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 Sunday, February 23, 2003
started 2/23/2003; 8:32:34 AM - last post 2/25/2003; 3:51:02 AM
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Doc Searls - Sunday, February 23, 2003 
2/23/2003; 12:32:34 PM (reads: 4296, responses: 3)
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Back on the train, gang 
| | The kid and I are off to take the train back to Santa Barbara. See you later. |
Polblogging
| | Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy paper is required reading I neglected to mention yesterday. (I was in a hurry. I still am.) |
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Hamish MacEwan - Re: Sunday, February 23, 2003
2/25/2003; 7:35:05 AM (reads: 430, responses: 2)
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Sorry to chime in off topic, but I think, if it hasn't already been said, that Google has purchased Blogger for reasons akin to those for the creation of Answers.Google.com, but I suspect Blogger.(or Bloogle)Google.com will be in Labs.Google.com for some time.
These are not hasty people, there is lots of great stuff in the lab....
Maybe at blooger dot com you will be able to build a blog from what Vint Cerf called the "serendipitous encounters of search engines"
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Hamish MacEwan - Re: Sunday, February 23, 2003
2/25/2003; 7:40:56 AM (reads: 471, responses: 1)
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Answers.google.com invites humans to propose questions which a researcher, probably human, contracts to answer and delivers, or does not... any way, the detail is beyond me, but it was two human participants and the machine, and they brought different skills and abilities to the game.
Somebody had the question, and somebody both enjoyed, from the comments I read, finding the answer and was financially rewarded.
I always expected Google to harvest the answers, keyed against the questions, for general web inquiries.
I'm probably not explaining myself well, but I simply think Google has broader interests than Blogger, it's going to be about metadata or blogdex like selection... using the inside knowlege of bloggers and the creators of blogger dot com who probably know them best.
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Hamish MacEwan - Re: Sunday, February 23, 2003
2/25/2003; 7:51:02 AM (reads: 493, responses: 0)
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I think Answers dot google dot com appealed to three great human desires, to help, to be admired (for being clever enough to find the answer), and to be given whuffie sufficient to your trouble or, "Ask a question. Set your price. Get your answer."
Oh, it it preyed on the greatest, Curiousity ... killed the ...
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