August 21, 2003
Wired about aggregators

Couldn't resist linking to this article: Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload

[Via JD on MX]

Posted by jarle at 02:07 AM
Counter Googeling

Good article at Trendwatching.com:

Companies 'googling' their customers to offer them personalized services.

I'll come right out and say it: I am using Google in that way already, and have been for a while. Mostly because I am a curious fscker. Now I have a good reason to quote if anyone wonders why I am reading up on them ;-)

Seriously though, I can see the benefit in this. So to my next hotel: I like seaside views, English breakfasts and comfy beds. *g*

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Posted by jarle at 01:31 AM
Copyright - what right?

This slashdot posting was really interesting. its brief look at the history of copyright, and the misuse of it. Slashdot: Copyright

The scary stuff for me, living outside the US, is how the process of weakening the established fair use is also affecting Europe and european countries.

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Posted by jarle at 01:20 AM