maybe not the best internet statistics out there, but interesting enough.

Answering Thomas' Question. Thomas Roessler asks a question in his blog – “What kind of innovation should be encouraged (or dicouraged)“? Let me answer that by citing my First Law of the Internet:  (See my blog entry at http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog-archives/000059.html) The First Law of the Internet Every person shall be free to use the Internet in […]

Information on the Assembly Line. Rats…it's a class night, and I've got to catch up on a couple chapters. So I can't do much more than make a quick blog entry for Jason Nichols' very intriguing looking masters thesis called Information on the Assembly Line (subtitled A review of Information Design and its Implications for… […]

Michael Polanyi & Tacit Knowledge. We can know more than we can tell. Consider The Tacit Dimension by

BERLIN (Reuters) – German women fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment. ——- i shop differently than many people, in that i don't really shop. i tend to identify a category of things that i need or want, […]

Vog Exhibition. Two of my vogs have been accepted for the forthcoming Slowtime…QuickTime as an artistic medium show. As an academic who apparently is developing some sort of artistic practice I find it odd to send my work to these sorts of… [Vlog 2.1] —— video logs are interesting phenomena.

he contributed to many fields, wrote many interesting books including amusing ourselves to death,technopoly, and teaching as a subversive activity. he passed away sunday evening. the obituaries started appearing wednesday night nyt: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/obituaries/09POST.html?ex=1066276800&en=285513c2b7425648&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE toronto star: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1065607300564&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968705899037

EC offering a billion euros for ICT research. From a European Commission news release, 29 Sept: “The Union's priority for R&D in Information Society Technologies (IST) aims to bring technologies closer to people, ensuring that all Europe's citizens and businesses can, and actually do benefit from technological advance…[The]… [InternetPolicy.net]

Hallucinogenic “tablets” hit Baghdad? [bOing bOing] —— is this really happening or did someone start broadcasting fox news there too?

Deflating the Blog Bubble: this guy is soooooo right….: During one of the Saturday sessions a member of the audience referred to the assembled crowd as “utopia”. Now, yes, I loved the blog camaraderie but quite frankly I don't want to be the only black person in utopia. I was the only black person in […]