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New Categories Regular readers (all 3 of you) will see that I've revamped my categories.
If you click on a category (on the right), you'll go to a page of posts on just that category. For you news aggies out there, you can scroll to the bottom of each page and copy the RSS URL to subscribe to just that category. 6:16:14 PM 
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Marketing I'm a student at the University of Pheonix, Online, and will complete my Bachelors of Science degree in Business/Marketing in November 2003. I'll post various finding regarding marketing and the Internet here. 6:10:08 PM
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Law journal I am fascinated by the law, particularly how it related to the Internet. 6:08:30 PM
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The Code Journal Here I'll post items concerning writing software 6:07:45 PM
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Gallery will open soon In this channel, I will post new posters and music files... 6:07:00 PM
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Comments on the Power Distribution Piece Jonathon Delacour has some interesting things to say about Clay Shirky's latest essay: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality. My instinct is that the real innovations in blogging will be made by those of us in limbo: without the pressures of producing for mainstream tastes but with the ambition to do more than chat amongst a tiny number of friends. The conversations we're already having—about politics, relationships, geek stuff, and a lot more—go infinitely deeper than Shirkey's "account of a Saturday night" and yet we haven't even begun to scratch the surface of what's possible. How that will transform the ways individuals and organizations interrelate remains to be seen but I strongly believe that this is one of those rare occasions where the excitement and potential exists in the middle rather than at the edges.I, for one, am interested in this middle ground. I have domain expertise, and I need to be focusing on it more here. It is my hope that once I am done with school, I can spend more time researching and writing articles on various topics, like the blogosphere, internet market, and internet law. Which reminds me, I need to clean up my categories in Radio...! 5:16:14 PM
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NetNewsWire 1.0 Congrats to Brent! Thanks to all the beta testers and folks who’ve helped along the way—NetNewsWire 1.0 is now shipping!Interested in a boxed version of your product? 3:31:41 PM
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Software In A BoxBill Gurley seems to have returned from his writing exile, and is now explaining why many technology executives are realizing that hardware is a better business than software. He makes some interesting points - but misses the most important one. As he points out, software has a nearly zero variable cost - which means that if there's any competition, the price will get driven down towards zero. He mentions this briefly - but it's the most important point. Software, by itself, is difficult to productize, because if the environment ever gets truly competitive, you won't be able to sell it for any money. Instead, companies can take advantage of that zero marginal cost by using it (for free) to enhance the value of something else (the hardware). Suddenly it becomes a free input, making the hardware more valuable. It's just basic economics. Of course, the same applies for music and plenty of other digital goods, but those industries aren't quite ready to accept that yet. [Techdirt]I'm not sure I agree with you completely... there is still plenty of productivity markets for software out there: office, creative, journaling. Also, I think software should be better integrated with services. Journaling is probably much bigger than any of us realize. If there is real innovation, then there is a real market. 10:49:23 AM
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Bayesian and Latent Semantic analyses demystified Everyone is talking about bayesian filters being applied to spam, but I continue to believe that they can be used in interesting ways around weblogs and the blogosphere! Very good, cogent explanation of Bayesian and Latent Semantic analysis techniques, which are means whereby a computer is asked to "understand" a document so that it can be automatically classified. Both techniques are being widely hailed as the great code hope of spam-filtering.Latent semantic analysis (or indexing) is an application of what's called principal components analysis (PCA), or factors analysis, to the domain of information organization. In the basic version, you form a big 2-D matrix with documents (e-mails for instance) along one axis and terms (word, phrases) along the other, and fill in the entries with a 0 when the term doesn't occur in the document, and with a 1 (or count) when it does. Then you take the resulting monstrous matrix and grind it up with an algorithm that finds covariance patterns. That's to say, the associations of words "latent' in the document base you feed in are going to be found. Shovel in several weeks worth of news stories and it's going to be obvious that 'Saddam' and 'Iraq' are highly correlated, or 'Tiger' and 'golf'. The method actually kicks out a transformation matrix into which you can feed the terms observed in a particular document, and get out a score for that document in terms of "warness" or "golfness" - those are principal components, or factors. You compute and save as many factors as you want - presumably less than the number of original terms. (Apologies to any wandering mathematicians for the gross simplications.)LinkDiscuss 10:38:49 AM
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Searchable weblog via google This is one of the great aspects of the blogosphere... ask, and ye shall receive, often times within hours of your original request!
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Searchable Weblog Why isn't search at the top of everyone's list?!?! Via James Strachan, a way for FreeRoller users (and others) to get their own search engine. While Search is definately on the Feature List for Roller, it hasn't been an itch anyone has wanted to scratch (apparently). I keep thinking about it, but it just isn't a priority for me (and I'm hoping someone with real experience with Lucene will step up to the plate). 10:16:50 AM
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Fun with triple-6 Fun facts about everyone's favorite number... for example: The sum of the squares of the first 7 primes is 666: 9:57:09 AM
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