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news - data, information or vector?
Thursday, June 28th, 2007is about a, at a time b, at location c, comes from source d, relates to other information e1, is read by f. a+(b+)>d/e->f.
And what about information? An amount of bits according to Claude Shannon. A difference that makes a difference, says Gregory Bateson.
In short: how would we want our favourite news [...]
a short history of connections
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Sometimes history can help to find perspectives. A history of the web could be written as a history of overloading and overriding connections. First there were 3 computers linked. This net was overridden with letters and words. Much later html replaced text with adresses. Now social networks override links with persons, actions, places.
europe´s google
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007google follows a technology driven approach of massive deployment, engineering skills and algorithms and an american culture of an abundance of resources.