:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.19.2003 ::
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GOOGLE UPDATE
From Slashdot: Should you fear Google?
"Google-watch.com is presenting a list of nine complaints about (almost) everybody's favorite search engine. Some of the salient fears are 'Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.' and 'Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency.' The concerns seem like paranoid hand waving to me, but maybe I'm not paranoid enough."
WORD BURSTS
From Slashdot: Web Log 'Word Bursts' Could Identify New Crazes
"New Scientist reports that a researcher from Cornell University has come up with a clever method of identifying what's cool by automatically searching weblogs. Sudden increases or 'bursts' in the usage of particular words may reflect a new craze, according to Jon Kleinberg. He has demonstrated the technique by searching through state of the union addresses given since 1790."
"Wonder how long before this can be done real time enough to really make this useful?"
You might want to join the discussion of these and other issues.
posted by me
:: 3:06:00 PM [+] ::
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