Canary in Coal Mine VS. Boy Who Cried Wolf
Back in September I posted that I thought it was somewhat sketchy for Google to recommend there photo search when a person searched for Istockphoto and got flamed for it.
A New Year’s Wish List
There were a lot of significant advances in 2006 in the digital realm. Google prospered, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and the Internet overtook newspapers in the hierarchy of information consumption. What does this year hold in store for the technological landscape?
Saddam Searches Flood Search Engines
As news of Saddam Hussein’s execution made its way around the web (rather quickly), people flocked to the search engines looking for video, images, and any other pertinent information about the hanging.
Options, Bugs, Phones – Time For Macworld
The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs’ keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe.
The Demise Of The Scoop
Being first to a story when there were only three to six outlets in competition for a scoop meant a lot for the media of yore. Now that nearly anyone can be a bastion of insight and analysis in the time it takes to register a domain name and configure some blog software settings, the euphoria of Extra! Extra! Read All About It seems downright quaint in comparison.
UFO Sightings To Orbit The Web
France’s national space agency, Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, will place information about some 6,000 reports of UFO activity online in early 2007.
Java and Open Source
In November, Sun Microsystems moved to “open source” status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language.
AOL Poll: Heroes And Villains
Not many times in American politics or history do you have a person on both a hero’s list and a villain’s list. In a new poll from the Associated Press and America Online News President George W. Bush is top of the list for being both a hero and a villain in 2006.
Google Defends “Meaningless” Zeitgeist
When Google put out its year-end Zeitgeist, an account of the hottest searches in 2006, bloggers immediately felt the list’s creators were fudging it a little for decency’s sake. Google responded on its blog saying the list was edited to save us from the boredom of constants and givens.
Web Designers: Succeeding Beyond Online
The field of Web Design is one of the most rapidly growing areas in the world of commerce.