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The blogging Player of the Week

After four weeks of excuses masquerading as blogs on “related topics”, the first blogging Player of the Week can be announced. The choice will not be a popular one among the blogging elite, but then this exercise is about recognition, not affirmation. First a recap: the original idea behind the Amablogoblogo is to recognise special […]

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Steve Fossett, Amazon.com and some extra cash for you

Steve Fossett is a millionaire adventurer who disappeared with his plane, somewhere over the Nevada desert. You want to help find him? Head over to Amazon.com. The online books-and-everything-else seller has a rather nifty, but not well-known, service. It is called Amazon Mechanical Turk and its tagline is “Artificial artificial intelligence”. Basically, it is “a […]

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The size of the internet

This weekend, one of my friends asked me how big the internet is. So just to make sure that I know these facts, I did some research that I would like to share with you. Everyone is in agreement that the internet is humongous. According to Netcraft, a company based in Bath, England, in September […]

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Can the UN control online privacy?

Every time you use your credit card online, the number is parsed through six countries. Many of those countries have no policies at all when it comes to privacy in general, and certainly no policies when it comes to privacy in the internet sphere. Google’s privacy chief, Peter Fleisher, addressed the United Nations Educational, Scientific […]

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The reason why bloggers blog

According to Technorati, an internet search engine for searching blogs, the company is currently tracking 104,6-million blogs and more than 250-million pieces of tagged social media. There are certainly blogs that are written by employees of companies trying to put a good spin on their organisation and products or services they offer. There are political […]