"What Google Knows: Privacy and Internet Search Engines
Technology Review, the Semantic Web goes mainstream: Radar Networks is unveiling a new tool that provides a smarter way to find information and increase productivity. Images uploaded to photo-sharing websites like Flickr could find a surprising new application – they could help build accurate 3D models of the real world.
Finally, blogging is blessed on high
George W. Bush, proving he has spent more time surfing the web than any US president before him, broke new ground when he announced that a Presidential Medal of Freedom would go to a blogger...Richard Poynder interviews Peter Suber, widely regarded as the de facto leader of the open access movement, as part of the Basement Interviews with leaders of the open access movement:
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/10/basement-interviews-peter-suber.html
The Art Gallery of New South Wales To Open Sydney Nolan - A New Retrospective 
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992), Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringbark Creek, 1946.
JEFF JACOBY
If the Internet isn't at the root of newspapers' woes, what is? I nominate not the computer screen, but TV.
The Big Question: Why are Hollywood's scriptwriters going on strike, and does it matter?
What Google Knows: Privacy and Internet Search Engines Source: Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Mesopotamian scribes began 5000 years ago to catalogue their clay tablets with a reference system. So Google gets this idea... more»
On the Abuse of Talent in Media
by Mark Deuze
Something's afoot in the world of media work, and it regrettably makes sense in the context of the ongoing abuse of talent. It is affecting the lives of media workers across industries: in journalism, computer and video games, and the fields of film and TV production.
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Facebook?
Well, it seems that I was a tad ill-timed in declaring widespread praise for Facebook last week. Over the past few days, bloggers have been making a stink over Facebook employees defacing and deleting profiles at will on nothing more than a personal grudge. Of course, Valleywag has been all over this of late - but they aren't the only ones. This is nothing all that new, as I realized when they began taking a harsh line toward fake/tribute profiles, but it is also nothing new in a broader perspective....
99 Wolves:
“Head On” is an art installation of 99 life-sized wolves barreling in a continuous stream towards into a constructed glass wall. By Cai Guo-Qiang, this installation took place in center of Berlin, Germany in 2006. Click on the images to read more.
