School RFID Plan Gets an F. A school superintendent thought it would be a good idea to tag students with chips embedded in name tags, make them mandatory, and then use them to track students’ locations in the building. How anyone thought this was a good, uncontroversial idea to try and slip under the radar is tough to understand. How anyone thought so without the benefit of a nice fat kickback is doubly confounding.
I’ve long loved Technorati,
but lately it has been confusing me. Typical problem: I use a favelet to do a search, but the results I get are far from what I would expect. Take for example a Technorati search for maps.google.com – an apropos search considering it was launched yesterday.
Well, the results I got just now for that search indicate that there are only 17 links from 11 sources – clearly incorrect. Furthermore, I have asked and otherwise verified, and there are many people who I know ping Technorati AND who posted about Google maps over 12 hours ago but who don’t appear in the results anywhere.
The confusing thing is that it’s a crapshoot. Sometimes – I’m not sure under which conditions – you get a partial list with a link to get a full list of results. Other times you get a long list of results the first time, with no such link. Yet other times you get very very short lists of results – but also with no prompt to get a more complete set of search results. And then when you do look at the results, there are multiple identical links listed, one after the other, and the count at the top doesn’t add up.
I really enjoy the service in theory, and love the direction they’re heading, and it’s obvious that there are some very smart folks over there who really care about the web. But I wonder if Technorati isn’t much more promise than delivery at this point, way more so than most people – commentators – seem to admit.
At Daring Fireball,
John Gruber has posted two great articles on the deficiencies of music subscription services, specifically Napster To Go: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding the ‘Napster To Go’ Subscription Service and the followup Subscription Small Print. Gruber also makes an important point that iTMS purchases don’t replace CD buying, which speaks to the theory that new media do NOT replace old media (and never have), they supplement or complement old media.
Check it out:
Google Maps. Not with Safari yet, but try it with Firefox. The results are quite stunning. Can Google redefine – through aesthetics as much as accuracy – online maps?
We’re going to get more details
out soon, but if you’re a blogger in Montreal I thought I should give advance notice to set aside the evening of March 19, a Saturday night, for the 5th Anniversary Party for YULBlog at Zeke’s Gallery. We’re pretty sure YULBlog’s First Wednesday is the longest-running regular weblogger gathering in the world, and we ARE sure we should celebrate that! Invitations and information will be coming from me, Patrick, Blork, and/or Chris very soon. Keep an eye on your inboxes, mailboxes, and the YULBlog site and all shall be revealed.
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