KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

Yahoo! is making headlines for helping to strangle free speech in China. Again. It boils down to trading the life of a human being in exchange for access to more than 160 million potential advertisers and pairs of eyeballs.
Spokesperson Mary Osako was quoted by the BBC in 2005 as saying,
“Just like any other global [...]

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“Because the web needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.”
Relevance in search results as in life is based on a series of choices and the ability to filter out what is annyoing, irrelevant and just plain useless.
So two programmers in the US are working on developing open source filtering software that is able to detect rampant [...]

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The executive summary to Marie Jasinski’s research for the Flexible Learning Framework on the environment necessary to embed e-learning into mainstream practice made for an excellent read this morning and a great start to my week.
The key messages for me were:
1) Early adopters or innovators are not necessarily the best leaders when it comes to [...]

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There’s a whole grab bag of things I learned/heard that resonated with me/observed/gave me food for a hungry brain at camp over the weekend. Here they are in no particular order:

Podcasting is like early television - mimicking an earlier form of communication. As a medium, it hasn’t yet found its unique range of expression.
Niche programming, [...]

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It was with great amusement that I watched a CNN interview with Andrew Keen, author of “The Cult of the Amateur”.
The author puts forth the argument that Web 2.0 activities - and he apparently feels music piracy belongs on that list - is putting professionals out of jobs and confusing young people.
Entertainment, news, encyclopedias - [...]

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