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http://www.billkatz.com [Bill Katz | Carving out my niche in webspace with a spoon] If you listen to Google tech heads about what they're doing with their uber-computer, you'll hear how they are harvesting real-world knowledge through analysis of web documents. Because there's so much stuff out there, they can be choosy about which sentences they'll extract knowledge from -- what is the reputation of the source, how easily a particular sentence is parsed, how likely will it give a nugget of the author's "truth", etc.

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http://www.billkatz.com [Billkatz.com] AI: The Power of the Masses | Bill Katz: Over the past few months, I've been happily looking at early drafts of Agile Web Development with Rails, the first book on Ruby on Rails by Dave Thomas (author of Programming Ruby and The Pragmatic Programmer) and David Heinemeier Hansson, who we should just call the Rails dude. Some of the chapters were contributed by other members of the Rails community, including Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz.

Hyperorg.com[Hyperorg.com] Joho the Blog: Controlled and suggested vocabularies: Are tags ...: Steve Papa at Endeca at the PCForum open discussion a few days ago pointed to eBay as an example: There are economic reasons to describe your items for sale using the most popular language. E.g., call it a "notebook," not a "laptop." Likewise, where there are economic or other reasons for people to use the popular tags, some folksonomies will dominate.

Jang.com.pkhttp://www.jang.com.pk [Jang.com.pk] Dialogue, NOS, The News International: • Global carbon emission falls just short of its manageable level of 3 billion metric tons per year. From an astronomical 6 billion metric tons of carbon emissions that the world produced every year two decades ago, the current annual emission is only a fraction higher than what global ecology can handle, 4.1 billion metric tons.

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