It’s the 70th post of this blog which is a milestone, and it’s also a pleasant surprise that we are averaging over 3 comments per entry and climbing the technoranti list fast – so thanks to everyone who has contributed on and off line. At 70 one is allowed some indulgence so I want to […]
Its easy to get carried away with something new. We assume that if something works it will carry on working for ever, but in practice things start to break down or reach natural limits. Now we have the founder of the wikipedia creating a schism with the Citizendium in which the key differences are (and […]
I was looking up the dictionary definition of incorrigible this morning. I wanted to use it on a list serve as a response to someone who persists in believing that there is no difference between the complex and the complicated. He believes that all can be made simple and strucutred, the economy is not a […]
I was just doing a bit of research for my seminar later this week on networked government. Located at the Civil Service College in Singapore its something I’ve been looking forward to. The subject, which is one of the most important ones around at the moment, requires me to bring together a lot of current […]
I’ve been finishing off Rockwell’s Neither Brain nor Ghost which offers an interesting third way to the traditional assumption that either (i) the mind and the brain are the same thing, or (ii) the mind/soul is separate for the brain. He argues for an understanding of human consciousness as a distributed aspect of the the […]
I checked my daily watchlist on Wikipedia before settling down for an early night. This was intended as a brief final act before having an early night and hitting the ground running on work early tomorrow. However, Wikipedia’s front page was enticing and exciting, so I spent more time than planned. In part, I became […]
Sonja Blignaut brought my attention to an article from TIME on conspiracy theory. One of the most interesting assertions is that 36% of Americans consider it ‘very likely’ or ‘somewhat likely’ that government officials either allowed the attacks to be carried out or carried out the attacks themselves. The article offers the explanation that humans […]
An ambiguous posting from David Tebbutt a couple of days ago got me thinking. He talks about the way in which the current crop of children are so familiar with the web that they will have problems fitting into the constraints of a formal company culture. There were two nightmare statements there from my perspective. […]
The World happiness map has just been published. No it’s not the deranged output of some new aged fluffy bunny attempt to induce a world wide appreciation of tree hugging (although the deep red areas are generally linked to the NAFB), nor does it anticipate the return in 2012 of Quetzalcoat the feathered serpent God […]
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