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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.Another venerable traditional periodical migrated to the Web last year with something less than a bang. The Atlantic magazine constructed a Website, though a rather pitiful one last year. Now the site boasts video and big [...]

We are on the threshold of an age where all information is digitalized and readily available on the Web. This is not news but it is exciting to those that consume knowledge. From education to research and beyond the full depth of available knowledge, even what we currently have available, is really unfathomable. With the [...]

Do you ever get tired of downright stupidity? I know you do and I sympathize whole heartedly. In the technology field of writing we often wrestle with complex and difficult to explain innovations and services. Some of us spend untold hours just trying to understand, let alone explain some of these creations, and even [...]

Today my friends at hakia.com announced an additional §5 million investment, this brings the total investment in the meaning based search engine to $21 million so far. Hakia has perhaps the best chance of breaking the semantic search barrier this year and these additional funds are earmarked for developing a semantic advertising platform. Additionally, hakia [...]

I don’t watch much TV these days, but I was passing the tube when I noticed Al Gore giving his acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize for “An Inconvenient Truth”, so I took some moments to give a listen. I expect most of us have seen the film, and of course experienced the discourse [...]