Monday, February 03, 2003

Risk and Reward The probability of catastrophic failure in a Space Shuttle mission was 1/100.  As of this weekend its 1/76.  The probability of death from a car per year is: 40,000 deaths / 300 million Americans = 1 / 7500.  That's heroism. 10:09:57 PM    comment [] ID at the center Jon Udell rightly centers convergence around identity and Marc Canter rightly centers on open digital identity. 4:35:50 PM    comment [] Collapse of Inconvenience Boston Globe Magazine: A Nation of Voyuers (cover story), How the Internet search engine Google is changing what we can find out about one another - and raising questions about whether we should. [Google Weblog]  "It's the collapse of inconvenience," says Siva Vaidhyanathan, assistant professor of culture and communication at New York University. "It turns out inconvenience was a really important part of our lives, and we didn't realize it." 3:48:40 PM    comment [] Blogs in Financial Publishing David Speakman of Silicon Valley Biz Ink, and former ON24 editor, has good piece on the evolution of financial publishing and its increasing reliance on blog-like and blog functionality. Quotes me and Marc.  [RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing] Highlights not only the financial vertical, but quotes Jason Shellen of Pyra on the adoption by political pundits and the legal profession.  And a Pyra investor nails its value proposition: "There is essentially no learning at all involved in using it," Luskin says. "It's about as easy as e-mail. Believe me, I don't have much [programming] knowledge, and I've set up some cool blogs. Blogging means you can create a collaborative, interactive and frequently-updated site with virtually no upfront investment in custom-software design." 3:36:53 PM    comment []

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