Sunday, March 6, 2011

Google.

Do you think they'll pay attention if their name is in the title?

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Here is a good resource for a quick overview of the sish'.

I wonder if people recognize that this is like Time Warner reodering their channels (or maybe better - netflix changing how it finds the movies you like), but in a much more significnt way because it spans a mass of digital content that's slowly beginning to elcipse all other sources of information in our lives. 

I'm like anyone - the less spam I have to sort through in my search results the better, but the implications behind such a move are giant.  Enormous.

Say what's up to capitalism for giving control to the few; say thanks for the internet as a way in for the rest of us.  But the internet has to remain ours, where the hackers and programmers who invent and dissect are better than those paid to stop them, or else I think we fail as a collective.  I think it's a sign of the times when WikiLeaks can lead a revolution from behind the curtain; when Charlie Sheen can break a world record that didn't exist 6 years ago; when the internet can be awarded a nobel prize for actually changing peoples lives (here's looking at you, Egypt).  But we can't loose sight of the importance of this phenomenon or they will take it from us, just by changing some code.

P.S.

Almost 200 Subscribers for Mahalo Math!!  Props to usesefulness.  I'm glad to be contributing in a positive way to the growth of the internet.

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