Up until now, I have regularly participated in a radio program in Germany (in German language) where participants are invited to ask questions about an author’s new book. The show is quite popular, and I find the programmers are being increasingly selective regarding the questions — not only is the censorship quite obviously becoming more… Continue reading “Leider” — Information Asymmetry in Leading Media
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Nightmare on Time
Over the past several weeks, I have been churning out nightmarish post after nightmarish post, and this week I was beginning to wonder about what’s going on — as in: I seem to be having a lot of nightmares on my mind. I have time and again made comparisons between our own period of information… Continue reading Nightmare on Time
Fascism & Regulated Media
Of course the word “fascism” is a loaded term. Let alone that the term was invented by some short pudgy Italian only about a century ago. What does it mean? He might have known, but in the meantime (now, a century later) the term has been applied so often in so many contexts that it… Continue reading Fascism & Regulated Media
Order + Dis-Order
My thinking about the complexity of the world was significantly influenced by a book recommendation I followed up on about a decade ago. It was summer, so one of my friends asked about influential books … and a friend of hers mentioned “The Social Construction of Reality” (by Berger & Luckmann). I decided to read… Continue reading Order + Dis-Order
Free Speech & Market Speech
I have been mulling over one of my long-held beliefs a lot lately … and the big puzzle for me is: why do so few people get it? I think the answer is a combination of several things — and that is a big part of why it seems to be complex, not simple, not… Continue reading Free Speech & Market Speech
Human Brain Conditioner
Last week’s post seems to have occupied my own brain pretty much all of this week, and yesterday I experienced what I consider to be quite a momentous breakthrough. As usually happens with significant breakthroughs like this, it will probably take several days or weeks for all of the dust to settle. Here and now… Continue reading Human Brain Conditioner
Information Retrieval & Algorithmic Search vs Visual Design & Brute Force
Yesterday I posted some feedback about recent changes in WordPress Reader (see “WordPress.COM Reader Design Feedback (about Featured Image & information usability)” [ search.tech.blog/2022/10/15/wordpress-com-reader-design-feedback-about-featured-image-information-usability ] ). My own feedback comes from my own reading habits, which are very text-based and also oriented towards natural language search (including algorithmic information retrieval) technology. I realize that most people… Continue reading Information Retrieval & Algorithmic Search vs Visual Design & Brute Force
A Deep Dive Behind the Editorial Wall
At the moment my brain is brimming with a bunch of interconnected ideas … and this one needs to be addressed first of all. Many years ago, when I first published my controversial ideas (way before I revised the nomenclature in “Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word” [ https://remediary.com/2020/11/06/hope-change-flipping-the-f-word-removing-the-old-fashioned-r-word ],… Continue reading A Deep Dive Behind the Editorial Wall
