First, three posts by JP Rangaswami:
Does the Web make experts dumb?
Does the Web make esperts dumb, Part 2: who is the teacher?
Does the Web make experts dumb, Part 3: the issues
His bottom line in the last of those: “… people are saying the web…
Archives for August 2010
Asymmetry by Choice
24 August 2010 by
Perhaps the most powerful form of asymmetric information is missing from JP Rangaswami’s post addressing whether the web is making us dumber. I agree with the core point of JP’s article, but I think he oversimplifies the argument on asymmetry in a …
Declarative References to Data
20 August 2010 by
The following blog post by Phil Windley of Kynetx describes the concept of declarative references to data:
http://www.windley.com/archives/2010/08/beyond_apis_declarative_references_to_data.shtml
Basically, the idea is that with XRI and XDI, it is poss…
XDI, Semantic Web
18 August 2010 by
Comparing two “standards” stacks and one implementation project (Higgins):