh, I get it now, he delegates, let the patients run the asylum...

Is the Google page rank algorithm messing up our culture?

the most important book about the internet in a decade. and the internet is about a decade old really. so this must be the most important book ever.

Some of the tweets I collected from Alain de Botton and Nassim Taleb.

This is not a small matter, this destroys the internet for the rest of us. The Internet becomes unusable and untrustworthy. And you are doing this in a profitable collusion with Go…

The internet is only moving in the direction where Google points and Google favors quantity over quality. All Internet problems flow from this Google unstated rule. Google would ra…

What is "Web 2.0 Sharing" is all about?

Agree about the book.

Jaron Lanier is the most significant thinker in tech today. Here is his long lecture, this is the most important video in the last 15 years: http://zocalopublicsquare.org/full_vide…

The most significant lecture of the decade.

Dissatisfied with the Social Media

When people say it is easier to destroy they mean to demolish, like blowing up a stadium or something. But obviously the original metaphor that claims an easy destruction is not in…

What Google 'suggested' lists tell us about people.

The origin of the name "Tsar". The story of Princess Zoe, Zachariah the Jew and the Worst Political Move in Papal History.