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Year of the blog Q&A

By alex | Published: 1/7/2005
[Sue Wuetcher, from the campus Reporter asked me to participate in a Q&A about blogging and such. I suspect (hope) that she will end up cutting this down so that it is more concise and makes more sense, but here it is in the uncut version.] 1) 2004 has been called “The Year of the […]
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Google Blog

By alex | Published: 12/16/2004
“Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.” – Agent Smith, The Matrix Within hours of Google’s announcement that they were beginning an initiative to digitize the largest libraries in the US, most of the web had heard about it. Of course they had, Google is pretty much central to the […]
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Alien Radio

By alex | Published: 12/15/2004
I gave an oral exam in my graduate theory seminar yesterday, which included a very simple question (that most of the class, shockingly, got wrong) asking students to figure out how many bits were required to represent a particular piece of information. At lunch today, I asked my wife (the law student) what the answer […]
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Google Suggest

By alex | Published: 12/10/2004
Mmmm. More beta goodness: Google Suggest a – amazon (170,000,000 results) al – altavista (11,000,000 results) ale – alexander the great (15,200,000) alex – alexander the great (15,200,000) alex – alex jones (3,690,000) alex h – alex haley (425,000) alex ha – alex haley (425,000) alex hal – alex haley (425,000) alex hala – alex […]
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