http://www.edgepolitics.com the thin end of the [w]edge Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:08:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...or is 'Trust' the last line of defense?                (part #1) In 1971  Herbert Simon wrote: This precient observation from the Nobel Prize winning economist sits like a corner-stone underpinning a wealth of brilliant work that has attempted to characterise both the phenomenal collapse of the cost of duplication in the digital economy, ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=271 In a recent post on Doc Searl's Project VRM site, responding to a post on ReadWriteWeb, Doc says he's  "flattered to be called an academic", (he probably deserves that tag now, so perhaps he shouldn't be) but plainly takes umbrage at Bernard Lumm's observation in an interview with Richard de ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=195 On March 22nd I got what seemed to be a typical Twitter ‘Follow Notification’ by email, then later that same day I got this private message from Bill… and I thought: “What’s this?” It sounds like a scam… and unfortunately, (I'm sorry Bill)  but you chose the wrong person to send ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=177 First up, let me quote Robbie Wiliams, who sometime back was the recipient of an £80 million record deal by EMI : OK, the relevance of that quote may become apparent later... The best thing I've seen this week, came from techcrunch. An article about a guy called  Kutiman, (MySpace page) who ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=133 ...or syllogisms vs neologisms The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. - Tim Berners-Lee This statement projects the typical view of the ‘semantic web’ that somehow the chaotic and loosely defined nature of ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=1 or how 'closed' may become the new 'open'... (written: Aug. 20th 2008) I have a friend, who up until recently, was quite a good friend, but then something strange happened. His dark, mischievous sense of humor, which had always been one of the qualities that made him unique and often terribly ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=16 Danah Boyd had a great discussion going on her Zephoria Blog in late 2007, called: "Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?" There's some really worthwhile information there, starting with some quotes from Dave Morgan (AOL Global Advertising Strategy) "...99% of web-users don't click on ads... and only ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=20 Although Web leviathans like YouTube, MySpace and Facebook all clearly leverage aspects of the many-to-many/ peer-to-peer trend, they also usurp and plunder the power freely given by their users via constraining them inside the legacy client-server system of the web. The difficulty is, that in the web-context, the P2P meme’s ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=24 The term P2P already carries significant baggage in many people’s minds, as it is often associated with the illegal sharing of MP3 music files, software and movies on the Internet. However, the term in its usual Internet context in fact only means ‘peer-to-peer’ and the definition of a ‘peer’ is ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=36 I have come to the conclusion that, far from liberating consumer's and businesses, the whole 'Software as a Service' movement, is inherently disempowering to users. Firstly, some definitions. In referring to 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) I include Application Service Providers (ASP's) because, although the ASP model is seen as inferior ... http://www.edgepolitics.com/?p=41