Month: March 2005

JC Herz gave an eTech presentation on the current status of adoption of emerging hi-tech by the military. After a brief description of the needs of the military she presented a short video … Read more

Larry Lessig starts the day at eTech by relating the H.G. Wells story, “The Country of the Blind”. The cure: remove the eyes … A comment on current affairs? He says: Stop! With … Read more

I was going to attend Zawodny’s Yahoo talk, but as it’s mainly an API overview I figured I’d get more out of this etech session. The Creative Commons license is a fairly new … Read more

Continuing a theme, Clay Shirky’s eTech presentation focused on categorization, tagging and labeling. Deep or wide or ? I know I face these issues in dealing with my image and music library. We … Read more

An interesting eTech session was a panel discussion on the topic of user defined categorization, known as folksonomy. Contrary to common wisdom, which indicates that only “trained professionals” can correctly choose keywords, folksonomies … Read more

Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia, gave an interesting talk at eTech this morning. Freely licensed encyclopedia, created and managed by thousands of volunteers. It was created in 2001. There are close to 500,000 … Read more

Justin F. Chapweske, CEO of Onion Networks gave a presentation at eTech to motivate the need for a better way to transfer very large files across the internet. More than bittorrent or other … Read more

Spam sucks. Of course, we know this. The point is that spam could be stopped, but the result would no longer be email as we know it today. Corey Doctorow gave a brief … Read more

Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s eTech session. His wide-ranging talk mainly focused on “making things” and the challenges and rewards that come from actually building … Read more

Sam Ruby talks about why we can’t “just use http”. Ouch. My head hurts. This is important stuff, and I do mostly understand it, but I’m not gonna do it justice by trying … Read more