As I have mentioned here before, one of the most interesting new directions in the future of search is personalization, where a search utility customizes the results to fit your individual needs. The more personalized, however, the more personal information that needs to be provided by the searcher. This article examines the tradeoffs involved.
Personalize your news search
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Posted in Useful Web Sites
It’s a wrap
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Well, the show is finally over, but I still haven’t caught up on all my sleep. Check back here tomorrow, when I’ll start posting again……
Thanks for your patience!
Tom
Off Acting Somewhere
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Posted in Fun Stuff
Those of you who know me know that I produce a show here for the Dallas Bar Association called Bar None. We have a lot of fun, singing, dancing, and acting for charity. This year’s show is titled Suebiscuit, and it promises to be a lot of fun.
If you happen to be…
The Da Vinci notebooks, a page at a time
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Posted in RSS
The complete Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1,565 pages in all, are available in e-text from Project Gutenberg. If you have jumped on the RSS bandwagon, however, and you have a newsreader, you can read the notebooks, a page at a time. At this pace, if you start today you’ll finish sometime in
That was the month in search engines — May 2004
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Posted in Search Engines
Like clockwork, Chris Sherman posts important search engine milestones for May 2004.
Plexus on the loose
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Posted in Security
If you haven’t run Windows Update lately, you might want to think about doing so. A new worm called Plexus is exploiting weaknesses in the Windows operating system to enter your PC, harvest your e-mail addresses, and send out the virus under your name. The virus also spreads through the Kazaa file-sharing network.
Learn what that file does
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Posted in Software
If you have ever pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete and checked out the “Processes” that are running on your computer at the present moment, you may be baffled by the names you see. Some of them are easy to decipher: iexplore (Internet Explorer), AcroRd32.exe (Acrobat Reader), etc. But what about the others? What do those programs do, and…
A new forum for Office users
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Posted in Software
Although Microsoft has offered newsgroups for its products for some time, this appears to be a new (or revamped) offering: Microsoft Discussion Groups. Looks like a nifty way to get help on Microsoft Office products.
Cell Phones in Court
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Posted in Mobile Technology
The administrative branch of the federal judiciary is considering a ban on cell phones with cameras, to prevent surreptitious recording of court proceedings.
Although I’m not in federal court a lot, this news almost makes me wish I had waited for the new camera-less Treo 600.