weighted web
Building on the Web these days often feels like a game where you see how much weight you can put in a boat before it sinks, but you get $1 for every pound you add instead of how many days it stays afloat.
Tag: Web
feudalistic software
Have you ever noticed nearly all Web software is feudalistic? I share three important pieces from academics that capture the issue.
the fight
As the power of the Web grew, we allowed that power to become concentrated in the hands of a very few. And unregulated power invariably corrupts, and corruption kills dreams.
search products
This is a brief technical review of open source search index products currently available, summarizing what I learned about them in a couple days of research.
delicious clicks
The most dangerous idea on the web is that it’s for search engines.
square one
Maybe it’s just a story I’m making up, but this Web doesn’t feel like the dream we were all working toward. What are we doing here, anyway?