http://www.nymag.com/news/media/15972/
An interesting graph of how the 50 most popular weblogs out in the wild link to each other. Looking at this, one gets the feeling that a side effect of web-based social networking is cliques. How can we avoid it? How does someone new break in? (Robert Scoble has some ideas.)
"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said." But consolidation is a dangerous road.
"To labour out of love, and to choose to share their work freely in a market society, OSS developers find themselves in a position where they are vulnerable to exploitation and harm."
"AI only needs 150 words to identify me. What does that mean for you?"
AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.
