Friday, March 22, 2002

How Google, the search engine, works. 8:38:29 PM

The Tipping Blog - How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic. When I published my first Microcontent News article last week, I wasn't expecting too much of a reaction. It was five in the morning, so I emailed my friend Hyl [Microcontent News] 8:03:37 PM

ICRA's F______g Good Filter. The nonprofit Internet Content Rating Association unveils a filter that can be custom-set at different levels, depending on what offends you. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News] 7:54:16 PM

Dale Gass from Photopoint answers our questions. Dale Gass, President of Pantellic Software (owner of failed photo sharing site Photopoint) has certainly featured in the headlines in the last few months and just a few days ago he gave an interview to CNET. Since... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] 7:52:31 PM

Tom Matrullo asks some interesting questions about our deal with the NY Times. I have written extensively about the difference between amateurs and pros. I use the terms the same way they apply to athletics. There's no implication of higher quality on either side, but if I had to make a choice, I'd prefer to read amateur stuff, it's more honest, less conflicted. Integration means having bloggers write for the Times and having Times reporters keep blogs. I've also written about that. Tom asks some other questions that I don't think, as the CEO of a private company, I have to or want to answer. BTW, unlike Tom, I was against Third Voice. If it had caught on, there would have been no difference between the Web and mail lists. I like mail lists for what they are. And I like the Web for what it is. And I thought the Times challenge of Amazon over use of the Times Best-Seller List was tacky, but then I don't think much of Amazon either. They could have been Google, they could have been on our side, and a stupid worthless patent was enough to turn them to the dark side. I think the Pew Internet (pointer?) writeup nailed it. Someone at NYTD thinks weblogs are important. But it's a big organization, a very venerable one, and there are two sides to that. I don't want to inherit any of the Times' conflicts, I am solidly a blogger, and an amateur, but I do want to help ease them into the new practice of journalism, and at the same time help bloggers take ourselves and each other more seriously. And maybe it's just a way of returning a kindness they did for me when they helped train my mind as a kid.   [Scripting News] 7:49:31 PM

ZDNN: Images may replace your lousy passwords. The key--images, which tend to make more of an impression on people than strings of text characters. Darko Kirovski, a cryptography and anti-piracy researcher at Microsoft, demonstrated a prototype password system at Microsoft offices in Mountain View, California, on Wednesday. [Tomalak's Realm] 7:46:10 PM

Computerworld: New services spur growth of public access Wi-Fi. Public access wireless LAN service shared the center ring here at the annual Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association trade show with third generation mobile data, and one major carrier promised to deliver combined Wi-Fi/cellular services by early next year. [Tomalak's Realm] 5:43:34 AM

Bandwidth Shortage And The Telephone Company [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 5:39:23 AM

Google Relists Operation Clambake [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 5:36:50 AM

DaveNet: Scientology and Google.  [Scripting News] 5:35:58 AM

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