Archive for November, 2005

Trillion dollar matrix crunch

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

When I saw Ethan put Nivi’s matrix into NumSum, I thought it was so cool that I had to take up Mike’s request to stick some of his thought-provoking wishlist into the matrix as well. Here’s my attempt:

I got rid of the “expert” scope column, not because it’s not relevant, but because there weren’t any […]

Is attention the opposite of anonymity?

Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Ed Batista quotes Esther Dyson (reg req’d) saying that:

The popular perception is that people want anonymity; in fact, it appears that most people crave recognition. Many young people want it so much that they join multiple networking sites, rate themselves and friends on various scales, and fill in online questionnaires and surveys. Even as individuals […]