Web 2.0 Coming in for a Hard Landing?
Kate Carruthers There is increasing comment out on the net that we are heading for another dot bomb disaster – but worse than last time. A good example is this on slashdot.…
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Unskilled & Unaware – the Kruger Dunning Model
Just read an article by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) from Cornell University about the way that people who know less about a particular area overestimate their own skills…
Reading – Vindication of the Rights of Women
Needed a break from reading Dante’s Inferno (I can only take so much of hell in one go) so I decided to re-read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights…
Quotation: Infringement of Human Freedom (Pitt the Younger)
Just came across an apt quotation for our times by William Pitt (the younger) from a speech in the House of Commons (November 18, 1783): “Necessity is the plea for…
Reading – The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Currently reading Dante’s Inferno in the Everyman edition of the The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso. It is one of those canonical classics that I’ve never bothered to read and…
Current reading: Blink – by Malcolm Gladwell
Currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It is a bit scary to think that many of our decisions are made sub-rationally.
grasshoppers – ning v. facebook?
Chris Brogan has been experimenting with a new social network called ‘grasshoppers’ – people helping people. He has created it in two places: Ning and Facebook (although it did seem…
5 Worst Websites – TIME
the 5 top websites to avoid (according to Time) are: eHarmony.com eVite.com Meez.com MySpace.com SecondLife.com Agree with them regarding Myspace & SecondLife, but eVite just looks like it needs a…
Women in ICT – Setup for Success Workshops
AIIA and ACS recently ran the SET Up for Success workshops in Australia. These are designed to help advance the careers of women in the ICT industry, with a one-day…
US ruling makes server RAM a ‘document’?
Sometimes I think that judges have not quite joined the 21st century! Suspect this one does not know what RAM actually is and how it is used? Talk about things…