All I Know Is That I Don’t Know Nothing

Knowledge for my generation was at the center of the human quest. It is going the way of the recording industry. It is a term that won’t survive the generation.

David Weinberger, researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, from a lecture last Wednesday at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information

Gravity Wants to Instantly Personalize Any Content Site

Gravity today is unveiling its plans to be an information filtering service. The idea is to combine social and semantic understanding of users to identify content they are likely to be interested in.

Berkeley Prof Helped Divvy Up Search to Many Servers

A connection to the University of California at Berkeley–and a lengthy record for innovations–seem to be winning attributes in this year’s big computing prizes. Eric Brewer has both.

Take Me Away From All These … Layoffs

Spammers: Sure, Our Sales Conversion Rates Are Low, but Lead Generation Is Through the Roof

Not that there’s any reason to think otherwise, but the spam network business is not one that’s dependent on sales conversion rates. You’ve got to send a hell of a lot of spam to make a living at it.