Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 by BH
While still at the research stage, I see much promise:
Since headlines began trumpeting the antiaging effects of red wine a couple of years ago, the traditional toast to good health has become more meaningful. But students at Rice University, in Texas, think that beer drinkers shouldn't be left out. They're ...
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 by BH
Perhaps of interest. From InformIT:
What Does Google Know about You? And Who Are They Telling? Googling Security: How Much Does Google Know About You? is the first book to reveal how Google's vast information stockpiles could be used against you or your business — and what you can do to ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 by BH
As you might guess, this is a lighter post than normal. The blog Lateral Action lists 8 rules you can use to transform yourself into a more innovative person or to create more innovative content. The post is based on lines from the book/movie Fight Club. You don't have to ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008 by BH
Via the Curious Capitalist:
When last I checked, the Dow was up 6.9% and the S&P 7.5% in reaction to Paul Krugman getting the economics Nobel before trading began this morning. In London the FTSE ended the trading day up 8.26% and in Frankfurt the DAX was up 11.4%.
This is just ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 by CJB
I do enjoy when the federal government gets with the Technological Age. FCW
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 by BH
I know virtually no physics, but I do know that one goal of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to do research that might eventually tell us about the Higgs boson or BEH Mechanism, which is commonly known as the god particle. Following recent news stories about the LHC ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008 by CJB
The Alley Insider has a nice piece on this. The Justice Department has apparently hired Sandy Litvack to potentially take on Google in its advertising deal with Yahoo.
On a side note, the Justice department hiring an outside lawyer...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by BH
From the Google Reader Blog comes news, perhaps old news to many of you, that the team is offering a new site called Power Readers in Politics. The site contains news that political journalists and staff from both political campaigns share from their own reader files. Check it out. See ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by BH
It was only a matter of time (Law X.0): "Attorneys are turning to various Social Networking sites looking for any bit of information that might aid in process of selecting or removing jurors."
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 by BH
Among both men and women, those who were more open to experience were also more likely to blog - perhaps unsurprisingly given that blogging is a relatively new phenomenon and given that this personality dimension is associated with creativity.
They forgot the part about being unbearably handsome and charming, but perhaps ...
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by BH
John Timmer at ars technica discusses results from a report by the Communications Workers of America (ars):
The median broadband user in the States is getting about 2.3mbps and uploading at 435kbps. That compares pretty unfavorably to some of the industrialized Asian nations, where the median download speed is 63mbps, or ...
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 by BH
Apple's market capitalization surpassed Google's today, despite having a much lower price per share. For more see Appleinsider.
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by BH
Enough books on environmental doom have been printed to kill off a forest of giant redwoods.
That's Harvard economist Edward Glaeser reviewing Paul and Anne Ehrlich's new book, The Dominant Animal, in the New York Sun (NYS). For the most part he likes the book, just not their policy recommendations. For ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by BH
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. A meaty read, as I indicated in a previous post.
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson. This is obviously a classic and I feel bad only getting to it now. It is a great example of what a popular nonfiction book should be. It has ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by BH
From a speech by Clay Shirky on his blog:
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 by BH
I am about halfway through Clay Shirky's book. So far so good. For example:
Communication tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn't create change; it has to have been around long enough that most of society is using it. It's when a ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by BH
Such a question is well beyond me, even if I limit it to disciplines I know well and only consider people who are still alive. Arnold Kling offers one view (EconLog):
If we go with the Internet or the Web as the greatest achievement of modern thought, then I think we ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by BH
Eric Horvitz, a principal researcher at Microsoft (MSFT), has spent more than a decade creating artificial-intelligence systems that observe humans at work. These software programs, which reside on computers and various handheld gadgets, watch and listen to the user, tracking digital calendars and noting key contacts. And they apply mathematical ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by BH
Apparently the Associated Press (AP) has no interest in sharing its content online. AP went after the Drudge Retort this past weekend because of some user generated comments and articles that linked to and quoted from AP stories. AP just released a new policy that bans pretty much any use ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 by CJB
I don't know about the rest of you, but there were lots of people at my work watching the U.S Open golf tournament today during work hours. I am sure there was a huge bandwidth spike, but more importantly apparently, was that we were able to watch it commercial free ...
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