Archive for the 'Learning' Category

Privacy on the read-write web

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Do you have a weblog? Like to journal online? Share pictures or bookmarks online with friends and family, for example, using Flickr or Del.icio.us?

What kind of privacy can you possibly retain? Is it possible to keep your activities anonymous?

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Quiz bowls - finding questions and equipment.

Saturday, September 11th, 2004

We’re getting ready for the Granite State Challenge here in New Hampshire, USA.  Here is some research I did for buzzer systems and practice questions.

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In Searching We Trust

Wednesday, March 17th, 2004

This is full of good common sense. Or maybe it’s not as common as it should be? “‘With an estimated 200 million searches logged daily, Google, the most popular Internet search engine, ‘has a near-religious quality in the minds of many users,’ said Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle who taught a graduate seminar on Google this semester. ‘A few years ago, you would have talked to a trusted friend about arthritis or where to send your kids to college or where to go on vacation. Now we turn to Google.’” [NY Times]