This stats thing is both weird and addictive. It is fun to see how many people visit, when, and where they come from, even if there's nothing one actually does about it. But, as I said on day one (a whole week ago) of this adventure, What's with the guinea pigs?

Slimstat tells me that in the pas...

Alas, Business 2.0 realised what it had done and made amends.

Update, November 18: Business2.0 has graciously asked for permission to include the original linked image on their weblog, attributed – which permission, of course, I gladly granted. Sadly, they erased the numerous amusing comments ab...

I had no real desire to add to the noise about Google’s new Google Base service, being as how I had nothing to add. But I’m delighted to point to Paul Ford’s latest over on ftrain, wherein he sticks it to Business 2.0, a publication of suspect ethics. In a nutshell: they stole his work, so he play...

Oh but this is interesting and creepy and ... well, let us just wait and see.

Nicholas Carr posted about the Mechanical Turk now lurking within Amazon. the idea is simple and complex. People are better at some things than computers. So tell your computer program to enlist human help when it ne...

The flood of comment spam was getting really bad, so for a while back there I turned off commenting. But it made no difference. I didn’t really understand what was going on, although I’ve been reading a bit about splogs, which as ever are mucking things up for everyone. But I still don’t really...