Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searche. When you type a query into Google it will suggest the most popular completions to the given prefix. There are some remarkable contrasts, Slate found, between "dumb" searches and "smart" ones. People who start their search "how 2" are more likely to search "how 2 get pregnant" or "how 2 grow weed. " People who start their search "how one might" are more likely to search "how one might discover a new piece of music" or "how one might account for the rise of andrew jackson in 1828.
" The most fascinating contrast is between "is it wrong to…" vs. "is it ethical to. " "Is it wrong to…" generated the following suggestions: Whereas "Is it ethical to" generated the following: Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. Free Premium Blogger Templates - dantearaujo.net. Roller: free and open source Java blog software. Main | Next page » Apache Roller 5.0.1 security fix release now available 06.24.2012 | 0 Comments The Apache Roller project has announced the availability of a new Apache Roller 5.0.1 release. This new release is identical to Apache Roller 5.0 but with the addition of two security fixes: 1) fix for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and 2) fix for Cross-Site Resource Forgery (XRSF) vulnerabilities.
All Roller sites are urged to upgrade to Roller 5.0.1 as soon as possible. The two security vulnerabilities have been reported to the [Full Disclosure mailing-list at grok.org.uk| and the [Bugtraq list at SecurityFocus.com| Apache Roller 5.0 released 05.25.2011 | 0 Comments Here's some more happy Roller news. The major new feature in Roller 5.0 is Media Blogging, a set of enhancements to Roller's file upload and management capabilities.
Welcome Shelan Perera 05.23.2011 | 0 Comments Here's some happy news. Blogger ethics: proper attribution > accountability - Ars Tec. A few years ago, Tim O'Reilly kicked off a bit of a firestorm when he suggested that there should be a blogger code of conduct and offered some helpful suggestions for items that might appear in that code. Not everyone agreed that blogging needed anything of the sort, and each of the proposed items attracted its own bit of criticism. The lack of agreement on a formal code (or even on whether such a thing should exist), however, doesn't necessarily mean that bloggers haven't adopted some form of informal behavioral standards. A survey of over 1,000 bloggers performed by researchers from Singapore suggests that informal codes do exist, despite the fact that bloggers themselves don't see accountability as a major goal.
The primary hurdle for the authors was simply obtaining a survey population. Blogs tend to get abandoned with disturbing regularity, so the authors relied on blog aggregators to limit themselves to a blogger population with regular output. Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog)