tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-136745152011-12-14T18:33:54.615-08:00Cultural notes on digital communication and technologyChristopher Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13552470575966300812noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13674515.post-1137967857588304632006-01-22T14:00:00.000-08:002006-01-22T14:10:57.590-08:00

zeit·geist Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt Function: noun Etymology: German, from Zeit (time) + Geist (spirit) Date: 1884 Meaning: the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.In some cases, Google wants to share information about what its users are looking for.Google Zeitgeist lets the world know what its Googling. A quick glance through counties' stats illustrate

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It's been a while since my last post, but this topic grabbed me and prodded me back.A year or so ago I read a story about how Google was taking pictures of store fronts on the West Coast. The expected product has finally came out - it's been so long I had forgotten about it.The story from the Associated Press:Search Engines Going Far Beyond MapsBy ALLISON LINN, AP Business WriterSun Jan 15, 10:13

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A sad note from the Middle East, which makes me wonder if fighting will expand into Iran.By Christian OliverTEHRAN (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that the Holocaust was a myth, triggering a fresh wave of international condemnation.Last week Ahmadinejad first aired his doubts on the veracity of the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed by the Nazis. His comments drew

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If I had more than 24 hours in my day, I'd read: David Vise's The Google Story.This section from Chapter 26 appeared in the Nov. 14 Washington Post:Not since Gutenberg invented the modern printing press more than 500 years ago, making books and scientific tomes affordable and widely available to the masses, has any new invention empowered individuals or transformed access to information as

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With all the wires snaking underground, over ground, through the air and every other way possible, it's easy to become lost in this unseen but ever more important component of the infrastructure of our modern world. So the imaginative make maps and illustrations of what is out there.The site Visual Complexity illustrates this unknown worlds. I've added the link to the site on the collection of

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Frank Barnako reported in his MarketWatch Update that the New York Times has had "positive" results from it's subscription-based package of online content. This certainly pokes some holes in the theory that consumers will purchase something that has previously been free.On that note, I finally paid $20/year to update my Yahoo email address so I could use POP to sinc it with Microsoft Outlook.

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Leave it to MIT to create an educational visualization of on-campus wireless Internet use:Blanket wireless service is reason enough to celebrate on a campus where most of the 10,000 students own laptop computers and many work into the not-so-wee hours of the morning. IS&T and the MIT Museum are commemorating the achievement with an exhibition called "iSpots," which features three electronic

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Word for Word from ClickZ News:print this article e-mail a colleagueTargeted Wi-Fi: Micro-Local› › › ClickZ NewsBy Enid Burns October 21, 2005The Boston Globe has set up two Wi-Fi hotspots that let users access rich information about the immediate area -- and only about the immediate area.The "Pulse Points" tie into the newspaper's new "The Pulse of Boston" branding campaign launched two

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I've been reading a Foreign Affairs article on demands from outside the U.S. to transfer Internet Governace from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to a sort of International organization. I'll let author KENNETH NEIL CUKIER carefully balance the issues, but pull out one important tidbit:The database is the world's most important Rolodex. Yet due to a technical hiccup

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Here's a notable application from http://www.cnt.org/.The Center for Neighborhood Technology has successfully deployed a system to help find all the representatives for your address in Cook County. Type it in and click on "Find." It's that easy. Here's what the organization says about the project:Who Represents You? Discover Your Civic Footprint.Whether or not you vote or can name your state

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Columnist Phil Rosenthal put the Medill List Serve aberration in the Chicago Tribune today. As it closes out his column on an only slightly related topic, might he have added it in at the last moment?I'm still looking for the name of the unlucky CEO.This may be a unique situation in the journalism community. Numerous journalists have all received the same tip at roughly the same time. Who will

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"We just released “the Tower,” a new comical song, written by the Austin Lounge Lizards, about something that’s no laughing matter – media consolidation. We think that you will enjoy it and be moved to do something about the media….After you listen to the Tower, sign the petition asking the FCC to hold at least 10 public hearings before they go back to rewrite the media ownership rules. Let’s

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A search firm sent out this email today (contact information of the firm left out) to a career list serve for PR and Journalism alumni of Northwestern University."I am looking for a media consultant to develop a plan (similar to what Martha Stewart's spin-artists did), for a prominent Chicago CEO who is facing a federal tax evasion indictment later this week. We want to make sure that his clients

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Best Buy to Sell Wireless Broadband Internet Services Beginning October 30, 2005, Best Buy will offer Clearwire’s wireless broadband Internet service in select stores. Clearwire’s service allows subscribers to its service to quickly access the Internet with an easy-to-install modem. The service is currently available in Washington, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Texas, and Florida, and

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OK, I'll toot my own horn - I beat MarketWatch - though Bambi had a few more details. And she happens to be in San Fran where she has better access to the players. Anyway, read my post yesterday and then read this:Google FeevaCommentary: To build or to buy, that's a questionBy Bambi Francisco, MarketWatchLast Update: 12:01 AM ET Oct 6, 2005(Editor's note: Bambi Francisco's Net Sense column will

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I remember the first time I saw an advertisement moving across a sidewalk at night in front of a storefront. A sort of disco light covered with a filter worked much like the iconic Bat Symbol, but moved around the sidewalk instead of the night sky. Though my eyes had been pointed down, I didn't miss the store I walked passed.An applicable metaphor? Maybe.Google has a great opportunity in

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The buzz is on Google these days. These come from the Baller Herbst Daily Email:Free Wi-Fi has a catch: slow speed -- Google's proposal (300kbps) is "hardly the kind of capacity needed for many high-bandwidth services and applications."http://beta.news.com.com/2060-11199_3-0.htmlGoogle's Wi-Fi offering is "all about selling ads"; also: "Google says it will lease its WiFi network on a wholesale

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I've tried to log on to my Hotmail email account a few times today, to no avail. My question then is, how many others have experienced this?

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Forget Geography 101. Google Earth has opened up discussion forums for its dynamic map.Users bookmark a location to ask questions, point out historic significance and mark individual hangouts. One historic marker in southern England takes a viewer to Castle Hill, which stands above the Channel Tunnel terminal, according to user JonM from Ashford, England."Apart from the iron age fort and the 12th

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The article...Benfield thinks online maps will increasingly become the interface for the Web. "In building its map application, Google made use of a new way of programming Web applications," said Benfield. "It is known as AJAX. Also, Google created an API, allowing users to implement maps within their own applications.Almost overnight, this has made MapQuest almost irrelevant." Those are strong

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"Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing

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This tech reporter for Business 2.0 had a story anticipating this move by Google last month, and has followed up by linking to this new news - in his words:Google asks for GoogleNet bidsFollowing up on my GoogleNet piece, Google is now seeking bids for a nationwide optical network. IP Media Monitor has details here. IP Democracy reports…The vendors who have seen Google’s fiber network RFP say

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IP Media Monitor reports that Google is reviewing bids it solicited from tech vendors to build a national optical DWDM network. The article said that the costs of the fiber is less than $100 million - not including dark fiber - and can be launched in a couple of months.Could this search engine company bring a highspeed Internet connection to your door?Maybe. But as others are asking, what about

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As a newbie to ongoing discussions on communication and technology, I feel it important to note other blogs as I add them to my list of links at the right side of this blog. Today, I'm adding Doc Searls to the list, and adding his Sept. 16 blog entry:Beyond deliveryIt's interesting to think about the container transport concepts behind "getting" as a synonym for understanding. When you "get" what

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New Lines of CommunicationSome Want to Scrap the Old Infrastructure To Create a High-Tech, Wireless RegionBy Jonathan KrimWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, September 16, 2005; Page D01As crews rush to restore basic telephone and Internet services to areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, some executives, academics and analysts are urging a more ambitious approach: Make New Orleans and the

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According to Red Nova:"The number of teenagers using the Internet has grown 24 percent in the past four years and 87 percent of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online.""In another example of mainstream media cozying up to blogging, Tribune Media Services said it will distribute content from the Huffington Post Web log this fall (www.huffingtonpost.com).A feature, about 750 words, will be

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With the captive audience of a Medill Alumni list serve, I posted a question about a major difference in images shown on American and Spanish-language network television:I was struck yesterday evening when flipping though channels on cable TV in Evanston. A Spanish-language news channel was showing unflattering images of bodies floating down the streets of the city. Some floated face up with

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Jon Van of the Chicago Tribune found an interesting study to include today in his article about eBay buying Skype, as the U.S. company works increase its challenge to Google, Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft.Skype offers VoIP, or Voice over Internet Protocol. In simple terms, this means a telephone call on the Internet. In more complex terms, it is creating a whole new communications system.While

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I have repeatedly tried to call a friend since Katrina moved through New Orleans, but I've never gotten through. I know she wasn't even in the state when the hurricane hit, but her cell phone has a New Orleans area code. Cell phone area codes do a play an important role in how a call is directed across the nation. First, it goes toward a sort of central switch of that area code, and then goes out

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A quick note: I just added Rocket Boom to the link list on the right. The casual news source's video coverage of Katrina brought the blog to my attention. Thought I'd share.

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The news shows pictures of mass flooding, destruction and helicopters rescuing stranded people from rooftops. It gives those that feel abandon a voice to cry out for the help that didn't immediately come.In reading and listing to various news broadcasts on the aftermath of Katrina, politicians and reporters suggest it will be months before things become normal again. But I don't see that

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This morning on NBC Matt Laurer told the story of a doctor who was being sued for telling a women she was obese. Specifically, after repeatedly ignored attempts of politely explaining to her the dangers of obesity, and recommending she start a diet program, the doctor took a tougher stance. He told her that generally obese women are less attractive - citing statistics.After Matt grilled the man

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Washington Post tech writer Robert MacMillian asked a pertinent question recently: When will we stop using the word "digital" to describe cameras, when the type that uses pixels instead of film already outsold its predecessor in 2003. Good question. Come to think of it, I just put my "film" camera up for sale on eBay, and am looking forward to buying a new camera.This runs parallel to today's NYT

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Smart Growth and the InternetAug 11, 2005 By John M. EgerCongested roads and highways, long commutes, smog, pollution and loss of productivity are often cited for America's economic woes and the gradual decline in that elusive "quality of life" aspect of living in some of our finest cities.Some believe the decline of our cities started in 1939 at the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. The

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Returning to the Earth has found a whole new meaning in a new trend of PDAs.Washington Post Staff Writer Mike Musgrove wrote in Sunday's edition about the devise created by San Francisco writer Merlin Mann, and the article put a smile on my face."The hipster PDA, or personal digital assistant, is a handheld that does not have Bluetooth, does not surf the Web and does not play Pac-Man. But the

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By a 62% to 38% vote, the citizens of Lafayette approved the Lafayette Fiber to the Home Project.Mayor Joey Durel: "This is a huge moment for Lafayette and America. Our citizens have sent a powerful message -- Americans want their local governments to do what's necessary to be 21st Century cities second to none."Utilities Director Terry Huval: "Today, we did what our predecessors did 109 years

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Blogs offered a "personal connection to the fear, shock, and pain experienced by Londoners," said Forrester Research (FORR) analyst Charlene Li may, in a report from the Korean Press Foundation, mentioned on the Online Journalism Review Web site and then cited in Frank Barnako of MarketWatch daily email."Up until 2000, newspapers regarded Internet media as a 'pet,' and would not mind much even if

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My parents never purchased my brother and I video gaming machines while growing up. The computer did run a few, but these new-fangled electronic toys never seemed to garner respect.I remember running into a nervous father years ago in downtown Chicago over lunch. His son's sole interest - video games - worried him about his son's future. He understood them to only be a waste of time. But I

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ABC News Online mapped the London Bombing sites with Google Earth. (Thanks Dave Winer)ABC's "article" allows for an automatic fly-through of the sequence of events using the play button.

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This just may make me click my heals in joy. Press your mouse button to visit "Don't Click It". But be careful. Consider your self warned.

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The New York Times added another online newspaper best practice to its content by writing about The News & Record in Greensboro, N.C.There readers voice their frustration with any article."Get me rewrite" will in effect be a menu option, a way for unhappy readers to go online and offer their own versions of articles they do not like. Their hope is to convert the paper, through its Web site into a

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Thomas Bleha's article "Down to the Wire" in May/June issue of Foreign Affairs calls out the canary in the coal mine awaiting the U.S. in technical innovation."Once a leader in Internet innovation, the United States has fallen far behind Japan and other Asian states in deploying broadband and the latest mobile-phone technology. This lag will cost it dearly. By outdoing the United States, Japan

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Technology can change our perspective on information. Take for instance this map of the U.S. that illustrates the voting results of our the 2004 Presidential election.This cartogram comes as more accurate reading of the voting results, typically in the form of a choropleth.To see details of the construction process, click here.Thanks to (© by sara i fabrikant) for doing the work.

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The New York Times' focus on the cross platform technology abilities of The Journal-World in Lawrence comes after NPR covered the paper/online/podcasting/cable information source a few months ago.But the content speaks for itself:"I don't think of us as being in the newspaper business," said Mr. Simons, the editor and publisher of The Journal-World and the chairman of the World Company, the

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In his May presentation at the 2005 Community Development, Innovation and & Technology Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Andrew Cohill (http://www.designnince.com/) runs the numbers of broadband, illuminating where America is aiming:“Although the FCC continues to define broadband as access speeds of 200 kilobits or more on both directions, this bar is set too low for future growth and economic

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In his paper “Community Networking as Radical Practice,” (posted on the Journal of Community Informatics – see link on right), Garth Graham touches on two components of the change that arises from the increased networking capacity of humans in both their immediate geographic community and online community: He suggest an increased awareness of the facets of self and how these facets are discussed:

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I've finally heard about a new publication: The Journal of Community Informatics. I'm excited reading about it because it satifies some of the frustrations I'm run across in trying to gather scattered thoughts on related topics. Some of the papers are a bit heady, but others make good reading.http://www.ci-journal.net/index.phpThe Journal about its self:Community Informatics (CI) is the study and

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CHICAGO - Saturday a friend invited me to the top deck of a downtown health club, where the probably a hundred or so sun bathers surrounded a three lane pool. Constant drink orders kept the waitstaff running around - and their deliveries loosened everyone's tongues.So we talked real estate, and a nearby fellow called his agent. A bikini-clad woman next to us needed a better agent, and he put the

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After the Wall Street Journal pays attention, will others follow suit?The technology Journal Report of May 23, 2005, read, "How Old Media Can Survive in a New World." It discussed solutions to the quandary faced by traditional media outlets: What to do about declining readership and profits. One section suggested newspapers should allow some reporters to craft blogs and readers to add comments

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High Concept and High Touch"To survive in this (Conceptual) age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing to earn a living and ask themselves three questions:Can someone overseas do it cheaper?Can a computer do it faster?Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?If your answer to question 1 or 2 is yes, or if your answer to question 3 is no, you're in deep trouble

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Time and time again, my 87-year-old grandfather finds email and the Internet amazing.Though he studiously reads email every night, one thing always gets away. Even from this former college professor and hobbyist in pendulum clock repair.After his friends send him attachments, they follow up in person to ask if he received them."What attachments?" my grandfather replies.

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