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Sir Tim Rules the Waves (of Digital Communication)
I find it unpleasantly ironic that, on the day after I filed my obituary piece about Chalmers Johnson and his efforts to stem the combined tides of American imperialists and purveyors of mind rot to impede efforts of the general public to think for themselves,...
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...
Google Defends Wittgenstein?
I continue to be amused by the fact that one of my best sources for criticizing the positivist dreams of a “semantic knowledge layer” on the World Wide Web has been Google, particularly as personified by Director of Search Peter Norvig....
Conversing with the Dead
It is very seldom that a truly personal blog post resonates with me. I figure that the blogger is writing it for the same reason that I write such things: Writing is a way of trying to bring some order to unkempt thoughts, usually on the premise...
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...
