August 30, 2010 – 5:30 pm
The community-powered news site Digg played an occasional role on the development of this blog. Some of the findings I posted here started, in some cases, as a spark from a Digg submission, further developed through my personal research. This is the reason why I am writing here about it. News on Digg were frequent [...]
Google decided to interrupt further development of Wave. The service itself remains active, though. I appear not to be good at predictions: a year ago, I expected Wave to take over email definitely. To be fair, a condition I added was for the server to be made public for third parties, something that never happened [...]
I am observing with great interest the development at Area51 for new Question/Answers sites to be opened with the StackExchange system. One thing that makes me cringe a bit is the very strong fragmentation. I think this stems either from the need of personal protagonism of each person (nothing bad with it, progress happens also [...]
This is something interesting. What about a prize for unscientific claims: “the Unscientist award”? At the moment, only Patrick Lockerby (the author of the post linked above) proposes such prize according to the following rules: the potential candidate must either make use of an already debunked argument, a logical fallacy, or (verbatim) “self-aggrandising puerile prosey [...]
October 6, 2009 – 12:44 am
I am currently at Stansted, waiting for my flight. After two very intense days, I must say. The Amazing Meeting was already amazing by sheer definition, but it went beyond that. Great showmen and great scientists. Interesting discussions ranging from science to philosophy, psychology, and freedom of press. Magicians performed in front of my very [...]
