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I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I wonder what would happen to the blogosphere if we all thought like Sir Conan Doyle

Let’s hope that the video of me playing with a lite saber doesn’t pop up when someone clicks on the location of the Sharper Image store in San Diego. That, of course, is not why the news that Google is going to integrating geo-tagged YouTube videos with Google Earth is burning up the internets

At Gnomedex, Gregg Spiridellis, the “Jib” in JibJab talked about how JibJab has evolved from a low volume, high risk content creation company, to a platform that enables the long tail of content creation and distribution. They recently launched Starring You, which allows users to create their own content on top of storylines/shorts created [...]

Today I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Scoble (and many others) on his Kyte channel. Previously I had wondered where Kyte would fit into the grand scheme of things, but after the last couple of days, I agree with Scoble; Kyte is very disruptive. The fact that you can embed your [...]

Silicon.com has this article that quotes Equifax warning about how social networking sites like Facebook, Bebo, etc. can cause identity theft
Neil Munroe, external affairs director for Equifax, said in a statement: “The problem is that people don’t realise the significance of the kind of information they are putting out on the web and who may [...]

The success of Facebook is well known to most people. But Facebook is not the only social networking service that has been seeing bright times in recent days. Ning, a social networking company started by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini announced Series C funding of $44 million.

A popular debate around the blogsphere has always been if blogs should have comments or not. Today, Marc Andreessen adds to that debate by removing comments from his blog. Personally I have always believed that without comments, in general, a blog loses out since so much discussion happens in the comment section. [...]

Fascinating story in Wired about a hand-written paper facing a digital future. Many people I know from South Asia appreciate the beauty of Urdu calligraphy, even if most of us cannot understand it. The story highlights one of the challenges facing us as we move into an increasingly digital world. The story showed [...]