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And I’m pretty sure he gets it all wrong:
Google: As Open and Neutral as It Wants to Be

I hope to return to blogging more regularly now that the college-hunting process is over for my high-school senior son—our family’s first time through what is an amazingly-daunting (and time-consuming) process—and I still have a backlog of other [...]

First of all, whoever decided that naming anything with less than 3 or 4 characters had a serious lack of foresight in terms of database searching. If it wasn’t for the popularity of C/C++, finding resources on learning it would be nigh impossible. Well, slightly easier than R, one of the most commonly used letters [...]

Alright, a lot of people have Goolge-fever. I use the search and email, but only through IMAP. I have used google code (and have lots of complaints about it). Otherwise, it is “just there” for me (that’s not a bad thing!). However, I am excited about several new features that Google is rolling out (. [...]

If you live under a rock, an overview of knols. This is not what I had in mind when I said I was no longer going to be linking to Wikipedia. A Wikipedia replacement/substitute may be an alright initiative (if it does well, so be it, if not, that is ok too), but it still [...]

I often link to Wikipedia. No, it is not authoritative. Encyclopedias have not for a long time, probably at least the past 75 years, been an authoritative reference on the state of academic knowledge. They have instead transformed into a general reference, a starting point for further reference and research. There was a time, of [...]

Sorry, I had a minor DNS issue due to a bug in a piece of my router that was telling the upstream dns server to not send wildcard dns requests (*.econtech.selfip.org) on to me to deal with after an IP change. If you are using Google Reader (and possibly similar services) to read this, you [...]