Category Archives: Untitled, unfinished, incomplete

Flywheels and spinning plates

Photo by Mike Sweeney and shared under Creative Commons license.
Interesting conversation tonight with Greg Wolff and his wife about capturing social capital as a dynamic kind of “currency”.
I didn’t follow the discussion in its entirely, but going off on my own tangent, I did come up with a rather interesting framing of the idea… [...]

The atmosphere of community

Photo shared by Glenn Letham under a Creative Commons License.
Was thinking over the Digg and Flickr hub bubs and had an observation.
For one thing, Kathy Sierra’s mediocrity index comes to mind — where you’re either at both ends of being loved and hated (to greater and lesser degrees) or you’re in the middle, and frankly, [...]

The coming war against microspam

Off the cuff:
as microformats diffuse throughout the web, malevolent uses will inevitably rise.
if you imagine that microformats allow you to use the web as a database or as a file store, you can begin to see the parallels to the malware, spyware and viruses that have wreaked havoc upon every operating system and storage device [...]