Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet

Great news! Radar Networks, the venture I’ve been building, has received its first round of outside funding from Vulcan Capital. We are heavily in stealth mode. Related Posts:Radar Networks Announces Twine.comFolktologies — Beyond the Folksonomy vs. Ontology DistinctionPowerpoint Deck: Making Sense of the Semantic Web, and TwineWeb 3.0 Roundup: Radar Networks, Powerset, Metaweb and Others…What [...]

Check out http://www.facster.com/ — it’s a site that provides some cool features on top of the US Statistical Abstracts and State Abstracts data-sets. This site seems to be just the kind of "statistics portal" I daydreamed about a while back. Very useful idea. Related Posts:Video: My Talk on The Future of Libraries — "Library 3.0"Privacy [...]

After 30 years of research, a very interesting new theory of cognition has been announced. The theory posits that all human cognition and behavior is based on just one simple, non-algorithmic procedure that has been named confabulation. If the theory is correct it could offer a radical new approach to artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery, and [...]

First of all I know Clay Shirky, and he’s a good fellow. But he’s simply wrong about his claim that "tagging" (of the flavor that is appearing on del.icio.us — what I call "social tagging") is inherently better than the use of formal ontologies. Clay favors the tagging approach because it is bottom-up and emergent [...]

Google has a very nice iterative suggestion feature in beta — http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en It’s quite fast! Very nice. Kudos to the Google team! Related Posts:Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom GruberVideo: My Talk on The Future of Libraries — "Library 3.0"Fast Company Interview — "Connective Intelligence"My Visit to DERI — World's Premier Semantic Web [...]

Frank Drake, the originator of the present-day radio-telescope-driven search for extraterrestrial intelligence — has written an editorial suggesting that his famous Drake Equation may need an update. In short, he believes his equation should be changed because there may be a lot more intelligent life out there than has been previously suggested. Related Posts:British Ministry [...]

Change This, a project that helps to promote interesting new ideas so that they get noticed above the noise level of our culture has published my article on “A Physics of Ideas” as one of their featured Manifestos. They use an innovative PDF layout for easier reading, and they also provide a means for readers [...]

Researchers from U. Chicago and Microsoft Asia have developed a new Web indexing algorithm called BlockRank that ranks pages according to which sections (“blocks”) of content on other pages contain links to them. The results are said to be similar to Google’s PageRank algorithm. Related Posts:Sneak Peak – Siri — Interview with Tom GruberVideo: My [...]

This is an idea for a new way to navigate interactively through large audio sets, such as collections of thousands of music tracks, and to automatically or interactively learn and evolve interesting trajectories through such spaces. Related Posts:Powerpoint Deck: Making Sense of the Semantic Web, and TwineRadar Networks Announces Twine.comListen to this Discussion on the [...]

In August of 2003, I posted an article that suggested the SETI folks ought to look at our own DNA to see if there happens to be a hidden message from aliens in there waiting to be discovered. Putting a message in human DNA, particularly in the junk DNA regions, is guaranteed (a) not to [...]

Draft 1.1 for Review (integrates some fixes from readers) Nova Spivack (www.mindingtheplanet.net) INTRODUCTION This article presents some thoughts about the future of intelligence on Earth. In particular, I discuss the similarities between the Internet and the brain, and how I believe the emerging Semantic Web will make this similarity even greater. DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE The Semantic [...]