Thursday, February 09, 2006

violent Danish, Western Websites Under Attack. [Slashdot] this advertising medium is a new venue on the quickly expanding front -- BL 9:57:06 AM    comment

search Search engine, find engine. I've experimented with a few different ways of searching this blog. The structured search feature exploits microformats, and can find things like Ward Cunningham quotes and XSLT snippets. The infoworld explorer works in a purely navigational mode, relying on tag discovery. And the infoworld power search repackages the output of InfoWorld's Ultraseek engine into a slightly more palatable format, classifying articles by type. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:36:22 AM    comment

AI U.S. Gov To Spider Internet. [Slashdot] 8:34:39 AM    comment

"The World is Flat" and "Ha Ha Ha America". In this lecture covering topics from his latest book, The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman describes the unplanned cascade of technological and social shifts that effectively leveled the economic world, and “accidentally made Beijing, Bangalore [Toronto] and Bethesda next-door neighbors. This lecture is available through the MIT Open Courseware Project. For an interesting companion piece to this lecture, have a look at the recent short film Ha Ha Ha America, by Jon Daniel Ligon, available on the Sundance Festival site at: http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/film.aspx?which=402&;category=DOC [Academic Commons -] 8:31:21 AM    comment