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posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 04:19pm on 17/08/2005 under , , ,
How to snark the digital content industry in one easy quote:
"Typically we're not going to repurpose a fashion show as a podcast. But an interview with Kate Hudson, that would work fine."

Bernard Gershon, a digital-media executive with the ABC television network, on finding another way to avoid creating original content for the Web, Wired News, 15 August 2005

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,68503,00.html
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posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 08:17pm on 17/08/2005 under , , , ,
...search engines are everywhere. And they're getting bigger and bigger, and more and more effective.

See this picture?



It's a building just down from the EFF's headquarters in San Francisco.

That chap having a quick fag?

He's the EFF's main lawyer on privacy cases.

The picture? It's from Amazon's A9 search engine's building-by-building, street-by-street photography that adds images to its local search. If you search for a company you'll get to see just what their offices look like, and the landmarks around them. It's a useful tool that's not breaking any laws - but could be seen as a huge invasion of privacy.

A recent talk by the EFF's Danny O'Brien mentioned the fact that the truly rich and powerful hire librarians to scour search engines for their names, and then use the resulting information to track down leaks. And then erase the leaked information...

In today's information economy real privacy is only available to the very few. Which is why Google's spat with CNET is so very very silly. If I'm working on a piece, of course I'm going to use search engines to help me find out information that can help me write a good article - whether its from company websites, news services, or personal blogs.

Welcome to The Transparent Society.

It's not such a bad place to be now, is it...
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posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 08:54pm on 17/08/2005 under , , ,
Flickr is now exposing its "interestingness" ratings for your photos.

Interestingly, my most "interesting" image is not my most popular (though it is closely related to it)...
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