TheWayoftheWeb

As always my plans to spend a weekend dedicated to catching up, and even getting ahead, on my blogging etc seem to have been destroyed before Friday is even over, thanks to a horrible noise from the exhaust on my car. I guess that’s what you get for buying something cheap and unusual!
And that clumsily [...]

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I’ve had several conversations about user generated content with my colleague and fellow blogger David Cushman (and you can read his take here.)
Any online submission or rating system needs to have some reward to make the time invested worthwhile. And most of the current models use recognition as that reward, including Digg and Del.icio.us.
But the [...]

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I can finally sit and type long enough without sneezing to start catching up….so…
Something worth plugging is the ‘One Child, One Laptop‘ initiative, which has had fun poked at it, but is now here. $200 gives one laptop, and from November $400 gives a laptop, and gets you one for your own kids…or yourself… The [...]

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I’ve been playing around with various sites recently, so here’s some thoughts:
www.mahalo.com : Human-powered search engine.
It’s a nice idea, to have valid results compiled by an expert, but at the current level of answers, it just isn’t going to provide what I need. Most times I’m searching I want to find a quick [...]

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