I had no real desire to add to the noise about Google’s new Google Base service, being as how I had nothing to add. But I’m delighted to point to Paul Ford’s latest over on ftrain, wherein he sticks it to Business 2.0, a publication of suspect ethics. In a nutshell: they stole his work, so he play...

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Oh but this is interesting and creepy and ... well, let us just wait and see.

Nicholas Carr posted about the Mechanical Turk now lurking within Amazon. the idea is simple and complex. People are better at some things than computers. So tell your computer program to enlist human help when it ne...

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The flood of comment spam was getting really bad, so for a while back there I turned off commenting. But it made no difference. I didn’t really understand what was going on, although I’ve been reading a bit about splogs, which as ever are mucking things up for everyone. But I still don’t really...

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I’m being deluged with comment spam. OK, so it isn’t showing up on the site, thanks to WP’s excellent filtering. But it is annoying. And hardly anyone ever sends a genuine comment. So I’ve blocked commenting for now. I’ll restore it in a while and see whether the shitstorm has died down. If you’re d...

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Of course I had broken the first rule of messing with the machine: do one thing at a time. So the fact that my iBook, upgraded to Tiger, and after a brief flirtation with BitTorrent and some ignorant port jiggery-pokery, no longer seemed able to connect to my Airport Express was completely unfathoma...

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