| good morning! |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|09:17 am] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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| BBC: Blog reading explodes in America |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|11:01 am] |
Americans are becoming avid blog readers, with 32 million getting hooked in 2004, according to new research.
The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, showed that blog readership has shot up by 58% in the last year.
Some of this growth is attributable to political blogs written and read during the US presidential campaign.
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Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4145191.stm
Published: 2005/01/04 10:54:47 GMT
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Commentary: This is a very significant development from a system evolution point of view, because it clearly shows that the human race got its collective memory increased by a factor of at least 100. And this is just one of the first mass applications of the Internet age.
There's a number of intersting problems associated with rapid memory exapnsion, accessibility and the lack of structure being the more important ones. Both of them cannot be fixed by the traditional web search tools, because the information flow rate in the blogging (news feed) space exceeds capabilities of the existing indexing technologies. Meta-data creation has to become real-time in order to adequately represent the underlying raw data stream.
The semantics of the meta-data is not clear yet. For example, the LiveJournal's Memories mechanism lacks even rudimentary content management tools. The same goes for www.blogger.com and other services. The blogger though allows for e-mail logging, which in combination with, e.g. gmail profiling, can bring some structure to the ever-increasing accumulation of information. But it only works for one's personal account. Potentially, the unused "LJ interests" mechanism could be applied in combination with the Memories. For example, when I add something to the Memories the system could ask me which interest it fits into. If it doesn't then my interest system is not adequately expressed. Updating it would allow for a development of a DNA-like mechanism in the meme-space. I would even argue that that it is the equivalent of informational DNA. It's creation and update has to become automatic in order to scale with the flow.
But what about the information created by other people that I am not aware of? It is quite possible that due to its volume the blog-space has most of the answers to my questions. The only problem - I don't know I have those questions. Search engines cannot bring me answers to the question: Show me something very important I don't know. I believe to solve this problem on the data level is almost impossible due to the sheer volume of data. Therefore meta-data level creation/distribution/processing/exchange has to emerge. www.newsisfree.com is an early attempt at such system, but it's very weak right now.
Expect Google, and maybe Yahoo to enter this area some time this year.
Exciting times! |
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[Jan. 4th, 2005|12:07 pm] |
Для меня самое интересное в прошедших бурных дебатах по поводу украинских выборов это чувствительность России (на многих уровнях сознания) к потере статуса и к возможной потере контроля над нефте-газовой трубой
Потеря статуса очень знакомое по эмиграции явление. По моим наблюдениям труднее всего ее (потерю) воспринимают люди отождествляющие себя с внешней средой, самооценка которых определяется не внутренним, но внешним.
А труба никуда не денется. Она всем нужна. И России, и Украине, и Европе. Правда, нестабильность переходного процесса вполне ожидаема и может повлиять на состояние трубы. |
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[Jan. 4th, 2005|01:42 pm] |
getting dark
I cross the line
on her tanned skin
в полумраке
перехожу черту
ее загара |
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| patents |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|08:45 pm] |
US patent #15 issued.
a very broad one, especially claim number 15 :)) what a coincidence! |
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[Jan. 4th, 2005|09:16 pm] |
27 = 128 переводов хайку в ![[info]](http://lj.rossia.org/img/userinfo-lj.gif) russian_haiku@lj.
если бы мне кто-то в детстве сказал, что я в свободное время буду заниматься переводом японской (типа) поэзии с русского на английский, то меня бы это сильно удивило.
да и сейчас, вобщем-то, удивляет :) |
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| good night |
[Jan. 4th, 2005|11:14 pm] |
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.
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