Stefan Savage, speaking in a segment on March 13’s On The Media, asked:
The question I like to ask people is, what are you going to do to the highway system to reduce crime. And when you put it that way, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, because while criminals do use the highway, no rational person is [...]

Posted March 31, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: crime, highways, internet, metaphor, security, social problems, technical problems, trust. Be the first one.

All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about. The service promises to help organize conferences in some new 2.0 way, but it looks to be about as preposterous a social network as WalMart’s aborted 2006 attempt at copying MySpace.
There are some [...]

Posted April 3, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: antipattern, antipatterns, community, faux pas, license, social networks, social software, SWIFT, trust. Be the first one.

Cameron Moll (via Ryan Eby) wants “weight” customer ratings to reflect how two products of the same rating might have wildly different numbers of reviews.
At first glance I agree with him, but after a moment of thought, I begin to wonder if I want the ratings weighted by the number of reviews, or the number [...]

Posted January 29, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon reviews, product reviews, rating, ratings, recommendations, review, reviews, trust, user contributed reviews, weighting. One Comment.