Since Saturday morning you can help search for Steve Fossett through Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Click here to get to the start page and then press the "Work on HITs" button to start reviewing satellite images.
As with the search for Jim Gray, this is only possible because of the collaboration of several organizations.
Congrats to DeWitt for launching the OpenSearch.org community website
If done well a graph representation of data can reveal a lot of information about the structure of the data. And with particular care graphs can even become art.
Sala has achieved this by building a very nice graph representation applet for web pages. If you visit this posting you’ll see some really cool graph representations. The boing-boing one is particularly telling.
There are now about 1700 webpage graphs posted on flickr, tagged with websitesasgraphs. Go graph your own webpage here. Source code is also available.
Below is the graph for the All Thing Distributed home page. On the left are the postings, on the right the sidebar with categories, archives, etc.
Today the Senate hearings on Net Neutrality took place. The details of the testimonies are online.
I believe that everyone who has a vested interest in seeing business and service innovation continue to flourish on the internet should be concerned about the proposal for access-tiering introduced by the last-mile broadband vendors.
I suggest you read some of the testimonies to get an idea what was discussed at the hearing. I believe that today Larry Lessig's testimony was particularly eloquent, building upon Powell's "Internet Freedoms" policy combined with the end-to-end argument. If there is one testimony you could read it should be his.
