Here is a dilemma: lots of information is online, but it is
hard to find. Here’s another: search engine technology based
on keywords has trouble finding the information you need because of
the inherent ambiguity of human languages. Here’s a third: systems
that help us find what we need based on our personal preferences
expose more [...]
Have you heard of Scroogle? This is a search interface — created by the non-profit org google-watch. Put in your search term into the “google scraper” (there’s also one available for yahoo!), scroogle searches google, and returns google results WITHOUT ads, WITHOUT cookies and WITHOUT search term records (their access log is deleted within 48 [...]
What was once private is now under Google’s domain
San Jose Mercury News Editorial, Feb. 06, 2006.
This time, the government wasn’t looking for information that could be traced to specific people. But next time, it could, and the effects on personal privacy could be devastating.
Search engine companies and other Internet firms are amassing unprecedented amounts of [...]
Memography and the Memetic Web,
By Bob Doyle. EContentmag.com
(January/February 2006 Issue).
The new “Memetic Web” lets you add your own machine-readable meaning to a page, with a link to the meme aboutness page, so inference engines could also discover something about your meaning.
Keeping Secrets – A simple prescription for keeping Google’s records out of government hands, By Tim Wu, Slate, Jan. 23, 2006.
With all the recent press about the subpoena
of records from search engines (e.g.,
Google subpoena roils the Web, By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe, January 21, 2006), this article puts the underlying issues in perspective.
Imagine we [...]
Headlines | Benton Foundation
This month’s Blog-of-the-month (BOTM) highlights the Benton Foundation’s Communications-Related Headlines.
Their mission is to, “articulate a public interest vision for the digital age and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Current priorities include: promoting a vision and policy alternatives for the digital age in which the benefit [...]
Tech firms blasted over China policies on Capitol Hill
Tech companies are starting to (rightfully!) catch a lot of flack over their complicity to restrict speech and other human rights in China. But now the rabble is aroused! See boingboing for the whole story. The coolest action vs google is by the organization Students for a [...]
Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection: An Open Letter to Myra Borshoff Cook, Tour Organizer for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Manuscript Scroll
Jack Kerouac’s famous “On the Road” manuscript is currently on display at the San Francisco Public Library through March 19, 2006. The manuscript is a 120-foot long scroll of single-spaced, typed 12-foot long rolls of [...]
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