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Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25

Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25other booksya it is a good bookif ya want one that is more inrestingtry WEBSPINNERSAnother suggestionLittle Brother by Cory Doctorow

Tags: Neuromancer

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

William Gibson heads for 'Spook Country'

William Gibson heads for 'Spook Country'A point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonA point blank review of Spook Country by William GibsonPosted in Uncategorized by chrisbradley on the October 4th, 2007Let's get started on the best note possible. William Gibson stated yesterday in the California Literary Review that...

Tags: Marketing research, Spook Country, Milgrim, William Gibson, Tito, Gibson

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

We're all swimming in media now

William Gibson, "Father of Cyberpunk," long known for his prescience, has put his finger on a fundamental truth about the world we live in today. His new book, Spook Country, contains a couple passages everyone concerned with media business models should read and consider (along with the rest of the...

Tags: Social Networking, Network, Media, William Gibson, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2007-09-06

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Royal Society papers provide science, history resources

The 350th anniversary of Britain's Royal Society (making it the world's oldest scientific institution) will be marked by the release of a vast library of papers online from the likes of Sir Isacc Newton and Benjamin Franklin. This isn't just science nerd stuff, though. This is a treasure...

Tags: Science, Site, Web Site Development, Search, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-29

What's on your watch list? Forrester identifies 15 key technologies for enterprise architects

Enterprise 2.0 is here todayThanks for sharing Forrester's 15 Key Technologies. Though they represent discrete capabilities, collectively they nicely sum up Enterprise 2.0.Global adoption will take awhile, not for a lack of interest, but rather due to the slow up take of the underlying architecture, database, and coding methodologies.Forward...

Tags: Development tools, Key Technologies, Forrester Research Inc., Enterprise 2.0

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Required summer reading: Neuromancer turns 25

Most of us have probably read Neuromancer, the canonical work by William Gibson, the loose basis for the Matrix movies, and, arguable, the first major book of the cyberpunk genre. Can you tell I'm a fan? I bring this up because this is the book's 25th...

Tags: Idea, Computer, WWW, Productivity, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learned

Iran protests meet the social Web: What we've learnedOne thing we have also learnedis that liberals are just as naive and ignorant as they have always been.Anyone who thought this election meant anything at all was a naive fool. Anyone who thinks this will end in any other way than...

Tags: Government, Dictatorships, social Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worlds

Worlds.com patent litigation could ripple through virtual worldsQuake 3 predates this patent by two yearsQuake 3 would seem to run counter to this patent, as would Tribes, and several other online games from the 90s. The core concepts of such online interactions were also presented in the 90s movie...

Tags: Quake 3, patent, virtual world, patent litigation

Discussion threads 2008-12-30

Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal

Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...

Tags: Symantec Corp., IP, Tool, Con, Katie Moussouris, Last HOPE, Wiki, Internet, Productivity, Security, Network Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Docstoc for law school (a.k.a. today's young whippersnappers don't know how good they have it!)

My goodness. Check out the impressive array of law school outlines and other law school and bar exam resources being amassed at Docstoc. Aside from being incredibly useful, my favorite thing about this service is its built in Creative Commons licensing. A perfect...

Tags: Law School, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-01-30

The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007

Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...

Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2007-12-27

Parting thoughts on the Kindle for students

As much as I would like to hang on to Larry Dignan's Kindle ebook reader, downloading books from all of my favorite authors using his Amazon account, it's time for it to go back (and just when William Gibson's latest, Spook Country, is now available in Kindle format!). Having...

Tags: Student, E-book, Teacher, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

Singularity Summit 2007: Machines of loving grace

Futurist/historian of science Paul Saffo gave the final presentation of the day at the Singularity Summit 2007, offering his advice to the crowd of 800 attendees. "We are in a moment of handoff. It happens in all technology transitions. The inventors, scientists and innovators hand off to popular culture."...

Tags: News, Computer, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

William Gibson: Forget about corporate futurism

Silicon.com has an interview the William Gibson, author of the cyberspace classic Neuromancer and of the just published Spook Country. In the interview, Gibson is asked why he doesn't write about the future in his latest books:The trouble is there are enough crazy factors and wild cards on the table...

Tags: Silicon.com, Possibility, Interview, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Arianna is golden

It takes a golden woman to get me out of bed at 5.00 am. And Arianna Huffington is golden, very golden. I caught the 6.30 shuttle this morning down to Burbank, to catch the golden girl live -- speaking at On Hollywood. She didnt disappoint. Dressed in a gold top,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identity

Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identityIts either left or right in this caseMS actually just plans to do the same. I agree that a book is best read in full, but wouldn't it be great to find all books with a certain quote?If you look at...

Tags: Reading, binaries, Google Inc., human identity, identity, assault

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

Why Google's universal library is an assault on human identity

In this mornings Financial Times, Thomas Rubin, Microsoft Associate General Council for Intellectual Property, suggests that authors wont benefit from Googles ambition to scan all the texts in the world and create a "vast online database of indexed content". Rubin is right, of course. But theres a second and even...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-03-06

On visiting the bookstore

On visiting the bookstoreAlways a means to an endComputing in sci fi is usually incidental - to abuse the star trek communcator some more, it was just a tool used to enable crew communications; i.e. it was never about the thing.So is computing boring to sci fi? I hope so...

Tags: Robots, computing, science fiction, robot

Discussion threads 2006-12-21

Become an Internet detective: Use standard Internet services to track an offender across the digital matrix

Given the pervasiveness of the Internet, a high percentage of every computer forensics specialist's investigations will inevitably involve either incoming or outgoing Internet traffic. Like characters in a William Gibson novel, cybersleuths often have to track offenders across the digital matrix - and do so using many of the same...

Tags: Internet Service, Computer, Addison-Wesley, Internet, Productivity

Book chapters 2006-11-15