United Kingdom Government Announces the Creation of New Institute for Web Science

The United Kingdom (UK) Government has announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science. It is designed to make the UK the hub of international research into the next generation of web and internet technologies and their commercialism, and...

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....

Abusing Terminology in the Name of the Abused

I first heard Dave Lee’s story, now posted on the BBC NEWS Web site under the headline “Smart tech reconnects Colombians,” on the radio last night on World Service Radio’s Digital Planet program. I do not listen to this program...