Saturday, December 18, 2004

Search Engine for Handwritten Documents – University of Massachuestts. Andy Beal’s Search Engine Lowdown reports that Slashdot readers pointed to new search engine technology created by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst which is able to search handwritten documents. The UMass article says: “Historians and researchers searching through handwritten documents,... [Portals and KM]
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This is a link to that information metrics survey (the executive summary) done by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.

A few interesting items from this summary.....

  1. Most radio and TV broadcast content is not new information. About 70 million hours (3,500 terabytes) of the 320 million hours of radio broadcasting is original programming. TV worldwide produces about 31 million hours of original programming (70,000 terabytes) out of 123 million total hours of broadcasting.

 

How we use information. Published studies on media use say that the average American adult uses the telephone 16.17 hours a month, listens to radio 90 hours a month, and watches TV 131 hours a month. About 53% of the U.S. population uses the Internet, averaging 25 hours and 25 minutes a month at home, and 74 hours and 26 minutes a month at work – about 13% of the time


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"The Best Webcomics of 2004" [Daypop Top 40]

just a little fun, I really didn't realize this much variety existed in web comics,..

 


5:43:05 PM     comment []

W3 Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition

Taken directly from the standard abstract:.........., this architecture document
discusses the core design components of the Web. They are identification of
resources, representation of resource state, and the protocols that support the
interaction between agents and resources in the space. We relate core design components, constraints, and good practices to the principles and properties they support.

 


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