The news feeds, and the subterranean regions of the blogosphere are abuzz with the “news” that a man has been beheaded on a Greyhound bus, in Canada, with a hunting knife, in front of 37 other people, by somebody who apparently did not know him, at all. Here’s one of the links : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054295/posts I [...]
Entries from July 2008
Comic strip violence
July 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Category: Society
The Magic of Information
July 30th, 2008 · No Comments
I have lately done a lot of reading on various knowledge management related topics. The most fascinating aspect of what I have come across, is to do with the way that information is being treated in certain modern specializations of physics, information science and economics. In keeping with the recognition that our world is anything [...]
Category: 404
The Data Deluge
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
A recent article by Wired’s Chris Anderson, entitled the “End of Theory”, has sparked more than one refutation in the blogosphere. Even though the article is almost certainly somewhat breathless in its announcement of the end of the scientific method, it served to bring a very important fact to the attention of a wide audience. [...]
Category: Technology

