The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Enterprise Search: Confusing Going to Weeds with Being Weeds I seem to run into references to the write up by a “expert”. I know the person is an expert because the author says: As an Enterprise Search expert, I get a lot of questions about Search and Information Architecture (IA). The source of this remarkable …
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Overreliance on Search Engines? The Salon.com article titled Google Makes Us All Dumber: The Neuroscience of Search Engines probes the ever-increasing reliance on search engines and finds that the way we use them is problematic. This is due to the way our brains respond to this simplified question and answer process. The article stipulates that …
Quote to Note: Users Want Relevant Results October 6, 2014 I highlighted this remarkable, earth shaking statement from “Google+ Is Hurting the Internet.” Here’s the passage: …they [users] prefer to get the most relevant results. The information appears in a Web page presenting “objective study results” conducted for a European group. The target is poor, …
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New York Times Online: An Inside View Check out the presentation “The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com.” I was surprised at some of the information in the slide deck. First, I thought the New York Times was first online in the 1970s via LexisNexis. I thought that was an exclusive deal and reasonably profitable …
Google and Its Possible Really, Really Big Ambitions I read “Looking Past the Search Results: Google 2.0 Will Build Airports and Cities Says Report.” The “report” appears to be the work of an outfit doing business as “The Information.” The founder of The Information is Jessica E. Lessin. She was a Wall Street Journal reporter. …
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Free Law Textbooks Challenge Copyright Maximalism August 28, 2014 The article titled Duke Professor Looking To Make Legal Texts Affordable; Kicking Off With Intellectual Property Law on Techdirt refers to the work of James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. Both work in the Center of the Study of Public Domain at Duke Law School and hoped …
The Cloud: Flecked with Scattered Twinkie-Like Information I read “Cloud Revenue Jumps, Led by Old Computing Titans.” If you have a hard copy of the “real” journalism Mt. Parnassus, you can find this story in the August 4, 2014 version delivered to Kentucky. Online, the story carries an August 3, 2014 date and, if you …
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