Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. In our previous post we tried to argue whether you could engineer serendipity. The conclusion was: no, you cannot engineer serendipity (on the web). In … Continue reading More of the Same: The Web Turns Us Into Mussels
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Top 10 Podcasts for the Technophile
About two years ago I had to change the way I got to work. I used to take the train and would spend all that time reading. Suddenly I had to drive a car and it felt like I was wasting my time. That is until I found out about podcasting. I have about ten … Continue reading Top 10 Podcasts for the Technophile
6.6 Degrees of separation on average
Stanley Milgram was a very innovative social experimenter. I will keep his experiments on authority for another blog post and instead will focus on his Small world experiment, which I have always found fascinating. In 1969 he tried to figure out whether the world was becoming a "small world" network by sending out packages to … Continue reading 6.6 Degrees of separation on average