The LA Times ran an unusual editorial yesterday. Here’s the first sentence:
Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden. — It’s not journalism - Los Angeles Times
A greater threat than Osama bin Laden. But in the very next paragraph it says that Google News, [...]
A man spends 10-20 hours every day with a woman in a virtual world. He “marries” her. Is he cheating on his flesh and blood wife? Of course he is. He may not be having sex with his virtual mistress but marriage is about a lot more than who you have sex with.
Sitting alone in [...]
I’ve been a fan of The Art of War—the famous Chinese military treatise written in the 6th century B.C.—for a long time. Particularly, the Lionel Giles translation which was originally published in 1910 and is now in the public domain (and in digital e-book form thanks to Project Gutenberg).
I’ve been wanting to do a web [...]
Zooomr is still not live and the situation doesn’t look good. Their database server crashed just 15 minutes after Mark III launched. In their latest blog post, Kristopher makes a desperate plea for hardware and help. Is this the end of Zooomr? I hope not. But whether it ever comes back online or not, recent [...]
I wish Zooomr the best of luck launching Mark III. At the same time, as a developer interested in their open API, I can’t help but wonder about the cause of the complete failure of Mark III to launch anywhere near on time. It’s now six days late (not counting the aborted attempt in April) [...]
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