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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) - "Dave, stop.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008) -

Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial “ brain.

Google Is Failing More. Paul points it out as a failed dishwasher search.

Google Is Failing More

Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried. I've been writing a lot about so-called 'content farms' in recent months - companies like Demand Media and Answers.com which create thousands of pieces of content per day and are making a big impact on the Web.

Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried

Both of those two companies are now firmly inside the top 20 Web properties in the U.S., on a par with the likes of Apple and AOL. Big media, blogs and Google are all beginning to take notice. Chris Ahearn, President of Media at Thomson Reuters, recently published an article on how journalism can survive in the Internet age. Beyond content lists. The other day, Gary Shapiro, the guy who runs the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, dropped by and left a comment here.

Beyond content lists

There were a few problems: 1. My commenting system caught his comment in moderation, so people didn’t see it posted until I took it out of moderation right now. 2. The tale of 20 likes. I care about news.

The tale of 20 likes

It’s why I love talking with Gabe Rivera, the guy who makes TechMeme and a bunch of similar sites, like I did in Paris France at the recent LeWeb Conference. I told him that TechMeme has grown cold for me, which is why I wanted a new system — one where humans bring me the news instead of algorithms. Conceptual Trends and Current Topics. The internet is vast.

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. Is it worth spending time on creating tags and categories? Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests - Ars Techn. Google is improving its service aimed at providing websites with social networking features by making it easier for users with shared interests to connect with one another.

Google aims to "connect" users with shared interests - Ars Techn

The company has announced a number of new features for its Google Friend Connect that center on collecting and utilizing information about a site users' interests. The new features start off with a several ways to poll users for information about their particular interests. From your Friend Connect account, you can create a poll to ask your users site-relevant questions about what they are into.

Where is the interest graph? The other day I was talking with someone who works at Facebook. Just 'd like to follow the list. Federate or Aggregate? Inventor and tech philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New York Times article about Facebook Connect.

Federate or Aggregate?

And just like that, he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big question facing the social web depends on the direction it needs to take. The Problems With Friends Lists. I’m trimming a few of my friends in Facebook.

The Problems With Friends Lists

Not a ton, but a few folks who are wonderful for wanting to follow me, but who I haven’t really interacted with in well over a year. (Quick note: none of the people in the picture to the left were being trimmed. I just took a snap of where I was in the list.) Pick a Steve « StickyFigure. December 11, 2009 by Steve Woodruff I’ve been at this digital social networking thing for 3 1/2 years or so now, and it’s been a great (and educational) journey!

Pick a Steve « StickyFigure

But there is one question that keeps pecking away at my forehead, and maybe you can help me with it. In fact, ONLY you can help me with it, because it has to do with you. Which Steve Woodruff do you want to follow? Let me explain. All of these personas and infostreams meet on Twitter – plus photos, banter, occasional spoofs, and whatever else comes to mind.

Dynamic Visualization of Social Networking Will Accelerate Learn. ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes. Twitter.com/nickbiltonAtul Arora’s Twitter stream shows a constant flow of breaking technology news links. When I finish writing this blog post, I will Tweet it. I will copy this link, go to my Twitter account and spend a minute writing an abbreviated (yet hopefully catchy) description of this piece. And I’ll follow the same actions on Facebook and other social networks. Only 27% of tweets contain value, says new study. Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated. Toward user generated organization... The missing link to democratization. While the development of content creation, sharing and discussion sites has radically transformed the practice of Web users, it has not led to the democratization of access to this content.

Search engines and major portals still guide and direct users – rather than Web users themselves. Social bookmarking sites and other voting systems do not resolve this issue. By aggregating individual views rather than extracting specificities, they produce the same kind of results as the search engines. Web editors community. You would probably have guessed from a previous post that Pearltrees aim is to fill a gap of web democratization : the edition of the web by and for the users of the web. Pearltrees wants to build the participative community of web editors. Why such a community?