Google turns out the lights  —  On Saturday, October 20, 2007, San Francisco will go black for one hour (8pm-9pm PST) as it participates in “Lights Out San Francisco”.  In addition, the citizens of SF are encouraged to install at least one compact fluorexcent light bulb to help reduce their energy consumption.

Source:   Geeked Info
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The culture of infallibility inhibits newspaper innovation  —  Yesterday at the closing panel of the Online News Association conference, Anil Dash and Josh Cohn of Google talked about the newspaper industry’s failure to embrace change.  —  Anil made this astute observation, “Journalism is the culture of infallibility.”

Source:   howardowens.com: media blog
Author:   Howard Owens
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Powerset Testing Search Results At Mechanical Turk  —  A reader noticed that stealth search engine Powerset is using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to gauge user reactions to search results.  —  See the screen shot (click for larger view) - users are shown a query and a number of results …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
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Google.  Who’s looking at you?  —  It wants to know everything about you.  It wants to be your best friend — or your Big Brother.  Are your secrets safe with Google?  —  John Arlidge  —  In the blissed-out California sunshine, the glistening glass-and-steel curves of the Googleplex seem …

Source:   Times of London
Link:   http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news…