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The New Post-Amazon Bookstore - Andrew Sullivan's Book Club. This link will take you to Andrew Sullivan's Book Club. I wonder if this is the new post Amazon bookstore? Here is why I think this. Andrew enables us book nuts to have a club to talk about the books we like. He therefore extends the powerful reader review part of the Amazon site and creates a deeper community. If you buy the book from him linked to Amazon, he gets 15% but you don't pay any more. So Andrew becomes a power store for Amazon. Good for Andrew good for Jeff Bezos and good for me the reader who wants to participate in an informed forum. Andrew and Amazon make the book purchase very easy thus he and the reader piggy back on Amazon's system and logistics. He is a book store that has all the power of Amazon behind it and they pay him! Remember how long it took to get that copy and how much it cost from you friendly local bookseller? Let's go a bit deeper. Andrew's site is also like a book club. General Book clubs are OK for their owners but specialty book clubs - Military, Cooking etc - are exceptionally attractive. Lower overall volume but much more per member. Military buffs buy all the good books. This takes George Dafermos's ideas of the power of collaborative filtering to the next level as well. Maybe if Amazon is then a general book club - we can all then set up our own or join specialty clubs. Andrews is maybe too general right now. Anyone going to open a military club? Maybe I should? [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog]
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I'm always torn, patriot act as intrusive privacy piercing problem, or necessary to protect our country. In fact I'm not that worried. Sure they took down the twin towers, but most of us lived. Reminds me of airport security - the amount of tax evasion, and international fraud is not that high vs the amount associated with evil guys raising laundered money for terrorist missions. Now this sight will hit the govt radar on key word searches... Go away! Often...;-) ================ A Chilly Response to 'Patriot II'. Lawmakers and civil rights groups say a proposed follow-up to the USA Patriot Act goes too far in granting broad new surveillance powers to the Justice Department. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
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When will I ever have time to pay attention to all this - but Bill is a digerati - mover and shaker - so pay attention... ============= Gates lays out digital vision. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates outlines his vision for the coming decade in a speech given to the company's business partners. By Joe Wilcox, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]
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Idea to pass along to the single women I know. Who'd 've thunk... ================= Boyfriend Recommendation System. DOLLS! We all have charming male friends . . . smart, noble, successful, honest, good-looking guys who're between girlfriends . . . or who're just a tad shy . . . or who've had bad luck with women. Here's the open-hearted place where we women can write-up recommendations of these wonderful fellows, show their pictures and vouch for them. And here's the delicious part. If you want to FIND a great boyfriend, Darling, you have all these lovely men to choose from. [Smart Mobs]
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Considering that I've been looking at IBM life sciences consulting stuff, here is a cool idea - Virtual supercomputer. Reminds me of Jim Henderson's download of the SETI software to his Mac a few years ago. But here the application is more immediately useful (unless of course SETI finds the Vulcans), and the software development intelligence to create a virtual supercomputers. This concept is a cool social movement idea - people with similar interests who are dispersed, but linked via broadband can allow their computers to add their computing power to solve problems of interest to them. Intersection of High data processing and high social value problem - eg cancer genomic research, or extra terrestrial searches... ============== IBM Grid Computing: Join with us to fight Smallpox. Through the smallpox Grid project, potentially more than two million personal computers will be linked to create a virtual supercomputer that could deliver processing power greater than the most powerful supercomputers in use today. Researchers will use this massive computing power to analyze the active proteins in smallpox and screen approximately 35 million molecules to find drugs that will target these harmful proteins, and effectively treat or prevent smallpox infections [Smart Mobs]
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"Match" -- Wireless, Location-Based Dating Service. Match Mobile, a new service to be launched on Wednesday by Match.com and AT&T Wireless, provides dating and matching for AT&T Wireless customers via their mobile phones. "Wireless will be a hugely important technology for the future for our industry, which is to connect people for the purpose of dating," said Tim Sullivan, president of Match.com, a unit of USA Interactive and the biggest online dating site in the United States. Sullivan said one of the benefits of going mobile for Match is that the new service will have the ability to pair members based on location. Initially, matches will be made based on ZIP codes, but in coming months the service will be enhanced with technology so people can locate matches within an approximate geographical location by using their wireless phones. The search engine will never reveal actual physical locations, but simply allow customers to chat only with matches within a specified radius. [Smart Mobs]
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Key concept is the self-assembling project team that resembles film production. =================== From Jon's Radio One of the threads woven through my latest O'Reilly Network column is the notion that the film industry's project-oriented, just-in-time assembly of resources and talent is a leading indicator. "Every business will be like show business," say the authors of a 1995 Inc. Magazine story I quote in the article. What led me to hunt down that article was a conversation with my friend Andy Singleton, a serial entrepeneur [Now he goes on to extend the idea into self learning software...] Then he points out Andy Singleton's Byte article about Genetic Algorithm Software
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Again the boundaries of weblogging are defined by third party institutions... ============ One of the subjects we talked about last night are rules for an academic institution about weblogs run by students, faculty, staff, alumni, etc. MIT has some rules. It's a good place to begin the discussion. [Scripting News]
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Both of these articles look interesting - take the time to look em up... Morning in America. How do they do it? The Morning News is the kind of web publication I've always wanted to produce. They publish new stories every day, their design is succinct and tasty, they drive it all with Movable Type, I don't see any typos, and I don't imagine anyone's getting paid. I could hate them but I don't. I love them. But I also forget to go there and read the newer stuff for long stretches at a time. I may be blinded by envy. Months ago I asked the founders if I could interview them about the probably-sort-of-boring details of how they use MT to produce their publication, but I keep forgetting or other stuff keeps getting pushed up higher on my to-do list. And it's not like email interviews are time-consuming or hard to do. I'll get around to it eventually. They deserve all the attention and respect they can get, even though I don't have that much to offer them myself, probably only a tiny blip in whatever their readership traffic is today. Today, I read Starfucker, by Sarah Hepola, an Austin writer. As usual, it's good. I'm noticing that a lot of their contributors are professional writers, but they get a chance to write outside of the constraints of the paying media. Hepola's article is indirectly about how magazines work, how celebrity works, how interviews are brokered, the currency of fame, the role of journalists as gatekeepers and brokers, the process of selling out, and wanting to be liked. I recommend it. [Radio Free Blogistan]
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