Good-bye to BrightcoveAs of yesterday, Cambridge “start-up” video delivery company Brightcove shut off the free service it started a few years back, in order to pursue high-paying corporate clients. As you can see from the comments section of their blog-post, a lot of their more entrepreneurial users are not happy. I’m surprised frankly Brightcove did… Continue reading

A rather nice thought of the day, from Just Thomism: The simplest answer to ‘why something as opposed to nothing’ is ‘because of something that is not ‘’something as opposed to nothing”’. Something whose existence is not simply one side of a contradiction.

Lab Rat, coming to the conclusion that scientists don’t always have the answers.

John Wilkins on the problems with theistic evolution. I have argued before that the only sense of theistic evolutionist that makes any sense without doing irreparable harm to science is something like Leibniz’ notion that God has created or actualised the world that best serves whatever utility functions God has (i.e., whatever is in his… Continue reading

Whatever Happened to QuickTime III like to keep an eye on some of the media developer lists out there, and today I came across a fascinating discussion that could basically serve as the sequel to the article I wrote, this time last year, for Streaming Media, detailing the woes of developers who have watched Apple… Continue reading