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I wonder if anybody is thinking that there might be a better way to organize a story using the tools of the Internet, creating a timeline view of the news. What if each news story had its own “blog” and the developments were added as they occurred?
news indeed needs to use the hyperlink much more pervasively than the timid linking to company homepages, often not even with markup, that media does today.
Jurvetson shares the view espoused by Ray Kurzweil that the next 20 years of technological progress will be equivalent to the entire 20th century, and will help fuel great progress in advanced AI. In our podcast conversation, we discuss designed and evolutionary approaches to developing smart AI as well as the possible cultural impact of machine intelligences and genetic enhancements the surpass human capabilities. In addition, Jurvetson offers his views on how nanotechnology, molecular electronics and quantum computing carry on Moore’s Law and could bring about profound, life-altering changes in the next few decades.
i am having cognitive dissonance as gadget droolers and forever behind the adoption curve rags like ziff davis discuss the singularity. next: home and garden magazine.
The idea is to not just squeeze or crop the image as it is resized to fit (say) a browser window, but to remove less informative parts so that important objects and people remain. the browser compresses the image and the designer has made Y a preferred seam. We will tend to see X and Z, and likely never think of Y. This is a form of manipulation more subtle than just removing Y, since the designer can now truthfully say that the photo is authentic
The New York Times recently got some search-engine-optimization religion, and as a result its articles, including old stories from its vast archives, are now more likely to appear at or near the top of web searches. But the tactic has had an unintended consequence, writes the paper’s public editor, Clark Hoyt, in a thought-provoking article today: “Long-buried information about people that is wrong, outdated or incomplete is getting unwelcome new life. People are coming forward at the rate of 1 a day to complain that they are being embarrassed, are worried about losing or not getting jobs, or may be losing customers because of the sudden prominence of old news articles that contain errors or were never followed up.”
the notion that any “story” is ever finished is so quaint. as media gets serious about exposing their archive to search, they will have to deal with these undead stories.
Mr. Nakagawa’s simple Web site has become the center of the “LOLcats” phenomenon, a booming online subculture built around digital images and deliberately bad grammar. There’s not much to it: Take a digital photo — often one of household pets, particularly cats — and purposefully place misspelled text on top. Anyone with elementary skills in Adobe’s Photoshop or Microsoft’s Paint software can make their own. Nearly 9 months after launching icanhascheezburger.com, Mr. Nakagawa’s site receives around 200K unique visitors and a 500K page views each day.
hat tip to the new owner or trying to be more attuned to the times?
More US TV watchers are getting older, a condition that gives them more overall time for watching TV
with tv being such a braindead, near death experience, no wonder geriatrics flock to it.
A scientist hooked up some subjects to virtual-reality systems — and hacked their brains into having an out-of-body experience. The experiments were based on a long-known trick called the “rubber hand illusion.” In this one, people hide one hand in their laps while looking at a rubber hand on the table in front of them. A researcher strokes the fake with a stick — while simultaneously stroking the real hand in precisely the same way. Pretty soon the subject begins to identify so strongly with the rubber hand that if you smash it with a hammer, the subject will freak out and “feel” the pain.
the potential for entertainment.
Many publishers consider the Internet, and Google in particular, a greater threat to their livelihoods than Osama bin Laden.
from that sample it appears that retardation is the biggest threat with these hacks. bin laden a threat to them personally?
USAToday went from being an old school news site to something much different. Readers could now create profiles, comment on articles, vote to recommend articles to others (very Digg-like), etc. Unique visitors and page views aren’t spiking upwards, perhaps as USA Today and Pluck anticipated. There is no doubt that the Pluck products are very solid products, but perhaps news and social networking just don’t mix.
what did they expect? usa today is average in every way and reading it is a completely forgettable experience. good riddance
Most Americans know what a parfait is, but take that same idea and make the layers avocado salad, crabmeat, and pink grapefruit, and you get an entirely new dish called a verrine
nice. i hope bea can leverage this into a gig at a less hidebound organization.
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