Google-Delicious Mashup

Oh, You Wanted "Awesome" Edition

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:59:59 -0700

Application Generation: Domain Specific Modeling: Choosing a Meta-metamodel

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:18:50 -0700

Application Generation: Domain Specific Modeling: Choosing a Meta-metamodel

Arda at the park with momy: Sent from mobile phone

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:04:36 -0700

Arda at the park with momy:

Sent from mobile phone

Arda at the park with dady: Sent from mobile phone

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:04:34 -0700

Arda at the park with dady:

Sent from mobile phone

Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:03:36 -0700

Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?

Acceptance Test Engineering Guide Beta 2 Now Available

J.D. Meier — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:37:38 -0700

stuart kent's blog : So what is a DSL anyway?

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:08:06 -0700

stuart kent's blog : So what is a DSL anyway?: “I prefer to think of a language having different dimensions, and to categorize a language we need to place it on each of the dimensions relative to other languages. This leads to a much more fluid…

The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:08:06 -0700

The Datacenter as a Computer: An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines

The iPhone Software Revolution

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:59:59 -0700

Five reasons why Microsoft's Hohm is more than just another Web 2.0 service

Mary Jo Foley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:59:10 -0700

IUpdateable from Eric Nelson : Three Men and a Whiteboard: Windows Azure

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:05:06 -0700

IUpdateable from Eric Nelson : Three Men and a Whiteboard: Windows Azure

Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: What Types of Defects Are Really Discovered in Code Reviews?

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:48:47 -0700

Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: What Types of Defects Are Really Discovered in Code Reviews?

The 7 Plagues of Software Testing

James Whittaker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:18:00 -0700

By James A. Whittaker

Yes I am going to be speaking at GTAC, thanks for asking. Frankly, I can't wait. I spoke at a Swiss testing conference and at the University of Zurich a couple years ago and I enjoyed the area and the people a lot. Excellent food, good beer and lots of cool European history and quaint back streets to wallow in. I hope to see you there.

Speaking of speaking, I just finished giving my first internal tech talk this past week. I spoke about the 7 Plagues of Software Testing and received a lot of input from Googlers about them. I'm encouraged enough that Googlers found them thought provoking that I've decided to broaden the conversation by posting them here as well. My plan at GTAC is to give you details on how Google is addressing these plagues in our own testing and hopefully you'll be willing to share yours as well. One plague per post lest this blog be quarantined ...

The Plague of Aimlessness

Lore. It’s more than just a cool word. It conjures up a sorcerous image in one’s mind of ancient spell books and learned wizards with arcane and perilously attained knowledge.

And it’s exactly what we lack in software testing. Testing lore? Are you kidding me? Where is it? Who’s bogarting it? Can I have a hit?

The software testing industry is infected with the plague of aimlessness. We lack lore; we lack a body of knowledge that is passed from wizard to apprentice and written down in spell books for the industrious to study. Our apprentices are without their masters. We must all reinvent the wheel in the privacy of our offices only to have other testers the world over reinvent it in theirs.

I suggest we stop this nonsense. Testing is far too aimless. We test because we must or our manager tells us to do so. We automate because we can or because we know how to, not because it is part of some specific and proven strategy and certainly not because our lore dictates it. Is there a plan or some documented wisdom that guides our testing or are we just banging on the keyboard hoping something will fail? Where are the testing spell books? Surely the perilously attained knowledge of our tester forebears is something that we can access in this age of readily available information?

When a hunter makes a kill, they remember the terrain and circumstances. They pass this knowledge on to their successors. Over time they understand the habits of their prey and the collective knowledge of many hunters makes the job of future hunters far easier. When you see this terrain, you can expect game to behave in this manner. Can we say the same of testing? How well do we learn from each other? Do our ‘eureka moments’ get codified so that future testers will not have to suffer the aimless thrashing that we suffered? Can we say when you see functionality like that, the best way to test it is like this?

The plague of aimlessness is widespread. The need for testing lore is acute. Nike tells us to ‘just do it’ but what applies to exercise is not good advice for software testing. The next time you find yourself ‘just doing’ testing, pause for a moment and ask yourself ‘what is my goal?’ and ‘is there a purpose to this test?’ If the answer doesn’t immediately come to mind, you’re aimless, just doing it, and relying on luck and the sheer force of effort to find your quarry.

Luck has no place in sorcery or hunting and it has no place in testing. Luck is a nice happenstance, but it cannot be our plan A. Watch for the plague of aimlessness. Document your successes, scrutinize your failures and make sure you pass on what you learn from this introspection to your colleagues.

Be their wizard. Build a testing spell book and share it with others on your team. Over time you’ll banish the plague of aimlessness.

ProjectPlan - unladen-swallow - Plans for optimizing Python - Google Code

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:25:47 -0700

ProjectPlan - unladen-swallow - Plans for optimizing Python - Google Code

Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:25:29 -0700

Moserware: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

Effective Windows PowerShell: The Free eBook - Windows Live

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:25:29 -0700

Effective Windows PowerShell: The Free eBook - Windows Live

I’m a PC and my shirt says so. He’s a Mac and yells in my face.

Bob Caswell — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:50:53 -0700

So I’m walking back to the office (work for Microsoft in Bellevue, WA) after meeting my wife for a nice dinner out. And I’m wearing a black t-shirt that says “I’M A PC” in white letters across my chest. I’m half way through crossing the street and a guy runs up to me, whips his arms around, points his two index fingers an inch away from my chest, and then yells loudly: “I’m a Mac!”

I give him a shoulder shrug and say, “cool, dude” while the rest of the crosswalk traffic is trying to ignore what just happened. We then walk our separate ways. My first thought was: “how bizarre.” But then that thought was quickly followed by my second thought, which was: “how normal.”

Sure, this is ancedotal and an isolated story. But for being completely random, I can’t think of a better story that characterizes my experience with how Mac fans express themselves as compared to PC fans. Some fans feel the need to yell their stance to your face (read any Apple fanboy blogs lately?) while others feel more comfortable simply wearing a shirt.

Now I’m wondering if I still want to wear this shirt from time to time. I think so. I wouldn’t want to pass up another chance at a Mac fan proving my point.

*Disclaimer* I work for Microsoft but do own certain Apple products, just how most all of my “Mac” friends own Microsoft products. I personally think the tech world is a better place because of both companies. But that’s too long a message to shout to someone’s face.

Cross-posted to the Microsoft Learning blog.

Bedenin sana ait! – benikoruyun.com

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:00:03 -0700

Dikkatimi çeken bu yazı ve adresin her ebeveynce okunup, özümsenmesi gerektiğine inanıyorum. Kızıma her daim vermeye özen gösterdiğim bu önemli mesajları çocuklarınıza sakin, telaşsız bir ses tonu ile iletirseniz, miniğiniz çok ciddi bir konu hakkında konuştuğunuzu anlayacaktır. Böylesi konulara değinmek için hiç bir zaman geç değildir. Lütfen ayrıntılı bilgi için benikoruyun.com‘u takibe alın.

İyi dokunma, kötü dokunma, gizli dokunma: Bedenin sana ait!

Öncelikle, kimlerin sana dokunabileceğine, öpebileceğine ve sarılabileceğine senin karar verme ve “hayır” deme hakkın olduğunu asla unutma!

Birisi sana uygunsuz biçimde dokunduğunda:

“Hayır” de ve o kişiye yaptığından hoşlanmadığını, dokunmasını istemediğini söyle.
Hızla o kişiden uzaklaş. Hoşlanmadığın bir şekilde sana dokunan kişiden kaç. Bir daha bu kişiyle asla yalnız kalma.
Yardım iste. Çığlık atabilirsin.
Kendine inan. Sen yanlış birşey yapmadın.

Birisi sana uygunsuz bir şekilde dokunursa, olan biteni güvendiğin birine anlat. Tehditlerin seni korkutmasına ve sessiz kalmana neden olmasına izin verme.

Birisi sana dokunur ve bunu aranızda sır olarak saklamanızı isterse kendine şu soruyu sor: “Bu sırrı saklamak beni rahatsız ediyor mu?” Seni rahatsız eden hiçbir sırrı saklama. Anne-babana, bir akrabana, öğretmenine, doktoruna ya da güvendiğin başka bir yetişkine durumu anlat. Anlattığın kişi sana inanmazsa, güvendiğin bir başka kişiyle konuş, birisi sana inanıp yardım edene kadar vazgeçme.

Tehdit veya tacizde bulunan kişiden uzak durmak için elinden geleni yap. Kendini rahatsız veya güvensiz hissetmene neden olacak biçimde sana dokunan kişi ileyalnız kalma.

İyi dokunma

Sevdiğin kişilerin sarılması ve öpmesi güzel birşeydir. Örneğin:
Uyandığında annenin sana sarılması ve öpmesi.
Babanın iyi geceler dilmek için sarılması ve öpmesi.
Anneanne ve büyükbabanın ziyarete geldiklerinde herkesin birbirini kucaklaması ve öpmesi.

Kötü dokunma

Kendini rahatsız hissetmene neden olan dokunmalar genellikle kötü dokunmalardır. Birisi sana istemediğin bir şekilde dokunduğunda bunu gizlemek zorunda değilsin. Kendinin kötü olduğunu düşünme. Kötü olan sen değil, sana kötü bir şekilde dokunan kişidir. Bedenin sana aittir. Sen istemiyorsan kimse sana dokunamamalıdır. Kötü dokunmanın ne olduğunu bilmek ister misin?

Canını acıtan dokunma kötü dokunmadır.
Dokunulmasını istemediğin halde sana dokunulursa bu kötü bir dokunmadır.
Dokunan kişi kendini rahatsız hissetmene neden oluyorsa, bu kötü bir dokunmadır.
Dokunma senin korkutuyor ve sinirlendiriyorsa, bu kötü bir dokunmadır.
Birisi seni kendisine dokunmaya zorluyorsa bu kötü bir dokunmadır.
Dokunan kişi bunu hiç kimseye söylememeni istiyorsa, bu kötü bir dokunmadır.
Dokunan kişi bunu başkasına söylersen sana bir zarar vereceği tehdidinde bulunuyorsa bu kötü bir dokunmadır.

Maalesef bazı yetişkinler onlara duyduğun güveni kötüye kullanabilirler. Yanlış yapan sen değil, istemediğin bir biçimde sana dokunan kişidir. Cinsel taciz daha büyük, daha yaşlı, daha güçlü kişilerin işlediği bir suçtur. Kendini suçlama ve kimsenin de seni suçlamasına izin verme.

Quality isn’t always free

alanpa — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:34:06 -0700

Regular Expressions for Regular Programmers

Jeff Atwood — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:59:59 -0700

I'm a Googler now

James Whittaker — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:22:00 -0700

By James Whittaker

Here I am. Thanks for all the inquiries.

Why the change to Google? I’ve been asked that over and over again. As I reflect on the whole process, I have to admit that I like change. I like the challenge it brings, the creativity it sparks and the potential that I might fail at some new endeavor is simply intoxicating. Change, I think, is good. After all, if Robert Plant and Jimmy Page had never ventured beyond their comfortable British borders, they would have never written Kashmir and the planet is far better off for having that song.

My first week at Google has been a whirlwind of activity. I had the distinction of being (at a ripe of old age of 43) the oldest person at new employee orientation. I passed a billionaire in the hallway. I sat in a room with some of the best testing minds in Silicon Valley and walked across campus with a young engineer whose biggest problem is that she can’t learn enough fast enough. I’ve signed dozens of books.

There’s much to learn and much to do. I’ll catalog the results here if anyone is interested in following it. Coming from a company like Microsoft, I am used to mind-bogglingly complex problems and comfortable with partial solutions that point toward a better but still imperfect future. My role at Google will be to continue to thwart the impossible. Innovation as a main course is what brought me here. I hope to continue my work on testing tours and envisioning the future, but I am even more excited about the things I can’t yet see. Given the team that I am working with here, I think it is safe to expect big things.

In case you are interested, I am located in the Kirkland WA office and not yet assigned to a project. If I am lucky I will manage to get my hands into everything. I’ll try and be careful not to spill the secret sauce over my nicest shirt…

Memory Usage Auditing for .NET Applications

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:56:53 -0700

Memory Usage Auditing for .NET Applications

InfoQ: Metamodel Oriented Programming

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:24:17 -0700

InfoQ: Metamodel Oriented Programming

Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented

(author unknown) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:57:00 -0700

Ask Wolfram Alpha: Are You Skynet? [Blockquote]

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:20:00 -0700

You 2.0 Free E-Book

J.D. Meier — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:56:02 -0700

Band Used By The Prosecution In Pirate Bay Case Releases Latest Album... On The Pirate Bay

Michael Masnick — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:49:00 -0700

YouTube - homeproject's Channel

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:47:31 -0700

YouTube - homeproject's Channel: We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

The Oslo team are implementing UML 2

Steve Cook — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:23:00 -0700

Rebecca Norlander - Challenge and Success | Behind The Code | Channel 9

Mon, 25 May 2009 02:56:34 -0700

Rebecca Norlander - Challenge and Success | Behind The Code | Channel 9

tortoisegit - Google Code

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:56:26 -0700

tortoisegit - Google Code

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back

Sun, 24 May 2009 22:56:21 -0700

Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back

InfoQ: Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep

Sat, 23 May 2009 19:55:33 -0700

InfoQ: Developing Expertise: Herding Racehorses, Racing Sheep: In this presentation made during QCon 2007, Dave Thomas talks about expanding people’s expertise in their domains of interest by not treating them uniformly as they had the same amount of knowledge…

How Long Did It Take for the World to Identify Google as an AltaVista Killer?

Harry McCracken — Fri, 22 May 2009 18:39:10 -0700

Earlier this week, I mused about the fact that folks keep identifying new Web services as Google killers, and keep being dead wrong. Which got me to wondering: How quickly did the world realize that Google would come to dominate Web search in a way that few businesses have ever been dominated? Did anyone know from the get go that it would whip AltaVista and other once-mighty sites?

It’s still surprisingly hard to search the Web for information from a particular time period. But I found some early references to Google–mostly positive, and none of which were prescient enough to realize its implications.

I’m not positive when Google was first live on the Web at large rather than just at Stanford University, but the earliest mention of it I stumbled across was this praise in a USENET group from November 28th, 1998. Everything it says about the search engine remains true to this day:

I just found GOOGLE, located at http://google.stanford.edu

And found it pretty darned reliable.

Type in a topic and click “I’m Feeling Lucky” and have found it turns up the
most likely site most of the time.

I don’t believe you have to register with the site, and it caches pages.

In December 1998, PC Magazine was forward-looking enough to say nice things about Google and name it as one of the top 100 sites, although it regarded it as an experiment, not as one of life’s necessities:

Here’s your chance to search the Web and participate in high-level academic research at the same time. Google! is a Stanford University project designed to find the most relevant Web pages (those with the most inbound links) and run searches against them. The 25 million pages currently catalogued seem to be good choices; the site has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results. There’s much more to come at Google!, but even in its prototype form it’s a great search engine.

(PC Mag’s acknowledgement of Google’s excellence came so early that it gave its URL as google.stanford.edu–an address that still works, although it no longer points to Google itself.)

In June of 1999, a Cnet story on Web startups dwelled on a search company called Direct Hit, then mentioned Google briefly and dispassionately:

Another start-up working on improved search results is Google. Google’s technology resembles citation analysis, which ranks the importance of documents by how many times they are cited. Google ranks search results based on how many sites link to them.

Google, founded last year by Stanford University computer science graduates Sergey Brin and Larry Page, is named for the word “googol,” which means 10 to the 100th power.

In July of 1999, the Boston Globe reported on a study of various search engines (story behind paywall) which called Northern Light (remember them? no?) the most comprehensive one, and which treated Google as an also-ran:

Next after Northern Light were Snap and AltaVista, which covered 15.5 percent of the Web. HotBot covered 11.3 percent; Microsoft, 8.5 percent; Infoseek, 8 percent; Google, 7.8 percent; Yahoo, 7.4 percent; Excite, 5.6 percent; Lycos, 2.5 percent, and Euroseek, 2.2 percent.

In August, the San Francisco Chronicle mentioned Google in a roundup of interesting search-related companies, but thought its cofounder was named Sergey Vrin:

“There are a number of other companies like Excite and Infoseek and they have search components, but primarily, they are media companies,” said Vrin. Google is a no- frills search engine that aims to do one thing well.

Curiously enough, the first mention of Google in the New York Times seems to have occurred when designer Diane Von Furstenburg raved about it in September 1999:

It’s not officially out, but this is simply a great search engine. It’s quick. It’s fun to use. I want to check on a movie, read about an actor, find out who directed a particular film, this is where I look. It is very clever.

Also in September, BusinessWeek published a piece that praised Google but was also careful to adopt a skeptical approach about the notion that you could make a lot of money by focusing on search and selling ads:

But at a time when other popular search sites such as Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos have all morphed into diversified entertainment portals, is there really a future for a pure, advertising-supported search tool?

In November, Sergey Brin participated in an online chat at the Washington Post’s site, and was asked how Google intended to make money through focusing on search:

Leslie Walker: How does Google plan to make money? Unlike the other big search engines-most of which added a bevy of services and have become mini-AOLs rather than search services-your Web site has little more than a search box.

So where will your revenue come from?

Sergey Brin: Leslie, have you visited our online t-shirt store?

More seriously, we currently make money from cobranding with partners like Netscape and RedHat. We also recently launched our ad program which is quite differentiated.

By December, the search engine had made TIME magazine’s list of the top tech of the year, which is probably as good a benchmark of mainstream success as any:

GOOGLE.COM With sites such as Yahoo, Infoseek and Excite constantly beefing themselves up into the online equivalent of mega-malls, it’s refreshing to find a search engine that does nothing but search. And search well. Google’s award-winning, commonsense approach nearly always seems to come up with exactly what you’re looking for.

Another December piece, in Britain’s The Independent, praised the Google home page for its simplicity:

The first thing that strikes visitors to Google’s native home page is its simplicity; all it offers is a field to enter a search term, and a couple of buttons. Google provides no news, weather, stock quotes, horoscopes or free e-mail.

Even in May, 2000, Google was still humble enough that a fanciful Slate piece could mock its name as sounding dopey–and no, I don’t think the dismissive tone here was meant to be completely ironic:

A neighbor came over to complain about me cutting down trees in my yard and happened to see a Furboy in action. He was an associate in marketing at “Have you read our latest Polese release?” Marimba and was hoping to become the VP of marketing at google.com, another stupid-named company, and was meeting VCs, so to impress them he mentioned what he saw at my house (can you believe VCs actually have spies?).

Any lessons here? People are smart enough to recognize good stuff when they see it. But they’re not able to predict the unpredictable–and as good as Google was in 1998 and 1999, it A) wasn’t as good as it would later become; and B) hadn’t figured out how to turn high-quality search results into billions of dollars in advertising revenue.

A Google killer may well be out there even as we speak. We may even be saying nice things about it. But it would amaze me if we’ve figured out yet that it’s going to kill Google…

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Last.fm Mağduriyetinden Kullanıcı Sendikasına

Onur Güngör — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:53:25 -0700

Biraz önce Replikas’tan bir şarkı dinledim bilgisayarımda. Bu sırada MP3 oynatıcıma eklenmiş bir yazılım ise arkaplanda bunu last.fm sunucularına haber vermekle meşguldu.

Günün her anı milyonlarca kişi milyonlarca şarkı dinliyor, ve aynen benim bilgisayarımın yaptığı gibi onlarınki de bıkmadan usanmadan dinlenen bütün şarkıları last.fm‘e haber vermekte. Yani last.fm kullanıcısı olan her dinleyicinin müzik zevki kayıt edilmekte.

Bu ölçekte ve güncellikte bir müzik dinleme verisinin neler için kullanılabileceğini burada anlatmaya lüzum yok. Herhalde en önemli ve en çok karşılaştığımız kullanım alanı, müzik yapımcılarının ve reklamcıların, biriktirilen bu toplu zekayı kullanarak daha da iyi hedeflenmiş kitlelere ulaşmaları.

Bu verileri ellerinde bulunduranların daha önce hayal bile edilemeyecek doğrulukta bir öngörüye kavuşmalarına yaptıkları küçük (ayrı ayrı göz önüne alındığında) katkılarla yol veren milyonlar ise, bundan birkaç hafta önce last.fm’in resmi blog’undan ilan ettiği üzere last.fm’in sunduğu radyoları dinleme haklarından mahrum edildiler. Ki bu özellik bir anlamda kullanıcı katkısının karşılığı kabul edilegeliyordu. Yapılan açıklamaya göre bahsi geçen radyo yayınları artık ABD, Büyük Britanya ve Almanya dışındaki ülkelerde ancak ücretli olarak dinlenebilecek. Tabii dinlediğiniz şarkıları last.fm’e haber vermek hala ücretsiz..

Herhalde yaklaşık iki yıl önce yine Düğümküme’de yapılmış bir tespitin last.fm tarafından da ne kadar iyi anlaşıldığını takdir etmek lazım:

… O takdirde, Web 2.0′nin temel prensibini “insanların katkısını yani toplu zekayı uygulamanın gelişimi doğrultusunda kullanan sosyal bileşenli uygulamalar üretmek” olarak tanımlayabiliriz.

Bu kararın bir yandan ayrımcı yanına dikkat çekerken, bir yandan da kişisel verilerimizi nerelere emanet ettiğimizin farkına varmamız açısından dikkate alınması gereken bir gelişme olduğuna inanıyorum. Belki de bunun uç bir örneği olarak 30 Kasım 2006′da gerçekleşen Manevi Emek Borsasını hatırlatmalıyım. Bu borsadaki hisselerin değerleri, dünya üzerindeki dört farklı mekanı ziyaret eden insan sayıları tarafından belirleniyordu. Sadece bir ortamda bulunarak bile neden olabildiğimiz verinin, -bu örnekte saf spekülasyon için kullanılsa da- tahmin edemediğimiz yerlerde kullanılabildiğine dikkat çeken bir çalışma.

Daha önce bu blogda defalarca dile getirildiği gibi (bkz: İlgili Yazılar), internet sakinlerinin önünde duran en büyük sorun, yanyana gelince büyük değer kazanabilen kişisel verilerimizin sahipliği sorunu olmaya devam edecek. Bunlardan üretilen değerden biz ne kadar pay alıyoruz, web sitelerinden aldığımız hizmet bunu karşılıyor mu? Bu durumu değiştirmek için gereken düzenlemelerin yapılmasını kimler zorlayacak? İnternette ortak bir mücadele örgütlenebilir mi? Bunlar cevaplanması gereken sorular.

İnternet sakinlerinin belki de savaşı en baştan kaybetmemesi için fiziksel dünyada da bir ayağı bulunan, aynen 19. yüzyılda modern toplum oluşurken yapılan hak mücadeleleri gibi bir mücadeleden başka çıkış yok gibi.

Burak Arıkan ve Engin Erdoğan’ın Mayıs 2008′de ortaya koydukları User Labor (”Kullanıcı Emeği”) adlı bir mikro-emek ölçüm mekanizması sunan veri yapısının, bir ilk adım olarak değerli olduğuna inanıyorum. Ancak, aynen işyerlerinin çalışanlarını sosyal sigorta kapsamına almasının anayasayla zorunlu kılınmadığı durumlarda olduğu gibi, büyük kitleler tarafından kullanılan web sitelerinin de bu duruma zorlanmadığı taktirde User Labor gibi şemaları hayata geçirmelerinin çok zor olduğu açık.

Tek tek internet kullanıcılarının örgütsüzlüğünün bu duruma neden olduğu göz önüne alınırsa, belki ihtiyacımız olan şey, her kullanıcının ayrı bir sözleşme imzalaması yerine, kullanıcının -istemli veya istemsiz- yaptığı bütün katkıları bir bütün olarak korumak üzere hazırlanmış bir toplu sözleşmeyi hazırlama ve imzalama güç ve yetkisini temsil ettiği milyonlardan alan bir sendikadır.

Eğer last.fm’e geri dönersek, böyle bir sendikanın çağrısıyla, sadece radyo yayınının hala ücretsiz olduğu üç ülkenin dışında kalan ülkelerdeki milyonların katılımıyla gerçekleştirilecek olsa bile, insanların bir anda ve toplu olarak, dinledikleri müzikleri haber vermeyi durdurmaları, şu anda profillerinde olan şarkıları geri çekip, başka bir servise aktarmakla tehdit etmeleri, last.fm’in radyo yayınlarını paralılaştırma kararını alırken bir kere daha düşünmesine yol açardı.

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* Yazıda kullanılan görsel, yazarın “We are listening!” adlı görselleştirmesinden alınmıştır. Bilgi Üniversitesi Dolapdere kampüsündeki kamuya açık bir alanda sergilenmekte olan görselleştirme, yazarın last.fm’deki arkadaşlarını ve aralarındaki bağları açık etmesinin yanında kullanıcı avatarlarını beklenmeyen bir bağlamda yan yana getirmekte.

Right-wing talker Mancow gets waterboarded and says: "It's Absolutely Torture "

John Amato — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:00:05 -0700

Data.gov

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Data.gov: Amazing initiative from US Government

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Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog : MMS Windows 7 Deployment Keynote Demo, behind the scenes………

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Tragedy in Seattle

Cliff Mass Weather Blog — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:04:00 -0700

Tonight the Seattle School Board finally voted on the acquisition of high school math textbooks, and the results were both disappointing and tragic. In a four to three vote they agreed to adopt the Discovering Math series...extremely weak discovery/fuzzy math textbooks. Found to be "unsound" by a panel of mathematicians hired by the State Board of Education, the books are obviously deficient to anyone who knows about mathematics. What really is upsetting is that that the Seattle School District has now picked poor math curricula three times...since they selected very weak math books at the elementary (Everyday Math) and middle schools levels (CPM math). The trifecta of ineffective math books.
The bottom line of all this is that it will be virtually impossible for students in the State's largest school district to get a decent education in math. This has not been a successful district...with their students' math performance lagging seriously... and they have now sealed the academic fates of students over the next decade or so (the last time they acquired new high school math textbooks was over a decade ago).

Since math is so important for a student's success in college and in the jobs of the future, this is a terrible setback for thousands of children and their parents. Tutoring companies will enjoy a bonanza as will private schools. Who could voluntarily send their children to such a district, knowing that they will be unprepared for the high-tech world of the future?

It was gratifying that three of the board members saw the problem and voted against Discovering Math (Michael DeBell, Harium Martin-Morris, and Mary Bass). Michael DeBell was particularly impressive and thoughtful. The board members supporting Discovering math claimed they were powerless to oppose the curriculum since the proper process was followed. It was painful to watch an obviously failing school district and the inability of the majority of the board to see beyond process to the desperate needs of the district's students.. The only hope on the horizon is that many neighboring districts are not making the same mistake and eventually their success will be such an embarrassment to Seattle that it will have to dump--at great expense---these turkey textbooks. A real tragedy.

It is also time for the community to work to replace several of the hapless Board members, who admittedly ignored a huge number of calls and emails on this issue. Of particular note was Cheryl Chow, whose embarrassingly long, rambling speech was both inappropriate and off-topic at the same time. We need better people than this to run the school district of our state's largest city.