The superbowl ad competition has begun. Since I’m a geek and not at a superbowl party this year I thought I’d join the masses likely making commentary on the Superbowl ads coming out. So far the only one to have caught my attention is the FedEx ad. I find it unusual as an ad…

It’s all about bots this week for me! My mind had already been going down this track for a month or so when low and behold Wired runs an article in the magazine about SmarterChild — a bot I’ve been playing with quite a bit. While investigating the matter I also stumbled across this article…

On January 5th of this year Bill Gates, in an interview with CNET made a statement that irked quite a few people. After the interviewer asked Mr. Gates if he thought intellectual property laws should be reformed…

Television on mobile phones is just starting to happen. It begs the question, what would Macluhan have thought? In [Understanding Media](references/mcluhan-1994) he discusses cool and hot media. But in McLuhan’s world of 1964, media were tied to machines. How then could a cell…

Chris Anderson of the Long Tail blog identified a trend in commerce that he calls the Long Tail some issues ago in Wired Magazine. To summarize his observation, most (offline) stores have a limitation of physical capacity that keeps them from selling everything under the sun…

The term meme was first coined by Richard Dawkins in his seminal book “The Selfish Gene” [amazon link] and has been explored by numerous scientists and hackers alike in an attempt to discover if memes are more than just a conceptual model for ideas.

Memes apparently aren’t hard to catch…

Memetic Compression

One of the problems with the meme construct is that many memes would seem to exist independently of other memes and…