More analysis

More proof it's just nanoseconds after the Big Bang on this blog thing.

Kevin Burton just came out with Newsmonster. He explains:

NewsMonster is an advanced weblog manager, reputation system, micropayment economy, and semantic web application. NewsMonster allows the user to keep track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover new weblogs, important articles, and other compelling relationships.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

11:04:37 AM    

Context Analysis

The application is definitely not new.  Marketers and intelligence analysts have long used the study of discussion of terms in the written and electronic media to see where the public and opinion leaders were going.  Besides, aren't the tools from Daypop, Metalinker, Blogdex, Technorati and Google already providing us such information?

Harbingery, cont'd.

Ready to have your blogs data mined? An excerpt:

Kleinberg suggests that the method could be applied to weblogs to track new social trends. For example, identifying word bursts in the hundreds of thousands of personal diaries now on the web could help advertisers quickly spot an emerging craze.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

11:00:14 AM    

More on filtering...

Washington Post article on efforts by the Center for Democracy and Technology to force the Pennsylvania State AG to disclose how he is attacking ISP's in order to block pornographic sites.  The article also provides the following links

Center for Democracy & Technology

Pennsylvania Attorney General

Harvard study to be released today on filtering problem

8:55:13 AM    

Viewpoints on PATRIOT II

Comments by Dan Gilmor concerning proposals found in the "leaked" draft of the next version of the PATRIOT act indicate great cause for alarm.  This analysis by Anita Ramasastry is worth the read.

7:02:44 AM    

Filtering has problems

Net blocking threatens legitimate sites. Government efforts to block offensive Web sites are technically problematic and legally worrisome, a new study shows. By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com]

6:53:24 AM    

Internet manipulated like any other medium.

The Net effect. 'Closed regimes' can use the Internet to enhance their power. [Christian Science Monitor | Sci/Tech]

6:51:46 AM