Groklaw, 88% of YouTube is New and Original Content, Professor Says.
The citation is to this (long) YouTube presentation, “An anthropological introduction to YouTube” by Dr. Michael Wesch, an anthropologist at Kansas State University.
(Lots of other interesting stuff there too.)
Ted Byfield notices something interesting: Google: 'Privacy? Depends—where are you?'.
Documenting and figuring out how Google treats different language/national groups differently is going to be a full time job for someone…
From Emergent Chaos: Leveraging Public Data For Competitive Purposes who will I hope forgive me for quoting an entire post, but it's just so amazing:
The Freakonomics blog pretty much says it all:
The latest: importgenius.com, the brainchild of brothers Ryan and David Petersen, with Michael Kanko. They exploit customs reporting obligations and Freedom of Information requests to organize and publish — in real-time — the contents of every shipping container entering the United States.
From importgenius.com.There’s a neat ticker on the bottom of their page showing a trickle of these data. Watch it for a few minutes: it’s mesmerizing and provides a sometimes beautiful window into the wonders of international trade.
Talk about a not-so-covert channel leaking what your business is up to on a daily basis. What the Petersens and Kanko are onto is yet another unintended consequence of globalization. It makes me wonder what other sources like this are out there and accessible via the Freedom of Information Act. Similarly, as one commenter on the above article asked, how soon before people try to game the system:
I wonder if something like this will lead to a rise in ‘creative’ customs declarations. Say a proxy company to take that new shipment of 22,000 digital thingies that are then immediately sold to Apple and thus mitigating the chances of someone predicting the street date of their latest offering
Do you run BIND as a caching resolver? If so, I gather this new exploit, CERT VU#800113 DNS Cache Poisoning Issue, is a pretty big deal, and you need a patch NOW.
Update: Links to more about this at Emergent Chaso, Massive Coordinated Vendor Patch For DNS. Patches for products other than BIND are out or will be soon.
I have found what I believe to be one of the last types of information for which search on the Internet remains utterly useless: finding where fireworks stands might located in the South Dade area.
I did discover that there's a store in Key Largo, but that's kinda far.
The big July 4 celebration in Coral Gables at the Biltmore has been canceled again — perhaps permanently. And the family doesn't want one of those boxes they sell in Publix this year…
If you wait long enough, everything comes back into style, and it seems that on the Internet the process is even faster than in fashion. Example:
Hand-coding HTML is in fashion again. The article says “still”, but I think it's really “again”.
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