Thursday, 27 November 2003

BlogPulse [BETA]: Automated Trend Discovery for Weblogs

"BlogPulse mines for bursty phrases and person names instead of for the most popular ones. The most popular phrases and names change very slowly over time. The burstiest phrases and names are those whose frequency of occurrence has increased significantly over the past two weeks, often dramatically."

COOL!

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iPod's 'dirty secret' wins Web fans

Irked by the difficulty and expense of replacing the dead batteries in their iPod, two filmmakers have embarked on an 'antiadvertising' Net campaign. [more]

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CBS News | The Strange World Of Web Celebs | November 20, 2003 19:40:52

I turned the TV on this morning and saw a segment on the "Today Show".  They ran a segment originally produced by CBS about the Star Wars Kid:

A kid alone with a video camera waving a golfball retriever, like a Jedi warrior. A private moment of clumsy 10th grade innocence until four classmates put the tape on the Internet.

Today, as CBS News Correspondent Bob McNamara reports, this 15-year-old small town Canadian is known to tens of millions planet-wide as the "Star Wars Kid."
  [more]

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