David Weinberger's Blog, page 9
September 24, 2020
Toggling a bluetooth device from the command line
I move my laptop from my home office to other rooms of the house after I realize, as I do at least twice a day, that my office looks like a hoarder’s storage locker. Rather than cleaning it up, I decided to make it slightly easier for me to make those moves. The problem is […]
August 18, 2020
America the Diverse
The opening night of the Democratic Party’s first Post-Stentorian Age convention got to me. Of course I loved Michelle Obama’s profoundly righteous talk. But what really got to me were the faces we saw. It was on purpose and it worked. I was proud to be a Democrat and proud — for the first time […]
February 26, 2020
My 2004 Blogroll
Resuscitating an early form of social networking – a "blogroll" – from 16 years ago.
February 22, 2020
Fixing Canadian wireless connectivity
The CEO of Tucows argues that wireless connectivity should be counted as infrastructure in Canada
February 16, 2020
Dutch national health insurance – probably not what you think
A Dutch friend wrote this up for a list I’m on, and kindly gave me permission to post it. It turns out that the Netherlands is to the left of Bernie and Warren when it comes to national health insurance. Here are my friend’s comments. The Netherlands has privatised all government health funds in 2006. […]
February 15, 2020
Internet Ritual and Trust
Trust in a root infrastructure of the Net depends on a ceremony that may be modeled on a British practice 738 years old.
February 10, 2020
Brink has just posted a piece of mine that suggests that ...
Brink has just posted a piece of mine that suggests that the Internet and machine learning have been teaching companies that our assumptions about the predictability of the future — based in turn on assumptions about the law-like and knowable nature of change — don’t hold. But those are the assumptions that have led to […]
January 28, 2020
Games without strategies
Digital Extremes wants to break the trend of live-service games meticulously planning years of content ahead of time using road maps…’What happens then is you don’t have a surprise and you don’t have a world that feels alive,’ [community director Rebecca] Ford says. ‘You have a product that feels like a result of an investor’s […]
January 13, 2020
In the public domain, but encumbered
It is fantastic that 14 Paris museums have put images of 150,000 artworks into the public domain. Go take a look. It makes the world visibly better. But … …The images are easily accessible one at a time for a human who is browsing. You can also click to download it, and then do whatever […]
January 8, 2020
Y2K’s 1% solution
The most popular Y2K patch repeats the Y2K error. How could that be?
