Seems kind of interesting, to me anyhow!
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago)
People bitching about ex-CIA people there etc
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago)
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago)
― fran (brother loves dub), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)
But go to http://www.google-watch.org for the real thing.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago)
― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)
― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)
― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)
― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago)
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago)
they're up to no good funding circuses and children's hospital's, oh no!
― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago)
GOOGLE IS AN ANCIENT LIZARDMEN WORD FOR 'HUMANS TASTE GOOD!'
― de latebloomer's 2015 youth crew revival (latebloomer), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago)
The model of the 'crusading journalist' was built on a newspaper business that charged a fee for its product and therefore was somewhat beholden to serving the tastes and needs of its patrons, not simply kow-towing to its advertisers. That was a quirk of the business model for mass circulation newspapers and nothing inherent in the nature of journalism.
The 'crusading journalist' tradition later carried over to radio and television because of a second quirk - the ruling that the airwaves were public property and therefore could be regulated by the government, followed by the rapid expansion of commercial radio during the New Deal era, when federal regulation tended to emphasize the common weal. Reagan overturned that model pretty completely.
Google would be swimming against a strong current if it didn't accept the right of advertisers to supress any content they found objectionable.
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago)
by breaking it down to the level of specific stories (or specific blogposts) so that the operator actually gets less money for every person who reads about lebanon rather than home improvement, the google model (at least as presented in that article) provides a new set of incentives and disincentives for what content to put online.
i actually think it's a simple-minded and flawed model (surely people who want to know what's going on in lebanon are a demographically desirable audience to some advertiser) and one that will probably either evolve or be superseded. it just caught my eye.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago)
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago)
Most news publications still use the the reader-pays-for-a-copy business model, or, in some cases, have only recently edged away from it with a certain timidity. Broadcast, cable or internet news providers mainly use the advertiser-pays-for-viewers model and thus are less able to withstand advertiser pressure.
― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago)
I like google watch watch!
― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 23:22 (eighteen years ago)
― Forgot My Pencil (Forgot My Pencil), Thursday, 3 August 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago)
― A Poodle Under One Arm, A Two Foot Salami Under The Other (g-kit), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago)
"Almost every time Google Watch is mentioned on any forum or blog, an anonymous elf comes along and adds a link to Mr. Beasley's watch-watch site"
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:00 (eighteen years ago)
Google Buys Drone Company Titan Aerospace
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:52 (eleven years ago)
Oooo! I wonder if they're hiring!
Oh wait, they're in New Mexico. Screw that, then.
― Stephen King's Threaderstarter (kingfish), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)
drone pilots drinking smoothies
― schlump, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 05:28 (eleven years ago)
Google S.E.C. Filing Says It Wants Ads In Your Thermostat and Car
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 May 2014 00:27 (eleven years ago)