Good Idea! Now find a better one.

Bruce Schneier, in an essay published at Wired News and on his blog, addresses the challenges faced by Google in detecting click fraud in AdWords and AdSense. The most sophisticated abusers use automation to create false ad impressions and revenue for themselves or increased costs to their competitors. In response, Google develops more […]

New Scientist has a brief but interesting post on a California inventor’s technique for using an ornamental piece like a vase as a speaker. What’s interesting about this is not that you can make sounds with a vase. Tap a vase with your knuckles and you’ll make a sound.
It’s also not new to […]

A good idea is a very simple thing. It is a concept, vision, or way of accomplishing something that is valuable to at least one human being.
And that human, that person, is key. If no person values an idea, it’s worthless. To qualify as a good idea, one person, even the idea’s conceiver, […]