…with people writing articles about themselves and then giving themselves 5 star ratings!
Rachel Marsden – a knol by Rachel Marsden
Makes you wonder if knol can scale quickly. After all Wikipedia had a lot of organization in place when it became mainstream. Google can’t do anything low key these days and therefore they need to move quickly to get a board and reviewers in place.
Maybe they need to buy Mahalo just to get their hands on the resources.
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Speechless…
Paris in August…
I moved to Paris in July 1996 and all I can remember is the heat. Day after day of sun baked streets and each evening the heat of the tarmac as it released the heat that it has stored during the day.
Paris is quieter during the summer; however it would be greater without all the English tourists!!!
For the opposite view… Le Blagueur à Paris: Like a bear in a cave, but with sun
This is what we’ll loose…
When we discuss what we’ll loose with the en of “fair use” we other think of research and another “important” stuff. What I fear deep down is that we’ll loose this…
Hectic City – The Kleptones blog & podcast » Blog Archiv » Festivalia!
Can you believe that they went to the trouble?
PhotoshopDisasters: The Sun: GotchaSeriously, what are they trying to prove? What do they gain by being this stupid?I just don’t get it.
How to scare your competitors…
The problem with YouTube…
You can’t be bothered writing a thousand words; after all you leave on holiday tonight. What can you do?
Make a video and paste it on YouTube! Quick and easy.Pity that within minutes of posting it, YouTube take it down.
http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/07/post-5.html
FAIL!
The perils of translation software…
AdFreak: Then we’ll grab a bite at 404 Not Found
Isn’t Darpa working on hand-held translation devices?When will the first war start because of a machine translation error?
Don’t rent a car here…
“Many locals pay substitutes to take driving tests for them; leaving many of the city’s new rich with big cars but only the most basic driving skills. Reverse parking their brand new Audi means summoning aid, usually from a passerby or, even better, a taxi driver.
“Welcome to China’s backwater – population five million | World news | guardian.co.uk