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  • The Great Bungee Jump

    Well, the great Bungee Jump has come. Martin Plaehn, CEO of Bungee Labs has shared the news of the company the letting go of 15 regular employees and contractors . Unfortunately, I am among this set of affected Bungee Labs employees. A Voyage of Discovery As Martin explained in today's post , Bungee...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-27-2008

  • I Am a Strange Loop

    About 10 years ago a friend gave to me a book as gift . We were sitting on the deck of a canal boat on a Friday late afternoon set for a weekend of lazy meandering with friends and family along the Thames, when he handed me his own copy of Godel, Escher, Bach . "You'll love this" he said. Willem was...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 08-14-2008

  • Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

    I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008

  • The Efficiency of (the) American English Language

    As I've come to learn while living in the US, the American English language is more efficient than its British English cousin. The difference between the two languages is more than just fonetic phonetic simplification - the general rule seems to be about using fewer letters and words as a whole. Here...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 04-29-2008

  • Thinking with a hyperlinked-content processor

    Alex Pang's post Thinking with a word processor led me to ask myself... This question: How does my trawling / tagging / blogging / processing of hyperlinked content affect my thinking? Answer: Immeasurably, I suspect.
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-23-2007

  • The Lightnet Revisited

    At the end of 2005 I wrote a post messing around with some ideas on the future of the net. One of the ideas was the counter concept to the Darknet, using the term 'Lightnet'. I didn't define 'Lightnet', Lucas Gonze did that (and soon after Lucas was good enough to acknowledge me with...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-13-2007

  • The Abundance of Memes

    The Long Tail meme took quite a while for it to propagate through memespace. I don't know how long it took for the first spark of the idea to emerge in Chris Anderson's mind, to it being a popular modern economic idea, but it's safe to say it took close to years . Like others , I suspect...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-26-2006
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