Month: March 2005

An interesting eTech session was a panel discussion on the topic of user defined categorization, known as folksonomy. Contrary to common wisdom, which indicates that only “trained professionals” can correctly choose keywords, folksonomies … Read more

Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia, gave an interesting talk at eTech this morning. Freely licensed encyclopedia, created and managed by thousands of volunteers. It was created in 2001. There are close to 500,000 … Read more

Justin F. Chapweske, CEO of Onion Networks gave a presentation at eTech to motivate the need for a better way to transfer very large files across the internet. More than bittorrent or other … Read more

Spam sucks. Of course, we know this. The point is that spam could be stopped, but the result would no longer be email as we know it today. Corey Doctorow gave a brief … Read more

Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s eTech session. His wide-ranging talk mainly focused on “making things” and the challenges and rewards that come from actually building … Read more

Sam Ruby talks about why we can’t “just use http”. Ouch. My head hurts. This is important stuff, and I do mostly understand it, but I’m not gonna do it justice by trying … Read more

Random short notes … here’s a link to the reinventing radio presentation. 10 hours of listener’s choice radio broadcast by the BBC: Suggestions came in via SMS: 150K txt msgs, from over 100K … Read more