Nailchipper: archive

Last week, the London Times reported that the Wikipedia founder, Jimbo Wales, was announcing a new search engine called “Wikiasari.” This search engine would incorporate a new type of social ranking system and would rival Google and Yahoo in potential ad revenue. When the news first got out, the blogosphere went into [...]

There are some interesting changes happening this blog now… I’ve had a few big changes lined up for the mid-term future, but this change will come into effect immediately.
I’ve been an adjunct member of the Institute for the Future of the Book for the past few months now and to be perfectly honest, it has [...]

Carl Sagan has been very important in the development of my views. Even before I knew who he was.
Here is a sample why:
When I was 14 I saw the movie “Contact” and for the first time in my life realized that it was okay to admit I was an atheist.
So it is nice to read [...]

At Future of the Book we recently hacked Wordpress to allow comments to tie to specific paragraphs in the text and I think it turned out pretty well. Other people seem to think so [1][2][3]. In just a few sleepless nights we had fully functional comment system that worked well enough to launch [...]

This is nice…. windy eh?
6. Future of the Book
Ostensibly about exploring the shift from the printed page to the networked screen, Future of the Book stumbles across a variety of new ideas along the way, such as creating a wikibook on gaming. Although occasionally windy, Future of the Books is on the precipice of something [...]