Note the position of this opening quotation mark in a Globe headline over a story on Howard Hyde, the NS man who died recently after being tasered – an appalling tragedy by any measure. Move it one word to the right, and the meaning is that the Globe is reporting that Hyde was “running for […]

Just a note on a new addition to the blogroll: Madisonian.net, a blog about law, technology and society written by five U.S. law professors, here writing about open search.

Mathew posts on Sir Tim’s anointment of “social graph”, a term that I assume Dave Winer invented. As Mathew notes, Berners-Lee remarks that connecting to the hive mind involves some amount of surrender: “The less inviting side of sharing is losing some control. Indeed, at each layer — Net, Web, or Graph — we have […]

You’ll cry and then you’ll cry some more.

You’ll cry, you’ll laugh.