Why is the music in many bars so loud that you can't hear what the person next to you is saying? Because you go to bars to drink not talk, of course. Because everyone is shouting, the bar becomes even noisier and soon people start to give up trying to communicate and focus on their drinking, meaning more trips to the bar, and more regrets in the morning. Of ... Read full entry

"Necessity is the mother of invention" could well be the mantra for the owners of online classified advertisers Craigslist, says co-founder Craig Newmark who believes an abundance of money and resources is ultimately detrimental to innovation. "I've seen companies with too much revenue," says Newmark. "Having too much money, too many resources, means you don't have to work smart, so you work dumb. And then you lose your ... Read full entry

Some interesting thoughts on the rise of self-linking, or referencing posts to internal, rather than external, web pages. When this trend spreads (and I say "when", not "if"), this will be a tax on the utility of the web that must be counterbalanced by the utility of the intervening pages. If they are really good, with lots of useful, curated data that you wouldn't easily find elsewhere, this may ... Read full entry