Sociology professor Todd Gitlin writes about the causes of 'national attention deficit disorder'.
Matt Labash
Red-light cameras are all over Washington — and coming to a city near you. The science behind them is bad and the police are using them to make money, not save lives. It's much worse than you thought.
John Hiler
As a journalist covering the weblog beat, I officially love weblogs. But sometimes that love can be sorely tested.
Now, in the latest attempt to automate the news, a group of Columbia researchers have launched Newsblaster, a project that uses natural language processing techniques to summarize top headlines. [ ... ] Google recently launched a similar service to collect headlines from multiple sources. Google's News Search service uses a unique grouping technology that automatically puts related stories together in the same search result. [ ... ] The University of Michigan is working on a similar service called NewsInEssence, which also uses natural language techniques to find and summarize multiple news articles on the Web.
The government lawyers, reflecting Congress' kowtowing to the entertainment industry, weren't interested in the possibility that someone might use the software to do something legitimate. The only concern was that someone might be able to use it to do something illegitimate.
The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank™...
Hiawatha Bray
The Postal Service must make up this revenue drain somehow. Thus this year's postal rate hike and the further increases sure to follow. An Internet tax? You bet.
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