Monday, September 09, 2002

[Asia Business Intelligence] QUOTE elgooG won elbissecca ni anihC? Slashdot posts a discussion of a "backwards" Google search engine that appears to defeat China's filter.  But how many Chinese will know to use it?  Besides, this writer couldn't make it work in Chinese! That said, the concept is interesting.  A New Scientist article on the site is viewable here. UNQUOTE [Asia Business Intelligence] I have found really neat things before on New Scientist ... that is a great site to explore. 7:14:10 PM

[Boing Boing Blog] QUOTE Ten things the Net got right. Dan Gillmor's new column -- it's hard to pick a quote from this, the whole thing's just so right on. Link Discuss UNQUOTE [Boing Boing Blog] I think what helped get it right was for the infrastructure to not be owned by one vendor, putting the Information Highway out there for anyone to connect to and use, having competion between different providers of different services. Government funding of research has often been healthy for a nation, such as Department of Defense ARPANET into the Universities. I think some politicians collected votes by pushing for better computer education in the school system. 1:20:45 PM

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