I hope I don’t sound hypcritical because I do own two iPods and admire many things about the product itself, the iTunes service, innovation and style. Seriously, Apple is awesome in so many ways; it deserves a lot of credit for revolutionizing the music and broader entertainment industry.… Read the rest
Back Up Your Computer’s Hard Drive Now!
My six-week old IBM Thinkpad laptop died last week while writing an e-mail — the screen turned black then started flashing. On my end, there were no drops, no spills and no extreme temperature exposures. My advanced tech colleagues at work have tried endlessly to save my data.… Read the rest
American Idol Ad-Free
I studied a trend of blog mentions to predict the winner of American Idol, and I picked Taylor Hicks. Behold, Taylor Hicks is the winner. OK…so it was 50/50 probability.
I didn’t view the program yet, but it’s waiting for me on my TiVo should I desire (which I do).… Read the rest
American Idol: And The Winner Is…
Don’t know for sure yet, but TechWeb reports on a very nifty research invention to predict the American Idol winner:
… Read the restKatharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks will face the last round of competition in the fifth "American Idol" tonight (Tuesday, May 23), with the winner announced Wednesday.
The R&D Side Of Blog Measurement
My Datamining colleague Matt Hurst, from Nielsen BuzzMetrics’ R&D team, shares with us a nice roundup of events and scientific papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, held yesterday at the WWW Conference in Edinburgh.… Read the rest