It was Twitter that finally did it. I simply could not sign up for another social network without taking a long hard look at the ones I was already on. It’s time to say goodbye.
Posts tagged 'noise'
Bedlam as a business model
20060925Mon
We get the word “bedlam” from the world’s oldest psychiatric hospital, St. Mary Bethelem in London. Founded in 1247, treatment long consisted of shackling the mentally ill to the walls and letting them scream. Seven hundred fifty years later, a lot of businesses are finding success by making a place for noise and chaos.
Celebrating OneWebDay
20060922Fri
Today is that grandest of holidays, OneWebDay. Billed as “Earth Day for the Web”, people everywhere thankful for what the world wide web has given us are engaging in little projects to improve and honor it. Here’s what I did…
Is noise necessary?
20060706Thu
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of signal, but I think noise has gotten a raw deal. Modern science has a great formula for determining a signal-to-noise ratio with the intention of getting this number as high as possible. Yet, I believe that the optimal ratio may be lower than 1:0.