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Lawrence Lau has posted a thoughtful entry in the Freedom forum discussing the privacy rights of celebrities and other "public" personalities. In it he makes this comment...

> The fundamental issue is that public interest is defined differently for different groups

But is it? And if it is, are the issues celebrities face any more than…

wik.me uses a structure for knowledge that we believe can support a universal map of human knowledge. This means that all human concepts can be accommodated by the map and that any concept will have one, and only one, position in it.

Getting this map right, particularly for what we call Upper Concept Space, will take plenty of adjustment. The…

It's been a long time coming, but last week we officially launched wik.me. The site is running with reduced functionality and a list of bugs as long as my arm - but Hey, it's up.

wik.me initially includes two blocks of data or development “stages”...

These are the most common…

It's not that long ago that to learn about something meant getting in the car or hopping on a bus to go spend the better part of your day in a library. If you were lucky, your family might have “invested” a thousand or more dollars in an encyclopaedia. If you wanted to research a product purchase it meant collecting brochures, buying magazines and getting on the phone to ask people about it. The Internet changed all that.

But on the publishing side, things…