BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not one of those piling on the sack cloth and ashes over today’s ruling directing Google to turn YouTube user records over to Viacom. Was the ruling overreaching? Oh, probably without a doubt, but it also justifies the worries we’ve had about Google’s storage of our user information. In fact, it was […]
A friend sent me a link to a Slate article, How Smart is the Octopus?, discussing how to measure the intelligence of a creature from a completely different world. So much of our intelligence measuring is based on tools, but tools are, themselves, nothing more than devices helping a species survive in a hostile environment. How […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Adobe has decided to partner with Yahoo and Google, specifically, in order to enable search engine access to Flash contents. In other words, web builders that use bad web practices have been rewarded, and can continue to use Flash to completely build their sites, without regard for accessibility or an open web. The […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s pile-ons, and then there’s pile-ons. Just when the people who owned Techmeme tried to generate a controlled burst of activity related to Loren Feldman, Shel Israel, and some stupid puppet (actually covered by the Guardian as news, to the ever lasting embarrassment of the British), the real story was going […]
Another American business sold overseas. InBev has purchased Anheuser-Busch. The news isn’t surprising, and is not going to make the people of St. Louis very happy. The announcement in St. Louis Today sought to reassure folks about jobs, but it’s inevitable that jobs are going to be cut. More importantly, A-B has been an important and generous […]