John Wilkin of the University of Michigan libraries was badly misquoted in an AP story on the digitization projects at the University of Michigan. On his blog, he uses that glitch (calling the Brewster Kahle's issues with Google "polemical," but...
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WWW 2008: Refereed Papers: Paper Title: PageRank for Product Image Search Authors: * Yushi Jing(Georgia Institute of Technology and Google, Inc.) * Shumeet Baluja(Google Inc.) Abstract: In this paper, we cast the image-ranking problem into the task of identifying "authority"...
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Doug K explains: ... The real question is how to arrive at a health-care system that doesn't punish the sick. The answer is technically simple but politically difficult. It starts with acknowledging that health care isn't a market. More accurately,...
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I am visiting YouTube and Google this week. Yesterday I hung out at YouTube. It turns out there are NOT little people dancing behind the screen! It's some sort of digital magic, instead! Oddly, on "take your daughter/son/other to work...
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NEJM: Tectonic Shifts in the Health Information Economy Kenneth D. Mandl, M.D., M.P.H., and Isaac S. Kohane, M.D., Ph.D. In a recent shift in the health information landscape, large corporations are seeking an integral and transformative role in the management...
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Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: April 18, 2008, 4:42 pm How Big Is Google? Hereâs Another Measure By Saul Hansell Google Rory Cellan-Jones, a blogger for the BBC, calculates an interesting statistic from Googleâs earnings release Thursday....
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Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: ... The “Starting Point” idea, as Ms. Decker explained it, implies two breaks from Yahoo’s past. First, instead of spreading the peanut butter of its efforts across hundreds of sites, it will...
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This week I am in the Bay Area. I gave a talk at UC Davis yesterday and will be visiting some interesting people in Silicon Valley the rest of the week. While driving on I-80 and approaching Berkeley, I turned...
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Google's riches rely on ads, algorithms, and worldwide confusion | The Register: Why did millions of money-making post-holiday clicks suddenly disappear from the world's largest search engine? It depends on who you ask. Some people blame a soft economy, insisting...
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Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-For-Everybody: I keep thinking about what is missing in the DIY economy, who gets left out. Is it the same people who traditionally have labor that is considered worthless? DIY youth, social participation, and interactivity are all good, but...
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Google execs reveal double standards | Australian IT: Google execs reveal double standards Anthony Klan | April 12, 2008 THEY spend their days devising technology that eats away at privacy but when it comes to disclosing their own personal information...
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