I recently went to a talk by Stephen Kimber at The University Club of Toronto, where he spoke about the blurred lines between truth and …
Jobs for futurists
Updated 2012-02-17 :: version 05 – oh yeah. Ever dreamed of a job that simply doesn’t exist yet? Or a career in an unheard-of field or …
memes: mimicry vs replication
[updated 2009-03-03] The core thrust of making memetics a respectable science with falsifiable claims and other tell-tale signs of ‘rigour’ has been the idea of …
Rating, reviewing and ranking systems : Part 2
This is a continuation of my previous post on review systems. Having looked at some of things that make your average review system less-than-useful, I …
Rating, reviewing and ranking systems – Part 1
Ranking and rating are activities that are almost entirely subjective by nature. They are based on a (usually unknown) value system. In the case of …