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World Wide Whiteboard
Before there were search engines, there were directories. The biggest and best-known was Yahoo. On the first graphical browser (Mosaic), it looked like this: The directory idea made sense because the Web is laid out like the directory in your computer. There is a “domain” with a “location” or a “site,” containing something after the Continue reading
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Blogging all over the place
People are asking me why I blog so little these days. Fact is, I blog as much as ever. Just not all here. For example, there’s Linux Journal. My latest there is Privacy is Personal. A good one, I think. Then there’s the ProjectVRM blog. The best recent post there is If your voice comes Continue reading
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Digging Hart Island, New York’s Million-Corpse Potter’s Field
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson Visitors to New York’s Orchard Beach (at the top of the photo above) probably don’t know that the low wooded island offshore will, at the current rate, contain a million buried human bodies, if it doesn’t already. The site is Hart Continue reading
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2013_05_19 link pile
Data The Man Who Turned Off Cookies In Firefox Doesn’t Care If It Hurts Advertisers Dynamic pricing vs./+ savvy consumers Mozilla stalls on privacy patch: ‘needs more work’ A shortage of privacy engineers, by Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh, both of CMU Big Data makes the movies Firms Brace for New European Data Privacy Continue reading