Category: Weblogs
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Is A.I. Killing the World Wide Web?
From The Economist: As AI changes how people browse, it is altering the economic bargain at the heart of the internet. Human traffic has long been monetised using online advertising; now that traffic is drying up. Content producers are urgently trying to find new ways to make AI companies pay them for information. If they cannot, the open web…
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Who Built the Internet? Obama’s Straw Man Fallacy
This just over the transom: With respect to your post about how "you didn't build this blog" — really bad example. You built the blog, but Big Government built the internet that allows you to transmit it it to potentially billions of people. So, it's exactly an illustration of what Obama was talking about —…
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Bill Muehlenberg’s Culture Watch
I happened upon this site today, and it looks good based on the one article I read, Shariah and Democracy. You decide.
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Professor Mondo
Looking for some high-quality conservative culture critique anent the antics of the late Captain Beefheart who died last week, I typed 'New Criterion Captain Beefheart' into the Google engine. I was forthwith conducted to the stoa of Professor Mondo, presumably because he links to New Criterion and recently posted about Beefheart. Noting that he also links…
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The ‘Stickiness’ Metric
'Stickiness' is a measure of the average length of time a reader remains at a website. Personally, I am more impressed by the 'stickiness' of a site than its raw traffic (measured in unique visitors and page views). Here at TaxProf Blog is a ranking of the 'stickiest' law prof blogs. (Via Legal Insurrection.) Ladder Man…
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Legal Insurrection
A blawg by William A. Jacobson, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY. I came to it via Keith Burgess-Jackson. Jacobson has his head screwed on Right. Get thee hence, learn and enjoy.
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I’m Telling You All I Know
The Website of Novelist, Short Story Writer & Poet William Michaelian. A search for writing about Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel brought me to this site. Couldn't find a copy in Border's the other day. Moving from the Rs to the Ws, I noted the resurgence of Ayn Rand: several of her titles in new…
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Feser on Vallicella on Rand
I just discovered this post at Edward Feser's weblog. Excerpt: Bill also evaluates Rand’s argument to the effect that “to grasp the axiom that existence exists, means to grasp the fact that nature, i.e., the universe as a whole, cannot be created or annihilated, that it cannot come into or go out of existence.” He…
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Inaugural Post
Welcome to the latest version of Maverick Philosopher. Counting all MavPhil sites, this is number four. Serious posting will begin either later today or tomorrow.