Midnight posty

[da_lj]

My brain is going a mile a minute, which is frustrating because it's well after midnight. I'm thinking about: work, upcoming visits (from a cousin, and hopefully to Ithaca), and random this-and-that

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[cypherpunk95]

Brad Templeton (UW, Clari.net, EFF, and a bunch of other stuff) has one I read now and again. http://ideas.4brad.com/ It's all just his own posts, though.

[da_lj]

Heh. Like I needed another cool feed to read. ...OHAI 4brad. Nicetameetcha.

I particularly liked PETA prize should start with eggs and dairy.

[thingo]

I really like the blog Ironic Sans. It's a bunch of creative stuff, including occasional clever ideas.

[da_lj]

Love, love, love his stuff.

[beartalon]

Insomnia sucks. I read this the first time at 4AM. I was not experiencing insomnia. Just after supper, I felt an incredible sleepiness, and went to bed at 7:30, waking up at 1AM, and staying awake until 4:30. Now I'm up again and working.

[da_lj]

Sigh. ANd here I am up and not sleepy at midnight. I was up at 6:30! I should be sleepy! *grump*

[ng_nighthawk]

Gmail is already looking at your mail and pretty accurately figuring out what is junk mail and what ads to show you. This seems like an easy extension of that. I hope Mr. Google reads your blog!

[da_lj]

Yes, they could do that.

Except that they probably don't want the perception that they are tilting your recommendations or auto-filters in order to sell you stuff. It would require some fairly firm "we're not evil" policies that intuitively seem very difficult to set up.

And that sort of "deep" knowledge probably would make people even more suspicious than they currently are. For example, I don't have the perception that they look at more than a certain thread in order to choose ads. (this may be incorrect, but it would be patently false if they were selling ads related to tag titles.)

Still. I wonder what it would look like if they *did*.