Adam Curry has a link to the Al Jazeera videos. [Scripting News]
7:19:15 PM    

MacCentral: Mac OS X Panther to be demoed at WWDC. [Hack the Planet]
8:15:45 AM    

OpenShiiva looks like the holy grail of DVD rippers; it's single-pass, it claims to have good audio sync, and it outputs a standard file format. [Hack the Planet]
8:15:25 AM    

Computers learn to look and listen. Researchers in the UK are working on making computers that can recognise human emotions a reality. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
8:14:28 AM    

Best feeds for war coverage: AP War News (provided by GoUpstate), BBC World News, NY Times Front Page, International, National, Politics (provided by UserLand). [Scripting News]
8:13:24 AM    

Cyberjournalist: Weblogs and Diaries from Embedded Journalists. [Scripting News]
8:12:51 AM    

Good Experience: From July 18, 2000; Surviving the Bit Infinity [Tomalak's Realm]
8:12:18 AM    

Fortune: There's a Killer App on the Loose--But I'm on the Case. Stewart Alsop. The most innovative products I saw at Demo were programs designed to keep e-mail away from me, organize it, or make the information it contains accessible to colleagues who need it. [Tomalak's Realm]
8:11:51 AM    

Robert Kaye: Open Projects Escrow. [Hack the Planet]
8:11:07 AM    

Mobiles to monitor children. A new system allows parents to keep a closer eye on the movements of their children via their mobile phones. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
8:10:39 AM    

Good morning Internet!.

Here's an idea. Should Google take who's doing the search into account when doing its page rank work? For example, last night over at Bob Doyle's house, I said Let's go eat at that Chinese restaurant on Central Square that has spicy noodles. Bob said Okay, what's the name? I thought, How am I going to find the name? Aha! I put it on Scripting News for just this occasion. So we go to Google, click on Advanced Search, set the domain to this one, and search for MIT noodles. Two hits, the top one is the correct one. Then later (and here's the insight) I realized that Google could take note that I do that kind of search a few times a day. Clearly I think Scripting News is pretty authoritative, way more so than almost any other site. Can that be factored into the results they give me? I think perhaps I should patent this so no one else can.

Note to my lawyer friends. We should have a place to note new inventions, or things that occurred to plain old users, as defenses against patents in the future. I say that the idea of an adaptive search engine, one that learns about the person using it over time is just plain obvious. I'm registering that thought now with Google, whose crawlers index this site regularly. Later on, when they patent it, as they are sure to, let's be sure we can smack them hard with proof that it was a pretty obvious idea.

[Scripting News]
8:09:58 AM