Blogging since 1998. By David Wertheimer

Category: Internet (Page 26 of 40)

Hypocrisy

Google Zooms In Too Close for Some in the New York Times. The article, discussing privacy issues surrounding Google Street View, uses as its human-interest lead a woman named Mary Kalin-Casey, who a few days earlier discussed Street View with BoingBoing and complained that anonymous people on the Internet could see her living room and her cat.

In agreeing to the Times interview, Kalin-Casey, who is ostensibly concerned about her privacy, posed for a photograph… in her living room… holding her cat.

Wordie

Wordie. Wordie! It’s not Werty but hey.

A few summers after I got my nickname I attended camp with a kid who spent the entire seven weeks asking me to spell stuff. I figured he knew I was sixth grade spelling bee champ or something. It wasn’t until the second to last day of camp that I realized he thought my nickname was “Wordy” and that he assumed I was a word genius (or something).

The perils of automation

Google News, Aug. 8We, the devout users of Google, are supposed to believe that Google News’ superior algorithms and programming make the use of editors obsolete. But Google News has an incredibly varied—and loose—list of news sources that includes the Gothamist newblogs among them.

Gothamist, of course, is a blog of summary and feature, not news, at least not often. More importantly, its editors are not afraid of a good joke or bit of snark. Which is usually good for Gothamist and its readers.

But really: is it good for Google News to select as its lead election story a post from Bostonist with the headline, “Connecticut Primary Almost Exciting; Lieberman Still Boring?”

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