Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

The Metaweb is not just the set of all Weblog posts, it is much more than that. As much as I love to blog I think many old-timers would have us view the entire Net through “blog colored glasses.” But Weblog postings are just one kind of microcontent. There will be many others. Related Posts:New [...]

Originally developed at Netscape, a new technology called RSS has risen from the dead to ignite the next-evolution of the Net. RSS represents the first step in a major new paradigm shift — the birth of “The Metaweb.” The Metaweb is the next evolution of the Web — a new layer of the Web in [...]

Our advisor Paul Ford, has replied to Clay Shirky’s critique of the Semantic Web with a truly excellent articleabout why the Semantic Web is indeed practical. I found Clay’s article to be very one-sided. Like Paul, I agree with Clay that the futuristic goals of some Semantic Web researchers in academia are well…futuristic. Here at [...]

This is incredible — brain scan study can identify “latent racism” and people who are racist seem to perform poorly on mental tests after racist episodes because racism exhausts the brain. Wow. Related Posts:Big Thinkers' Most Dangerous IdeasUsing Nanoparticles to Augment Human Brains…?A World Without ElephantsThe Next Sexual Revolution?20% of Your Genes Belong to Them

A company is now selling a trojan-horse e-card service to jealous lovers. The idea is that you send a “missing you” or “thinking of you” e-card to someone you want to spy on, and when they open it a trojan is installed on their computer that then secretly sends you every keystroke they type. As [...]

According to Reverse Speech theorists the mind embeds reverse messages in ordinary speech. This is not so outlandish a claim — it is known that the brain uses reversal at a very fundamental level in language and perception. Check out this summary of reverse speech results to see some very interesting cases — in particular [...]