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arnie Grossblatt

Google's Gatekeepers - 0 views

  • “Right now, we’re trusting Google because it’s good, but of course, we run the risk that the day will come when Google goes bad,” Wu told me. In his view, that day might come when Google allowed its automated Web crawlers, or search bots, to be used for law-enforcement and national-security purposes. “Under pressure to fight terrorism or to pacify repressive governments, Google could track everything we’ve searched for, everything we’re writing on gmail, everything we’re writing on Google docs, to figure out who we are and what we do,” he said. “It would make the Internet a much scarier place for free expression.” The question of free speech online isn’t just about what a company like Google lets us read or see; it’s also about what it does with what we write, search and view.
  • Google, which refused to discuss its data-purging policies on the record, has raised the suspicion of advocacy groups like Privacy International. Google announced in September that it would anonymize all the I.P. addresses on its server logs after nine months. Until that time, however, it will continue to store a wealth of personal information about our search results and viewing habits — in part to improve its targeted advertising and therefore its profits. As Wu suggests, it would be a catastrophe for privacy and free speech if this information fell into the wrong hands.
  • If your whole game is to increase market share, it’s hard to do good, and to gather data in ways that don’t raise privacy concerns or that might help repressive governments to block controversial content.”
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    Can Google continue to "Not be evil" and dominate the global market for search and user-generated content (YouTube, Blogger). Discussed how Google balances among free speech and privacy, the censorship demands of governments and its financial interests.
Julie Schorfheide

Google's Trademark Tussle - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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    Google suffered a setback in a legal battle over how it auctions search terms. How would eventual defeat affect the Web search market?.
courtney reyers

New book published: Drupal 5 Views Recipes | drupal.org - 0 views

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    New book published: Drupal 5 Views Recipes News and announcements · Drupal 5.x mroswell - June 16, 2009 - 14:38 I'm looking at a fresh new copy of Drupal 5 Views Recipes. I wrote it, and I'm thrilled to see it in print. I have a mix of Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 sites out there. If you've got any Drupal 5 sites, consider this book. Appendices I'll start by mentioning the appendices, since I think that's one of the most information-rich sections of the book. (The rest of the book consists of 94 step-by-step recipes.) Appendix A - List of all default views available for Drupal 5 Appendix B - Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 field formatters, by module Appendix C - Comprehensive list of Drupal 5 style plugins, by module Appendix D - Views 1 hooks Appendix E - Modules included in recipe ingredients Appendix F - Additional resources and modules Appendix G - Selected noteworthy patches to Views, sorted by topic Appendix E can serve as an index to the recipes, and also includes a column indicating which modules are available for Drupal 6. Appendix G unlocks a whole host of functionality not available in Views 1 by default. Recipes Interesting content includes: - How to overcome the case of the missing term in taxonomy views - Views arguments - Proximity search (Find every trailhead within 6 miles of a Senior Center, for instance) - Views Bulk Operations (such as mass updates of taxonomy) - Views Fusion, and the Views Fusion Node Reference patch - Using !$ and Ctrl-U in command line editing - Detailed steps for upgrading the Date and Calendar modules from 5.x-1.x to 5.x-2.x - Three options for setting up cron - Grouped views with the Views theme wizard - Overriding themes_view_view - Table of debugging techniques, including the author's favorites - Browser plugin for searching the Contributions API page - A quick way to format SQL queries for easier reading
arnie Grossblatt

YouTube - Copyright, Content and Class Action Lawsuits: A Debate on the Google Book Sea... - 0 views

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    Interesting video of the Google Book Search settlemnt.
arnie Grossblatt

Beware online "filter bubbles": Eli Pariser on TED.com - 0 views

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    We need "embedded ethics" in search algorithms.
anonymous

Jeremy Mauger: Google Book Search - The Decision Not to Digitize - 0 views

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    Michael Zimmer's blog discusses the Google Book Search. This particular post is authored by SOIS PhD student Jeremy Mauger. (For more information, make sure to check out the related links at the end of the article.)
arnie Grossblatt

For Google, a Risky Ploy by Turning Its Back on China - 1 views

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    Google says no to censored search results in China, and China responds.  "Don't be evil" has costs.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Public Policy Blog: Opening access to books means opportunities for everyone -- ... - 0 views

  • We still strongly believe that copying for the sake of indexing is a fair use that is encouraged by existing copyright law precedents. Fair use is critical to the way web search and book search work and is already well established.
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    Response to criticism of the Google Book Settlement by Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
arnie Grossblatt

Google Unveils New Tool To Dig for Public Data - 0 views

  • The E-Government Act of 2002 required government agencies to make information more accessible electronically, but users have complained that many agencies do not organize their Web sites so they can be easily indexed by search engines
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    Google has been working with the Federal government on facilitating access to government data - this article talks about the first fruits of that effort.
Julie Schorfheide

How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Deep into this story is a comment about how publishers and authors in the future might alter content of paragraphs, chapter titles, etc. in order to move books up in a Google search, thus ensuring more visitors to the online book.
arnie Grossblatt

Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

  • In the short run, the Google Book Search settlement will unquestionably bring about greater access to books collected by major research libraries over the years. But it is very worrisome that this agreement, which was negotiated in secret by Google and a few lawyers working for the Authors Guild and AAP (who will, by the way, get up to $45.5 million in fees for their work on the settlement—more than all of the authors combined!), will create two complementary monopolies with exclusive rights over a research corpus of this magnitude. Monopolies are prone to engage in many abuses. The Book Search agreement is not really a settlement of a dispute over whether scanning books to index them is fair use. It is a major restructuring of the book industry’s future without meaningful government oversight. The market for digitized orphan books could be competitive, but will not be if this settlement is approved as is.
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    Nice short piece on some of the downside of the Google Books settlement.
arnie Grossblatt

Is Google destroying the planet? | The Noisy Channel - 0 views

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    What's the carbon footprint of a Google search?
arnie Grossblatt

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.
arnie Grossblatt

Does Google facilitate e-book piracy? - 1 views

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    Should Google filter search results to eliminate e-book pirate sites?
William Bell

How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books | ZDNet - 0 views

shared by William Bell on 24 Jun 12 - No Cached
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    Update: This post is part of a series. If you find this topic interesting, I recommend you read the two follow-ups as well: Apple has built its iBooks platform on the back of an open standard. With last week's introduction of iBooks 2.0 and the free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X, Apple is deliberately locking out that popular open standard.
arnie Grossblatt

Official Google Blog: Being bad to your customers is bad for business - 0 views

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    Google adjusts an algorithm to to combat SEO gaming.  No longer true (at least on Google) that "All publicity is good publicity"
arnie Grossblatt

Concurring Opinions - 0 views

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    Interesting comment on the Rosen NYT article Google's Gatekeepers.
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