This is an example why I will never try to make money off my website and blog by running ads. I saw this on Freethought Blogs website.


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Anyone who uses Facebook has been occasionally or continuously annoyed by the ranking system Facebook uses to decide which posts to display to you. "Top News" posts are completely random. Often they are the ones most commented on, but some have no comments ( Read more... )

Imagine a conference so big, so sprawling, that navigating it requires you to draw multiple decision trees and redraw them on the fly as needed. Why? The conference is spread out across a convention center the size of four city blocks, several neighborhood hotels, as well as some hotels a few miles away. Just walking from one room in the conference ( Read more... )

• 20:57 Have spent my weekday going out quota for the week on Monday's Semantic Web meetup; hence, could not go to Ignition / Bizspark today. #
• 22:27 I'm sure drooling at startups at Ignition would have been fun, but Semantic Web meetup gave me better ideas for my own applications. #

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• 17:49 A guy at the Semantic Web meetup says he works for something like "wikipedia for data". "It's like Flickr for datasets," he clarified. :) #
• 18:08 Another puzzling thing OHd at the Semantic Web meetup: "instead of programming to the API, you now model to the API". What does that mean? #

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The Social Media Camp was modeled after BarCamp (or perhaps I should say it was a kind of a BarCamp). The campers occupied Cafe Thistle, which was partitioned into two areas; plus there was a lounge where a smaller group of people were aving discussions ( Read more... )