Information Maven: Greg Meyer

Amazon.com has launched (in Beta) an interesting service called that pays you (in micropayment form) for completing tasks only a human would know how to do well. Scott McCloud has written in depth about the concept of micropayments, or payments so small that consumers will not think it a burden to, say, buy a […]

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Wow, this is a nifty new find. My college classmate Ethan Zuckerman, always an eloquent writer on things technological and otherwise, tipped me off to BlogPulse, a company that not only mines blog data but provides some interesting information and tools that you can use to track your own information “neighborhood.”
Try the profile section […]

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I found a very interesting if somewhat geeky piece on social bookmarking today. D-Lib (no, not a rapper but a digital library project) is an entirely online magazine supported by our friends at DARPA. Incidentally, they also published a case study of Conotea, a scientific tool for this purpose.
So why is DARPA […]

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I’m not going to see the movie tonight, even though I remember seeing the original several times in the theater and waiting in lines that stretched around the block for Empire and Jedi.
But I did watch a clever piece on Store Wars today. I’ve supported CSA agriculture before, particularly at Jubilee Farm, and found […]

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Along with several other cars of tv-land past, the Super-Pursuit version of K.I.T.T. is for sale.
I don’t have a specific purpose for this entry, but it does give me the opportunity to point out some important David Hasselhoff resources for those who need more Knight Rider information (why, I don’t know either). Note: fans […]

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