The World According To Google. An interesting review that addresses issues including e-commerce, privacy, page ranking and the fact that the company may be “the world’s largest operator of a distributed computer network.”
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Daily Archives: May 3, 2004
Interview With Data Mining Aggregator CEO
Excerpts from an AP interview with ChoicePoint Inc. (CPS) chairman Derek Smith. Continue Reading
News Aggregators Can Present Challenges to Bloggers
Will RSS Readers Clog the Web? Continue Reading
Usability Testing and the Design of a Live Reference Service
What words and where? Applying usability testing techniques to name a new live reference service, by Vicky Duncan and Darlene Fichter. Abstract: “A user-focused design approach was taken to develop a new ‘live reference’ service at the Health Sciences Library, University of Saskatchewan. The name of the service, the placement of the links, and the… Continue Reading
Report on U.S. Sponsored Net Filtering Program
“Unintended Risks and Consequences of Circumvention Technologies: The U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau’s (IBB) Anonymizer Service in Iran,” April 28, 2004. [Link] See also this related CNet article by Declan McCullagh. Continue Reading
Cmte. Request for Medicare Cost Data Denied
From the House Committee on Government Reform: “All 19 minority members of the Committee write Secretary Thompson to protest HHS’s obstruction of their investigation into the withholding of the [Medicare] cost data. The members officially expand their Seven Member request to include the communications between HHS and congressional leadership.” Letter to HHS, April 26, 2004… Continue Reading
