The stupid Times editorial:
>>>
It's not journalism
Google's latest effort highlights the difference between what it does and what newspapers and magazines do.
August 17, 2007
Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden.
Among those who have taken particular offense at Google are some current and aspiring newspaper publishers, including Sam Zell (who's in the process of buying Tribune Co., owner of the Los Angeles Times), who once famously asked, "If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?"
continued @
the Times
And a great point by point rebuttal of the Times' paranoid ignorance:
>>>>
The L.A. Times tells its readers: 'Shut up'
Commentary: A Times editorial attacks the concept of reader comments on news stories, declaring Google a greater threat "than Osama bin Laden."
By Robert Niles
Posted: 2007-08-17
The Los Angeles Times this morning insulted its readers in a stunning editorial that compared Google with Osama bin Laden and showed why Times editors simply do not understand the medium that is growing to dominate the news publishing industry. A point by point rebuttal follows:
Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden.
Who are these publishers, exactly? The Times' David Hiller? Ignore the straw man here and the reader is still left with The Times' belief that a search engine company which has helped millions of people around the world more effectively find the information they need, and that has paid publishers billions of dollars to create original content (full disclosure: including OJR and me, personally) is a greater threat to journalism and Western capitalism than a murderer who killed 3,000
Americans on 9/11.
Wow.
After The Times lit its credibility on fire with that statement, one shouldn't need to dissect the rest of its ridiculous editorial.
But I will. ;-)
more @
Online Journalism Review
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
The email that gives Jews the 'Heebie Jeebies'
An anti-Semitic Web site is first on Google when you search for 'Jew,' and alarmist e-mail about the phenom is making the rounds again.
Two people here at JewishJournal.com got the email last week and both asked me what was up. I told them not to worry, it was old news, not to get the Heebie Jeebies.
The Heebie Jeebies -- 1932 -- the Boswell Sisters
But it was new to them, so I thought some of you guys might want to learn more as well.
Here's some background from the Anti-Defamation League and the response from Google.
The gist: We know about it, and we're working on it, please stand by.
The hate site everyone writes about is only the tip of the iceberg. The Web is filled with everything imaginable (both good and bad), and some things unimaginable. Sometimes it seems to me there are people (robots?) who do nothing but post hate and propaganda to message boards all day long, all week.
The hate on the venerable Yahoo! News message boards caused Y! (disclosure: I once worked there) to close down their message boards entirely.
The videos I see every night when I comb YouTube (search for "Jew") are a cesspool of bigotry.
What to do?
I can't speak for everyone else at JewishJournal.com, but my response is to "represent!"
That's the reason I started our JewishJournal.com YouTube Channel. Positive, fun, interesting videos. Rabbis, rockers, rebels. No hate. No anti-anything. Just the wild wonderful world of Jews, Judios, and Yahudim.
Tell your friends.
-- Dennis Wilen
Two people here at JewishJournal.com got the email last week and both asked me what was up. I told them not to worry, it was old news, not to get the Heebie Jeebies.
The Heebie Jeebies -- 1932 -- the Boswell Sisters
But it was new to them, so I thought some of you guys might want to learn more as well.
Here's some background from the Anti-Defamation League and the response from Google.
The gist: We know about it, and we're working on it, please stand by.
The hate site everyone writes about is only the tip of the iceberg. The Web is filled with everything imaginable (both good and bad), and some things unimaginable. Sometimes it seems to me there are people (robots?) who do nothing but post hate and propaganda to message boards all day long, all week.
The hate on the venerable Yahoo! News message boards caused Y! (disclosure: I once worked there) to close down their message boards entirely.
The videos I see every night when I comb YouTube (search for "Jew") are a cesspool of bigotry.
What to do?
I can't speak for everyone else at JewishJournal.com, but my response is to "represent!"
That's the reason I started our JewishJournal.com YouTube Channel. Positive, fun, interesting videos. Rabbis, rockers, rebels. No hate. No anti-anything. Just the wild wonderful world of Jews, Judios, and Yahudim.
Tell your friends.
-- Dennis Wilen
Friday, August 3, 2007
The love you take, by0tch
I always want my sites to be more than ON the Web -- they need to be OF the Web as well.
This means linking out.
Linking out's rewards are manifold and glorious, a packet-protocol potlatch of publicity, and they even have their own theme song:
o/` The love you take is equal to the love you make o/`
This means linking out.
Linking out's rewards are manifold and glorious, a packet-protocol potlatch of publicity, and they even have their own theme song:
o/` The love you take is equal to the love you make o/`
Saturday, July 14, 2007
bluetooth rots your brain!
bluetooth rots your brain!
you heard it here first!
<<<<<<<<<<<
Remember your home phone number?
Forget it!
Fri Jul 13, 11:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)
Can't remember life before mobiles? Chances are you'll also struggle to recall your home phone number and family birthdays.
According to a survey released Friday, the boom in mobiles and portable devices that store reams of personal information has created a generation incapable of memorizing simple things.
A quarter of those polled said they couldn't remember their landline number, while two-thirds couldn't recall the birthdays of more than three friends or family members.
The tech-savvy young fared worse than older people. The under-30s could remember fewer birthdays and numbers than the over-50s, according to the survey.
Two-thirds said they relied on their phone or electronic organizer to remember key dates.
read more here
you heard it here first!
<<<<<<<<<<<
Remember your home phone number?
Forget it!
Fri Jul 13, 11:54 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters)
Can't remember life before mobiles? Chances are you'll also struggle to recall your home phone number and family birthdays.
According to a survey released Friday, the boom in mobiles and portable devices that store reams of personal information has created a generation incapable of memorizing simple things.
A quarter of those polled said they couldn't remember their landline number, while two-thirds couldn't recall the birthdays of more than three friends or family members.
The tech-savvy young fared worse than older people. The under-30s could remember fewer birthdays and numbers than the over-50s, according to the survey.
Two-thirds said they relied on their phone or electronic organizer to remember key dates.
read more here
Sunday, July 1, 2007
the interwebs -- they're made of people! mmmm! people!
The Newest Artificial Intelligence Computing Tool: People
Science Daily — A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.
That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information.
Lerman shared her recent work with others in the burgeoning new field of social information processing a special AAAI-sponsored symposium on the subject March 26-28 at Stanford.
She says that extracting 'metadata' about transactions -- who is talking to whom, who is listening, how conclusions are reached, and how they spread -- can help researchers answer currently refractory problems about documents: their accuracy and quality, their categorization, the relation of their embedded terminology.
One benefit, according to Lerman, who in addition to her ISI appointment, is a research assistant professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California, is automatic determination of the semantics of content from one kind of metadata: tags.
Tags play a crucial role in a longrunning project called the Semantic Web.
more @ ScienceDaily.com
Science Daily — A USC Information Sciences Institute researcher thinks she has found a new source of artificial intelligence computing power to solve difficult IT problems of information classification, reliability, and meaning.
That tool, according to ISI computer scientist Kristina Lerman, is people, human intelligence at work on the social web, the network of blogs, bookmark, photo and video- sharing sites, and other meeting places now involving hundreds of thousands of individuals daily, recording observations and sharing opinions and information.
Lerman shared her recent work with others in the burgeoning new field of social information processing a special AAAI-sponsored symposium on the subject March 26-28 at Stanford.
She says that extracting 'metadata' about transactions -- who is talking to whom, who is listening, how conclusions are reached, and how they spread -- can help researchers answer currently refractory problems about documents: their accuracy and quality, their categorization, the relation of their embedded terminology.
One benefit, according to Lerman, who in addition to her ISI appointment, is a research assistant professor at the Viterbi School of Engineering Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California, is automatic determination of the semantics of content from one kind of metadata: tags.
Tags play a crucial role in a longrunning project called the Semantic Web.
more @ ScienceDaily.com
Thursday, June 28, 2007
You know you're getting old ...
... when you're a collectible on eBay!
and show up in back issues of old magazines.
This last piece foreshadowed today's DRM issues -- tapers and bootleggers were the MP3 rippers of their era, and heroes to some and villains to others.
Oh, I bought the eBay item lest it fall into the wrong hands ...
;-)
and show up in back issues of old magazines.
This last piece foreshadowed today's DRM issues -- tapers and bootleggers were the MP3 rippers of their era, and heroes to some and villains to others.
Oh, I bought the eBay item lest it fall into the wrong hands ...
;-)
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
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