Sunday, May 18, 2003

Why The Laws of Thought Are, After All, the Laws of (Evolutionary) Logic, by William D. Casebeer (A review of The Evolution of Reason: Logic as a Branch of Biology, by William S. Cooper (Cambridge University Press, 2001).) 5:08:55 PM    comment []

Network Outages Create Chaos for Panicked Students: On brink of exam period, computer problems interrupt e-mail and internet access. By Nathaniel A. Smith, The Harvard Crimson. 5:08:51 PM    comment []

Doc is having an important conversation. In Writing by the rules, he says: Tim Jarrett summarizes what I said two days ago about why Google search results are often thickened with blogs, and why the situtation could quickly be corrected by full exposure of print journal archives on the Web: . . . Dave agrees: . . . If you want a better picture of what's going on, and why the Full Archive Exposure (let's call it FAE) solution is so simple, look in two places: 1) The Breaking News story list in the left column of Technorati; and 2) your local Library. Right now Technorati's Breaking News lists 20 top stories. The sources: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, BBC. Washington Post, Washington Times, ABC News, Fox News, Time Magazine. This is where blogs are pointing. There isn't one blog among them (though often there is). Most or all of those newspaper stories (the majority on that list) are going to dissappear after seven or thirty days, relegated to for-pay archives. I am told, though I don't know (maybe some of you can tell me) that even the current and exposed archives of many print news stories are out-of-bounds for search engine bots, so they never get crawled and hence don't show up in Google and other search engine listings. Recent stories from newspapers papers do seem curiously absent from Google listings. (Let's gang up and do some research.) . . . It is vastly dumb, given this situation, for the newspapers to continue hiding their stories and archives from search engines. The cost in lost authority far outweighs the benefits in selling those archives for $2.95 (or whatever) per story. . . . [The Doc Searls Weblog] This hits it -- though I kind of like bloggers out-clouting the Big Media, I'd be awfully happy for this point to get across. Though, to be honest, there will be Unintended Consequences that we haven't yet foreseen, and some of they may be Not So Good. 10:35:49 AM    comment []

Can 'Reality TV' Be Translated to Greek?. DIARY Can `Reality TV' Be Translated to Greek?. By Hubert B. Herring. [New York Times: Business] 10:30:41 AM    comment []

A change of heart in the Saudi media. The fall of Baghdad and the bombings in Riyadh have made the Arab News think seriously about the enemy within, says the paper's editor. [Salon.com] 10:30:00 AM    comment []

One Big Geometry Exam. Compared with the complex and often inscrutable nature of the students for whom it was built, Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, Calif., is, well, kid stuff. By Zev Borow. [New York Times: Education] 10:20:44 AM    comment []