confused of calcutta

Finally managed to give the blog its much-needed makeover. As with anything else in this blog, it’s “provisional”, a work-in-progress. I hope to get everything done by the end of February, as Confused celebrates being a year old.
The glossary that some of you requested is nearly ready and will be available from next week.
LibraryThing will [...]

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We have a Foundation.
The Foundation covers tin and wire and connectedness and storage; it deals with the bits and bytes; it is independent of vendor or device, agnostic on platforms and driven by community standards. Any device any connect mechanism any form of information anywhere anytime. All recorded and archived and searchable and retrievable.
On top [...]

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I was reading Halley Suitt in her Top 10 Sources persona, and came across this by John Palfrey. It made me think.
So I want to be able to say: I place no restriction on the use of my source for any purpose.
So there. I’ve said it.

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I promise not to use the phrases Web 2.0 or “long tail” intentionally in this blog. How about that?
I’ve been fascinated by information all my life, and serendipitously been allowed to work in the information sector for most of it. The Moore-Metcalfe-Gilder Laws continue to have their effect, and with telephony becoming software, I feel [...]

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Economic models that succeed tend to take advantage of the abundances as well as the shortages that characterise a particular economic era. Traditionally, the primary factors of production used to be land, labour and capital; much of this was in “institutional” rather than individual hands, and as a result, attempts to create efficiencies in the [...]

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