March 2008
Links for 2008 03 31 →
Wikis Home - wikis.sun.com
An example of openess and transparency from a corporation. Sun Wiki. This is where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with…
Links for 2008 03 31 →
Wikis Home - wikis.sun.com
An example of openess and transparency from a corporation. Sun Wiki. This is where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with…
Links for 2008 03 31 →
Wikis Home - wikis.sun.com
An example of openess and transparency from a corporation. Sun Wiki. This is where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with…
London’s all a-twitter →
At last week’s Citizen Journalism Meetup panel at NYU, when somebody brought up President Obama — cough — getting a 3 a.m. phone call, I joked that since he’s cool, instead he’d be getting 3 a.m….
Links for 2008 03 29 →
Main Page - x.mepemepe.com
UNICEF uses wiki, opensource, SMS to connect kids - UNIWiki is way of thinking, that looks for as many ways to connect people as possible.
(tags: unicef, …
Do I smell smoke? Is that a fiddle I hear? →
The New York Times Monday media report completely buried the report of the worst newspaper ad revenue decline since 1950, when the NAA started measuring the number (which is to say, the worst…
Comrade customer →
Peter Himler, a PR exec who blogs at the refreshingly bluntly named The Flack, just told the story of his trip to Moscow and talks with big executives there about the empowered customer online….
The last portal →
With some fanfare, Yahoo today unveiled its new women’s site, Shine, with content contributions from lots of big companies including Conde Nast, Hearst, Rodale, and Time Inc. (though I find…
How to solve hard problems →
Some people start out in life able to solve hard problems. Others cannot seem to do it. I believe that intelligence is not innate, but few people know how to work on hard problems. Some may learn…
Publish2’s funding →
Scott Karp, cofounder and CEO of Publish2, just announced that the company has closed its first round of funding with Velocity. I’m proud to say that I’ve weaseled my way onto the board. From the…
Massively distributed Ajax profiling →
Emre Kiciman and Ben Livshits have a SOSP 2007 paper, “AjaxScope: A Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-Side Behavior of Web 2.0 Applications” (PDF), with the clever idea of using web…
The death and life of newspapers →
Eric Alterman writes an article, “Out of Print”, in the March 31 New Yorker about “the death and life of the American newspaper.” An excerpt:
Until recently, newspapers were accustomed to…
Tax time →
Taking the weekend off to torture myself.
Links for 2008 03 29 →
Main Page - x.mepemepe.com
UNICEF uses wiki, opensource, SMS to connect kids - UNIWiki is way of thinking, that looks for as many ways to connect people as possible.
(tags: unicef, …
Links for 2008 03 29 →
Main Page - x.mepemepe.com
UNICEF uses wiki, opensource, SMS to connect kids - UNIWiki is way of thinking, that looks for as many ways to connect people as possible.
(tags: unicef, …
Links for 2008 03 29 →
Main Page - x.mepemepe.com
UNICEF uses wiki, opensource, SMS to connect kids - UNIWiki is way of thinking, that looks for as many ways to connect people as possible.
(tags: unicef, …
Elected by Google →
Webguild has amazing numbers on Barack Obama’s online spending. They report that in February, he spent $1 million on Google vs. Hillary Clinton’s $67,000, according to Federal Election Commission…
Newspapers are f’ed →
Newspaper ad revenues have taken their worst drop in almost 60 years - worse even than 2001. E&P reports:
According to new data released by the Newspaper Association of America, total print…
The Echo Nest goes live →
After years of development, the Echo Nest is online and doing business. Yesterday, they announced that www.thisismyjam.com is using the Echo Nest to create beat-matched mixes for sharing…
Panel points →
One more post about tonight’s panel (6p at New York University: Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St.,. Room 109): With such a lineup of luminaries (Arianna Huffington, Micah Sifry, Lisa Tozzi, Jay…
Hadoop Summit notes →
James Hamilton posts detailed notes ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5]) on the talks at the Hadoop Summit. Hadoop is the open source version of Google GFS and MapReduce. Yahoo is pushing a lot…
Talk on disk as the new RAM →
Northeastern Professor Gene Cooperman recently gave a curious Google engEdu tech talk, “Disk-Based Parallel Computation, Rubik’s Cube, and Checkpointing”. Gene’s starting point is that “disk is…
Bias is not a number and measurement is not the... →
Following up on NY Times public editor’s claim that he could measure bias in the paper — and found none — now Chicago Tribune ombudsman Tim McNulty measures his paper and finds little.
I asked…
‘The art of hypocrisy’ →
I was just thinking that we hadn’t really seen any slick, citizen-made attack ads on YouTube since the Hillary 1984 spot. But this morning, I find two, just put up, going after Barack Obama. They…
Not what they seem →
In today’s NY Times, Paul Krugman says that progressives (nee liberals) voting for Barack Obama are not getting the most progressive candidate:
All in all, the candidates’ positions on the…
Chuckles the Clown →
Even the BBC has bloopers. The Guardian reports that a stiff-upper-lipper lost it after hearing the earliest recording of a human voice. Problem is, she lost it reading an obit. Here’s the …
New features in the next BlogEngine.NET →
News on the upcoming BlogEngine.NET 1.4 including microformats and support for the semantic web and APML Saved By: Chris Saad | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: apml, …
Why I love the Guardian →
Here’s one more reason why I love the Guardian. I picked up the print faxed edition today and found this as the lead story, a reaction to the visit of Nicolas Sarkozy to the UK and his address to…
If you were there →
I was remiss in my moderator duties. I want to ask you what I should bring up when I moderate a panel Friday evening. Please do help me do my job. The details again: I’m moderating a panel on how…
Hothouse blogs →
Whenever anyone doubts the potential of the web to grow new journalistic enterprises, I point to PaidContent.org. Rafat Ali and his colleagues have built an incredible venture that hosts more…
I never liked Slate →
And now I like them less. They have a flack send me email bragging that they’ve started a Hillary death watch. Fuck Slate.
Wearing you Obama button, Jake?
Blogging is and will remain a fringe effect in... →
My friend Sébastien Paquet got me upset. He sent me a link to a post by David Crotty. What David says is that Wikipedia and blogging, the whole Web 2.0 fad, is not and will not have an impact in…
Links for 2008 03 26 →
JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting…
Links for 2008 03 26 →
JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting…
Feed me →
I’ve been thinking what Gary Vaynerchuk says: Facebook is too slow. Twitter has spoiled me. I want a constant feed of stuff and Facebook is a trickle. It wouldn’t be at all hard to fix. Facebook…
The news will find us →
Brian Stelter has an excellent piece in today’s New York Times about young people and their different relationship with media in this campaign. As Pew has pointed out, young people especially (and…
Say Amen →
Gene Lyons writes a thumping good column on Obama in the Arkansas Democrat. On the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan:
Democrats were outraged that, due to the Supreme Court’s ruling in…
Links for 2008 03 26 →
JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting…
Obama has not won →
I’ve had it with media trying to kick Hillary Clinton out of this race. It is not over. And Barack Obama has not won, not by a long shot.
Obama, just like Clinton, will depend on the super…
How hard can music metadata be? →
Anyone who has worked with a large music collection knows that there are all sorts of difficulties in dealing with the metadata that is associated with the music. The data is often wrong,…
Links for 2008 03 26 →
JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting…
Using IMDb data for Netflix Prize →
In a post titled “More data usually beats better algorithms”, Anand Rajaraman talks about the success a team from his data mining class at Stanford found in the Netflix recommendation contest by…
Using dwell times for search relevance →
UNC Professor Diane Kelly gave a Google engEdu talk recently titled “Relevance Feedback: Getting the Most out of Your User”. I found the discussion of implicit relevance feedback in search —…
One picture… →
By Matt Davies, via Make Them Accountable.
Too long for Twitter →
I just typed this while writing the book:
Before the public can learn to trust the powerful, the powerful must learn to trust the public.
Imitation is the sincerely form of publicity →
Tracey Ullman does a dead-on imitation of Arianna Huffington on her new show. Can’t embed it — fools — but go to this page and click the right-arrow on the videos until you see her.
Free the bills and more →
The UK’s amazing They Work for You — citizen watchdog of government — has started a campaign calling on Parliament to put all bills in XML. I want that and not just for federal legislation but for…
Your invited! Data Sharing Workshop April 18th and... →
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A panel on the internet and politics →
I’m moderating a panel on how the internet is changing politics this Friday at 6p at New York University: Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer St.,. Room 109. The stars of the show: Arianna Huffington,…
Google has broken my roman numeral captcha →
Maverick Woo has sent me an email to let me know that Google does roman numeral arithmetic.
I can’t help but imagine the discussion between between the Google engineer and his boss:
(Engineer)…