Why are we failing at math and science? Because it isn’t fun any more. When you put safety on the highest altar, what do you give up? When fear of lawsuits — not to mention fear of technology — drives product design, marketing, and public policy, you eliminate science at its roots, in the natural experimentation of kids who want to know how the world works.
O’Reilly on Math and Science
15 August 2008
16 June 2008
In social software as in software projects, the human filters sometimes make poor decisions; you can’t have the flexibility and intelligence of humans without their flaws. Using Wikipedia but becoming enraged when your favourite marginal entry is deleted is like going to an art gallery but being enraged that you saw something there you didn’t like. It’s a big waste of time and energy that could better be spent working.
O’Reilly Radar on Human Filters
21 January 2008
Based on doing site:markmail.org queries: Google has indexed 760k pages, Yahoo 19k, and MSN 4k. It’s not just the search algorithm that matters, it’s also the crawl algorithm, and we have a clear winner here.
O’Reilly on Google