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Nick Carr characteristically sees doom in Second Life's copybot, via Alex Krotoski:Krotoski saw, in the reaction of the new merchant class, that something more than his little laboratory had disappeared from the virtual world:And so, once again, the real world comes crashing in. Sooner or later, most online communities reach this crisis point because the ideals of the founders are replaced by regulations...

Bill explains how to turn Turkeys into meat. But then, aren't we all made out of meat?Update: OMG turkeys!Technorati Tags: meat, thanksgiving, tur...

John Markoff's Web 3.0 piece was an odd conflation of various kinds of "if only the world were a simpler place" AI dreams, actually triggering a full 106 microLenats on the bogometer. I wouldn't have commented on this, except that my copy of John Scalzi's The Android's Dream came today, and I read this passage that summed it up well:In the end, however, it was not capability that limited the potential...

I saw danah's call for help with her timeline of social software, and remembered Chris Locke talking about sixdegrees.com on his EGR mailing list. There, I saw the email from Chris that started me blogging, 5 years ago today. Looks like I posted 4 times that day, on memetic engineering, Geoffrey Nunberg distorting Samuel Johnson by selective quoting, Chris Locke on Johnson, and tracing over pictures.I...

In the Telegraph, Tony Blair writes about the 'need' for ID cardsThe case for ID cards is a case not about liberty but about the modern world [...] I know this will outrage some people but, in a world in which we daily provide information to a whole host of companies and organisations and willingly carry a variety of cards to identify us, I don't think the civil liberties argument carries much weight.I...

The Making Light blog is collecting Mike Ford's comments there as a series:De vermis.The worm drives helically through the woodAnd does not know the dust left in the boreOnce made the table integral and good;And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;The names of lovers, light of other days --Perhaps you will not miss them....

JP made an analogy between software development and film-making:Only successful scripts should get financedThat’s what angels want first and foremost. Good scripts. Because they know that they can get good producers, good directors, good actors, good everything. But good scripts are harder to come by.BTW, have you ever wondered why angel investors exist in only two investment genres, filmmaking and...

Their online banking seems attractive, but it has a fatal flaw.It doesn't show a running balance with each transaction, just a mythical 'available balance', and a long list of 'pending' transactions. The trouble is, the pending transactions become actual at different times. In particular, any debits become actual before any credits. So, if you have a large pending deposit of, say, your salary, a few...