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Foolish People
Once again, I have Chris Matyszczyk’s Technically Incorrect blog on CNET News to thank for bringing my attention to one of the darker corners of the world the Internet has made and then providing me with the opportunity to disagree with his interpretation...
Deception By Connotation
William Shakespeare may have known how to capture the romantic moment, but he did not always get it right: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; This may be true in a world of denotations; but Juliet...
Personal Technology And the War Against Reality
It has been over two years since I last wrote about the significant role that “personal technologies” play in what can only be called our deliberate efforts to deny reality. The occasion at that time was a growing movement among state...
A Very Small Value of “Semantics”
I have now encountered several articles from a variety of my RSS feeds on Google’s supposed “semantic stance” towards search, which was launched at Searchology 2009. Having now read Tom Krazit’s report for the News division...
From the Folks Who Tried to Make a Business Out of Misunderstanding Service
It has been a while since researchers at IBM Almaden Services Research tried to reduce service to a science. Whether or not this was a desperate attempt to cast the provision of service in the same mold as the manufacturing of goods, complete with...
