The List
Why 9/11 is still with us
If you add up the major crises now facing the world — rocketing food prices, chronic wars in the Middle East, the credit crunch, high oil and commodity prices, and the slow motion global recession — they can all be traced directly back to September 11, 2001, when a few passenger jets were flown [...]
Algorithms and the Dave Winer Principle
Matt Craven has written an interesting piece about Dave Winer over at The Blog Herald. Along with a personal assessment, he brings up a recent Scripting News post which speculates, “What does an algorithm think?” — something I’ve often thought about, especially when falling foul of Google’s. Dave’s post doesn’t actually answer the question, but [...]
Syntagma is now on Wordpress 2.5
We have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 from 2.1 and I was expecting lots of problems and incompatibilities. Not so. A sweet conversion and one-click upgrade of plugins made life a lot easier. Although the backend is very different and will take some getting used to, the impression is one of great improvement, even from [...]