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I typically don't write pieces like this one, but, I must – awareness is key… VeriChip is a company that creates an implantable RFID chip… and is an example of very smart people, who have the best of intentions (maybe), but are doing something dangerous to society – they think they are doing the right … Read more

Theory “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; “theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses”; “true in fact and theory” “a comprehensive explanation of a given set of data that … Read more

The permalink for article Mechanical Turks, Answers, and the Attribution Problem has changed to: http://weblog.cenriqueortiz.com/general/2006/05/01/mechanical-turks-answers-and-the-attribution-problem-2 This was due to change in category from “/” to “General”… Sorry for the inconvenience – Blojsom doesn't handle category changes that great :-)

Mechanical Turks, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, web services, blog aggregators, web searches, screen scraping, data and information, copyright and attribution… With the rise of “easy access to information” comes a relatively new, still untapped solution vertical: Answers… Amazon offers its Mechanical Turk API, Google and Yahoo! both offer Answer products, which in turn relies on people … Read more

Russ wrote his last page on his notebook/weblog. Hey Russ, I am looking forward to the 1st page, your first chapter of your new “book”… Lot's of great contributions by you, and you will be missed while in your break. It is my experience that writing quality stuff is not easy – it takes time, … Read more

The Bloglines folks published a hidden feature or keyboard shortcut… pressing M hides/unhides the navigational frame, resulting in “maximizing/minimizing” the article's frame. Neat. I decided to go for a hunt for other hidden features, and this is what I've found so far: R = refresh My Feeds S = step to next unread feed M … Read more

Er… I said pulmonary edema, not enema… ;-) We should expect health concerns due to the use of nanotechnology in consumer and household products – I see the writing on the wall… Not sure if this reported case is really related to nanotechnology per-se, but it could be a case of nanotechnology affecting the health … Read more

Due to historical reasons, I have too many URLs to my blog's RSS feed, for example: http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.j2medeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/rss http://www.javamedeveloper.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/rss http://www.cenriqueortiz.com/weblog/?flavor=rss2 Plus URLs to Atom, RDF, and XML feeds to the above TLDs. A management headache… It would be awesome if I could deprecate URLs and TLDs over time in favor of a single … Read more

Come on Blogger! How can you just disable the Mobile Monday Austin blog?!!! Your automated process suck. MoMo Austin is not a SPAM blog!!! Man, I tell you, this is the exact reason why SLAs should be extended to Web 2.0!!! Crap. It seems that I need to move MoMo Austin blog out of Blogger … Read more

If you want to learn about how to make money with Google, go grab a copy of Make Easy Money With Google: Using the Adsense Advertising Program, which is written by my buddy Eric Giguère, mobility expert, and now considered the contextual advertising expert… Very cool. The book, which is targeted at people who want … Read more