Bits Debate: Responding to Readers on Filtering
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Tim Wu and Rick Cotton respond to questions from readers in the latest installment of our week-long debate on copyright, piracy, and digital filtering.
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Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz had the chance to pose a question to representatives of the major search engines which has been on the minds of many within the industry; &#8220;how do the engines feel about pay-per-post services on blogs, where advertisers can buy links and product reviews?&#8221; The responses, as Rand reports, were surprising: Yahoo&#8217;s Tim Converse [...]
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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A new open-source search engine lets users vote on results.
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What happens if, instead of a pipeline for your content needs, your ISP instead acts as a filter?
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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Letters: Going deeper on the question of security and operating systems.
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Can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the worldwide search engine market?
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Analysis Fragmentation and US indifference
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Rethinking privacy in an immodest age.
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Readers opine on freeing technology, the value of BitTorrent's new family member, and the plight of the not-so-modern man.
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As Ed Finkler points out there's a new article posted (written by him) on the C7Y site (from php|architect) talking about his Inspekt library - an introduction to the filtering library showing how to help make your applications safer.   Inspekt is a library for PHP4 and PHP5 that aims to make safe input handing easier, and unsafe actions more difficult. Inspekt establishes a new development approach by wrapping input within "cage" objects, and requiring the developer to use validation and filtering methods to test and manipulate the input data. This article provides a brief introduction to Inspekt and its capabilities.   The article covers all of the basics - what the library can do for you, how it integrates into your application and how it helps to protect you from potential problems with the data in your superglobals ($_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, etc).
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They need help Comment Ashlee, I read you piece (NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories) over the weekend and man did you hit a chord with me. I sweat this stuff, Iâm accused quite often of being a Microsoft shill and, as you point out, there is actually a cottage industry that has cropped up making that accusation to keep me from saying anything negative about OSS (open source software) or Apple. Since Iâve been doing the analyst thing for well over a decade, I think most journalists know I answer questions as honestly as I can and, while I do make mistakes, they are honest ones.â¦
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There is an interesting post on OnLamp.com that mentions the search for a good wiki system. Read the post to find out why the author thinks that the wiki world "needs the kind of vision that will make the product more accessible, more polished, less prone to abandonment or neglect...", and the several comments that follow.
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Backdoor drafts, security moms and up-armoring
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The arguments between search marketers and search engines about what constitutes a paid link, and whether it should matter, is a complex and emotional subject. Let's try to put it in perspective.