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The Taste Blog is an aggregation of Paul Lamere's favorite blogs about recommendation.

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Column stores and row stores: should you care? Most database users row-oriented databases such as Oracle or MySQL. In such engines, the data is organized by rows. Database researcher and guru Michael Stonebraker has been advocating…
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A map to where?

The UK’s Independent has attempted to map the discussion about the future of newspapers. I’m not sure I get the benefit of the form, but give it a whirl:
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Politics makes…. When she pushed her dangerous agenda to change copyright law through Congress to protect her industry, company, and job, Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz got all huffy with me when I …
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Eric Schmidt on the new world

Here’s video from the Aspen Ideas Festival responding to my question about what follows the industrial age. It’s much better than my limited report on it below:

More of Kai Ryssdal’s very…
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Links for 2009 07 02
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Links for 2009 07 02
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Is collaboration correlated with productivity?

Apparently, it is prestigious to write research papers with people from other countries. Funding agencies routinely favor collaboration between different  universities.

Presumably collaboration…
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MJ OD When Michael Jackson died, I wondered how quickly the conversation about him would fade online and how long it would persist on TV “news.” Well, it didn’t take long to see the divergence: TV thinks…
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Linus about network of trust in software development (git)

Transcript of the last part:
“It is how we think.
We don’t know a hundred people. We have 5, 7, 10 close personal friends. Well, we are geeks, so we have 2.
But that’s…
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Links for 2009 07 01
  • Let me google that for you
    automatically create a video of how to use google for searching for “keyword”! Useful for people who ask before searching into google ;)
    (tags: google, …
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Linus about network of trust in software development (git)
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Links for 2009 07 01
  • Let me google that for you
    automatically create a video of how to use google for searching for “keyword”! Useful for people who ask before searching into google ;)
    (tags: google, …
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Links for 2009 06 29
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Google on Google At the Aspen Ideas Festival, I got up to a mic to ask Eric Schmidt a question. No, it wasn’t, “what would Google do?” I wanted his reaction to a notion I’ve talked about here that has crystallized…
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China blinks I said in What Would Google Do? – and argued the point in a talk at Google in Washington – that Google and other technology companies have more influence than they know – and should use it – in…