Gavin’s Digital Diner

Call me irascible. When RSS started showing up on this or that, I wasn’t all that thrilled. I was skeptical. Moreover, it reminded of PointCast,” circa 1995. With some shame [looking at my feet and blushing], I admit that I liked PointCast.
I say that with one caveat: PointCast, you see, was designed, inherently, for the [...]

I’ve always been vaguely uncomfortable with folksonomies. There is something about the concept that just doesn’t sit right with me. Every time I hear people wax on about them, I fidget in my seat; I feel kind of itchy and unsettled at the same time. Perhaps it’s my latent, [...]

So, with all this talk about logic puzzles, the voice of the people, and the value of various types of communications, I decided to do a little homework. After all, I publicly committed heresy. And, while several people (privately) agreed with me, and others suggested that we get to make our voice heard every election [...]