Microsofts new search engine Bing is now live, two days ahead of schedule, available for anyone to use. The world has already been taking the latest search engine for a test drive to see the successor to Live Search. via Bing Goes Live, Some Bloggers Shocked to Find Porn – PC World.
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A graph that shows the relationship between time the average person in a given country spends eating and that country’s obesity rate (as measured by the percentage of the national population with a body mass index higher than 30).
Obesity and the Fastness of Food – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com.
OneWebDay is an Earth Day for the internet. The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value this year, online participation in democracy, focus attention on local internet concerns connectivity, censorship, individual skills, and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet. So, think of OneWebDay as an environmental movement for the Internet ecosystem. It’s a platform for people to educate and activate others about issues that are important for the Internet’s future.
Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, said:
“OneWebDay reminds us that the net really is a democratizing medium, that everyone gets a chance to participate. If you want, you can stick your neck out and speak truth to power.” Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, added: ““OneWebDay is about ‘one web’ . . . Let’s celebrate, and let’s constantly work to make more, better, cleaner, stronger, deeper interoperability across the planet.”
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Bill Gates once derided open source advocates with the worst epithet a capitalist can muster. These folks, he said, were a “new modern-day sort of communists,” a malevolent force bent on destroying the monopolistic incentive that helps support the American dream. Gates was wrong: Open source zealots are more likely to be libertarians than commie pinkos. Yet there is some truth to his allegation. The frantic global rush to connect everyone to everyone, all the time, is quietly giving rise to a revised version of socialism.
Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide. Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism—and not just Wikipedia but wikiness at large. Ward Cunningham, who invented the first collaborative Web page in 1994, tracks nearly 150 wiki engines today, each powering myriad sites. Wetpaint, launched just three years ago, hosts more than 1 million communal efforts. Widespread adoption of the share-friendly Creative Commons alternative copyright license and the rise of ubiquitous file-sharing are two more steps in this shift. Mushrooming collaborative sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, the Hype Machine, and Twine have added weight to this great upheaval. Nearly every day another startup proudly heralds a new way to harness community action. These developments suggest a steady move toward a sort of socialism uniquely tuned for a networked world.
Were not talking about your grandfathers socialism. In fact, there is a long list of past movements this new socialism is not. It is not class warfare. It is not anti-American; indeed, digital socialism may be the newest American innovation. While old-school socialism was an arm of the state, digital socialism is socialism without the state. This new brand of socialism currently operates in the realm of culture and economics, rather than government—for now.
via The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online .
Congress moved a full step closer to making it less hazardous for millions of Americans to keep using their credit cards. The Senate voted 90 to 5 Tuesday in favor of a reform that would prohibit credit card issuers from such unfair tactics as tripling interest rates overnight or passing out cards to clueless teenagers.
All customers would have to be notified 45 days in advance of any rate increase, and young people (under 21 in the Senate bill, 18 in the House version) would need an adult’s signature or proof that they have a way of repaying any new debt before getting a new card.
Of the 39 evaluations made public this month, 10 were outstanding, 28 were satisfactory, and one was needs to improve. None were substantial noncompliance. Evaluations are available from links on http://www.occ.treas.gov/cra/may09.htm.
via OCC News: OCC Releases CRA Evaluations For 39 National Banks.
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