Thursday, September 26, 2002

All the News Google Algorithms Say Is Fit to Print As you may have noticed I have added Google News feeds to my aggregator. I especially like the around the web feature of multiple sources. What I'd really like to see next is persistant keyword filtering of articles in categories so I can focus my search results. Google, the rapidly growing online search engine, introduced a service yesterday that uses its search algorithms [~] but no human editors [~] to create a news page that looks not much different from those of many news Web sites. "We are trying to leverage the experience of all the editors out there," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president for products. The site brings together headlines, and makes its automated news judgments, from information appearing on 4,000 sites.   7:13:23 PM  Google It!  comment

What Happened My categories are screwed up. When I first started working with Radio I renamed the supplied categories because the names didn't fit with what I had in mind for categories. There were no warnings that I saw so I renamed the categories. In hindsight that was a mistake. The name change is not picked up by the system so my categories contain inappropriate posts. I'm open to suggestions on what to do to fix this problem.   2:45:38 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: Legal Judge deals new legal setback to Boston Archdiocese Reuters - A judge has ordered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to release personnel files of all priests accused of molesting children in the last 50 years, local media reported on Thursday. Court tells diocese to release abuse files Boston Globe Former priest arrested on molestation charges Washington Times WCVB-TV - CNN Asia - Newsday - Penn Live - and 74 related » Google US News   2:21:05 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: Legal, War Judge denies bid to exclude Reid e-mails Boston Herald - A federal judge yesterday denied accused shoebomber Richard Reid's attempt to keep jurors from seeing incriminating e-mail messages voicing his contempt for America and bidding farewell to his mother. E-mail can be used in shoe bomb case Boston Globe Small quantity of explosives found on Moroccan passenger jet San Francisco Chronicle ABC News - CNN - Framingham Metro West Daily News - The Age - and 18 related » Google US News   2:18:38 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: Politics McBride gains on Gov. Bush in Florida United Press International - A poll showed Thursday that Democrat Bill McBride has closed to within 6 percentage points of Republican Gov. Jeb Bush in the race for governor of Florida. McBride closes gap in latest poll WPTV Governor's Race Poll: McBride Gaining On Bush WESH-TV Tampa bay Live - Palm Beach Post - Washington Times - Tampa Tribune - and 90 related » Google US News   2:16:39 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: SciTech Book Excerpt: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Pt 1 Key to your ability to design a solid, efficient infrastructure for your site is your ability to understand and implement the appropriate organization system. Our two part excerpt begins with a look at organization systems in general, and the specific systems we use on Web sites. From O'Reilly. 0923 WebReference News   2:08:28 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: SciTech Book Excerpt: Creating Applications with Mozilla, Pt. 2 Scripts aren't very useful if the end user has no way of triggering them. Part 2 of our excerpt series explains how to use Mozilla's event handling mechanism to tie your scripts into the User Interface. Also included: dynamically creating elements, and changing CSS on-the-fly. From O'Reilly. WebReference News   2:04:27 PM  Google It!  comment

categories: Politics Bush runs into trouble on Iraq in US and UN Financial Times - The Bush administration's campaign to win support at home and abroad for action against Iraq has run into substantial obstacles in Congress and at the United ... Joe Conason's Journal Salon The Healthy Politics of Iraq New York Times Economist - Daily Telegraph - Toronto Globe and Mail - CNN - and 450 related » Google US News   12:14:43 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: Biz Prices fall for CD-rewritable drives Shipments of CD-rewritable drives jump to unexpected levels, while sales suffer--a combination that could mean a happy holiday season for price-minded consumers. CNET News.com   12:06:35 AM  Google It!  comment