Martin Heidegger's 1954 piece, The Question Concerning Technology transformed the way I look at technology (it's really dense). I read it in 1995, a decade before I got implicated in the web, and 40 years after it was published. When I first started writing on the web in 2004,...

All sorts of institutions are in big trouble because of the internet, and they're scared as hell. Newspapers can't figure out how they'll keep making money; the music business is terrified that its business model is evaporating. Britannica has faded to irrelevance for anyone with an internet connection. I think...

Google is playing around with a new Wikipedia competitor, knol:

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know...

This is a week or so old, but in the LA Times, journalism prof Michael Skube writes a meaningless and silly article that argues, more or less, that bloggers are all opinion, no fact, and that's a waste of everyone's time. Title? "Blogs: All...

All this data we are putting into the web - say, into our blogs and into facebook and elsewhere, could be used for much more than just figuring out what kind of sneaker ads we're likely to want to see.

If you have a big enough and powerful...