Imposing a Metcalfe Tax

Bob Metcalfe’s most famous pronouncement is known these days as Metcalfe’s Law, the idea that the value of a network increases with the scale of its number of...

link hijinks

It’s time to revisit this suggestion from 1996 . I’ve been saying for years that the < link > tag will be the savior of the web, and the proposal...

metadata in link titles

Idea: Once broadband is more widespread, how about some javascript (or maybe a browser add-in) that adds meta-data to the tooltip on a link? Something like the...