Working for the Machine
salamander, frog, toad … michigan … headphones, computer, chair … boy, girl, small, large … ac/dc, back in black Every piece or set of data we create or encounter – from basic objects to the most...
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“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind” Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) One of the Michigan blogs I like – bootstrap analysis – had a link to The Scientist’s attempts to...
View ArticleSocial networks … reaching out of their boxes?
Wired wrote aboutthe newly minted Open Social platform yesterday saying: From the preliminary details it looks like Google agrees with what we said a couple months ago — it’s time for social networks...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Idea: $100 laptop – give one, get one
Dunrie over at Scientific Ink pointed out the very cool Give One Get One program from One Laptop Per Child (OLPC). If you order by November 26, you can get a $100 XO laptop and also give one to a...
View ArticleDatabase Massage, Jill Sobule, and Neil Young
“Why does flickr go down so much?” I wondered to The Google. None less than net luminary Tim O’Reilly answered my call with a database war story that revealed the tip of the brobdingnagian iceberg...
View ArticleYouTube of a YouTube of a … WHAAA!
YouTube has released new developer APIs. These APIs allow you to turn YouTube from a web site or piece of media to a service that runs in your web site. Heads explode at 11. Internet explodes at 12*....
View Articlein the google cloud
In Google Takes to The Cloud With App Hosting Platform, internetnews.com reports on The Google’s latest party favor: Google App Engine. “With Google App Engine, developers can write Web applications...
View ArticleDangerous amusements
I was emailing someone to tell them not to worry when a big site like Flickr or YouTube loses a bunch of media, that despite the fact that those sites are massive and complex systems, there’s a lot of...
View ArticleStanding on the shore
One of the peculiar & cool features of WordPress blogs is that they are strewn across the vast shore of blogs that is WordPress.com. WordPress uses categories and/or tags to taxonomically link...
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