Here’s a Google suggested walk from London to Paris: 246 miles in 2 days 12 hours. Well, maybe five days if you are in good shape but need to sleep. Check out the part in the middle! Leave a comment with your favorite walk!
I like this image from Seth Godin’s post on The Long Tail and the Dip.
HealthMap is an interesting Web site that displays a “global disease alert map” based on information extracted from a variety of text sources on the Web, including news, WHO and NGOs. HealthMap was developed as a research project by Clark Freifeld and John Brownstein of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program, part of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.
You may have seen this symbol 
next to links on various pages of the Web. It denotes that the link (which is usually placed before the symbol) is an external link.
If you’ve ever wanted to differentiate internal links from external links on your blog, there is a fairly simple way of doing it, and all it requires is a few lines of text added to your stylesheet.
In this post, we’ll show you how to do it.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story on students using BitTorrent to share scanned copies of textbooks. The article, Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers, starts off
The Washington Posts Security Fix blog has a post, Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud!, reporting on allegations that spammers are starting to use Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) servers. It only makes sense — you can sign up easily without committing to a contract of any length, the price is low, and the IP addresses are drawn from a wide range, making it hard to block them all.
Here’s something I never expected: splogs as a political issue. Actually, it’s allegations of political blogs being splogs, or rather allegations of accusing political blogs of being a splogs in order to get Google to block them. The NYT Bits blog has a post, Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers, that describes the controversy.
Last month,
Go Daddy decided to try and hit us for $180 to reregister two domains that we had let lapse for several weeks. Cybersquatting at its best if you ask me, considering the usual price for registering a dot com domain at Go Daddy is $9.99.
According to the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, cybersquatting, on a basic level, is using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit.
Last week I covered Structure 08 for Read Write Web:
Working the Clouds: Report from Structure 08
“In a recent report, Gartner predicted that early adopters will forgo capital expenditures, and instead purchase 40% of IT infrastructure as a service by 2011. Alistair Croll, senior analyst at Bitcurrent, and MC for the first Structure 08 conference in San Francisco, sees things differently. According to Croll it will be a lot sooner.”
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Wired has an interesting article, The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete, that discusses the data driven revolution that computers and the Web have unleashed. Science used to rely on developing models to explain and organize the world and make predictions. Now much of that can be done by correlating large amounts of data. It applies equally well to other disciplines (e.g., Linguistics) as well as businesses (think Google).
The cover story of the July 2008 CACM (v51, n7) is Web Science by Jim Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, and Danny Weitzner. The article argues for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Web as an entity in its own right. It’s great that this article is freely available on the web. Ironically, figuring out what URL to use to link to it was a bit tricky and the pages are rendered as png images to protect the IP.
Company’s site invites public to contribute, wiki-style, with rules to guard credibility
When I was young, encyclopedias were the Web. I was aware that there was a hierarchy of encyclopedias, with the World Book serving the low end for young students and the Encyclopedia Britannica for those in high school and beyond. The Britannica was so intellectual that they even uses funny letters in their name: Encyclopædia Britannica. My family had a mid-range Encyclopedia set (Colliers) and I spent many hours lost in browsing through it.
Google can do more than just help you search websites. So if you can use it to save time, why not? Here are six shortcuts (aka
Advanced Operators) to start you off:
If you want to know weather conditions for a particular city, type the word weather before the city name or zip code. For instance:
Weather San Francisco, or Weather Melbourne
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This month’s Vanity Fair has a feature article that lays out “an oral history of the Internet” in How the Web Was Won, part of a series of oral histories.
A post on the Feedburner blog, Into the wild: AdSense for feeds, annunced that Google will start integrating AdSense ads into feeds next week.
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