Joho the Blog

Elaine Peterson, associate professor at Montana State University, has an article in D-Lib Magazine called “Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy.” It’s good to see the i...

I mentioned to my nephew Joel Weinberger, a CS grad student at UC Berkeley, that I wished the Javascript “split” method took multiple delimiters, and within minutes, he wrote one for me. If you kno...

James Boyle’s new book, The Public Domain, is an entertaining, insightful, seminal work. It’s available now for sale, reading on line for free, or downloading for free. You thus have zero excuses n...

Amazon’s own review of the director’s cut of Oliver Stone’s Alexander (the worst major movie ever?) includes the following note:
In Stone’s final cut, epic battles remain chaotic (although Alexande...

Last night, my family and my brother’s family went to the outlet stores in Clinton CT at midnight when they opened. Or, let me be precise: At midnight we were waiting in the line of traffic sprawli...

Bob Walsh at Avangate posts about two companies using Twitter to talk with customers. Zappos is a particularly fun example. (Via Graeme Thickins.)
[Tags: twitter marketing market_conversations clue...

Vincent Sterken has posted his master’s thesis, which examines LibraryThing.com to understand the dynamics and utility of social tagging. It begins with an exceptionally clear backgrounder on taggi...

I sometimes put up a Powerpoint (well, Keynote) slide that says “Control doesn’t scale.”The assumption that large projects only succeed if they’re centrally controls led and managed turns out to ha...

At search.twitter.com, the query “near:mumbai within:15mi” will bring you a remarkable stream. (Via Rick Levine.)
We are thinking of you, Mumbai.
[Tags: twitter mumbai ]

Thanksgiving is far and away my favorite national holiday. Family, food, gratitude…what’s not to like?
Just as the meal is slightly more complicated for those of us who don’t eat meat, the holiday ...