I was going to do this Thursday night but I got sidetracked. Dan Brown at the The London Free Press took up my challenge (which was “both 100% ironic and 100% sincere at the same time”) to “take a few hours or a few months to figure out what really matters” and compose it into [...]
web 3.0
‘Tis a melancholy experience for anyone who browses through this great medium, to see so much content of low and dubious quality, so much wasted time and energy, so much gaming and spamming and jockeying for attention. A once powerful conduit of ideas and insight, a meeting place of the world’s sharpest minds tackling the [...]
Back before the bubble-bust of 2000, there was a guy at my university — let’s call him Gordie — who tried convincing a couple of my business student friends that the future of the web would be less about e-commerce and more about entertainment. Our business friends didn’t buy the argument. They insisted rather that [...]
