In 2006 I became a huge fan of open source projects. It’s online karma. The more you give away to the world - the more the world brings back to you. Wordpress is probably my favorite example. There are a lot of plugins and themes available for the platform, most of which have been “donated” to the community at large by people who have created them.
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In a recent lecture Google’s Larry Page was recently disclosed Google’s [super secret] plans for building a massive AI system:
“We have some people at Google (who) are really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale,” Page said to a packed Hilton ballroom of scientists. “It’s not as far off as people think.”
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I’m a pretty big fan of Mybloglog and I really like using it, but I see some significant problems that may end up spelling its demise if the MBL/Yahoo crew don’t make the necessary changes soon enough.
1. Security issues - Shoemoney has covered two of them and I’m sure more exist. One is a flaw that lets anyone hijack your “top 5 links” to enter in their own spammy keyword-laced links. Another is a way that uses a MyBlogLog cookie exploit to make people seem like they author websites (when they in reality do not). To me, the entire cookie-based system has some worrying implications beyond this, but I won’t get into that here.
Today I changed the RSS feed for this website from summary to full-text. Why did I switch to full text? After a few months of reading other people’s feeds I realized that I much prefer sites that offer a full feed rather than a summary and that I still visit the site in question often enough (so they aren’t necessarily losing traffic) - mostly to read comments or view the feed in its original format.
There are pros and cons of going full-feed vs. summary. I agree with John Chow that it’s usually a better way to go (see #7) - but there are some caveats - I’ll cover the pros and cons in a future post.
Do you make the same common mistakes when naming college courses as most other loser professors? Do you want to bait more students with catchy course names? The secret of college course naming conventions are finally revealed thanks to the headline formulas of Neil and Brian Clark. Now you can write great class names and land even more tenure like a pro.
Here is a list of UF honors college courses that could be sexier if only they were written with class-bait in mind:
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