technology, ecommerce and other ramblings
What do you do when too many students are USING Wikipedia to write their term papers – throw out the term paper and make them write Wikipedia articles! Freaking brilliant. This is exactly the type of thinking we have to promote! If people are cheating on their term papers – take the resource out of … Read more
I’m not sure how much of the jockeying you’ve been following – but there has been an interesting topic I have been following with Republican candidate Ron Paul. If you look at Paul’s number back in July from a USA Today/Gallup poll: Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support. … Read more
Another great 37signal article talking about innovation which tries to address the idea that sometime you have to move a little outside the box, even if it makes people a bit uncomfortable. “Companies that lead need to be willing to say that occasional growing pains are ok. If a company only listens to what customers … Read more
The auction is heating up for the 700MHz band. This could be the future of wireless internet in the US. The battle for the 700 MHz wireless spectrum has begun. It is both a business and political battle, while the issues are very technical. The US government is holding an auction in January to sell … Read more
I found a great article on 43 Folders on Becoming a tagging kung-fu master – it does a really good job with some of the key concepts of tagging and some things I had not thought about. You’ve heard the hype about tagging. You’ve seen people flocking to sites like Flickr and del.icio.us,where they jump … Read more