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Net not affected

Saturday, August 16, 2003

Write Robert MacMillan of the Washington Post, “no refrigeration, no subways, no smooth traffic flow, no air conditioning—well, at least the Internet worked.

So did the phones, at least in theory. That was the big message in the tech media’s coverage of the mega-blackout that took down the power grid serving much of the northeast United States and southern Canada yesterday.”

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Subway, NYC

Friday, August 15, 2003

photo of nyc subway
Taken on Monday, August 11, on Lexington Ave. 

Posted by emily chang on 08.15.03
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Blackout Blog

Power is back up in Ithaca, NY.  Check this link for blackout coverage on the web.  Yesterday, our power cut out at 4:11 pm like many on the east coast.  I was in the middle of a work email and was irked, thinking it was a fuse blowing out.  We looked out and heard neighbors commenting about the whole area losing power.  Z heard someone mention something about New York City.  That’s when we got out our hand-crank shortwave radio and tuned into a station bringing live street reports from Manhattan.  We were immediately suspicious of terrorism, particularly having seen a recent PBS special that described how certain extremist groups had been attempting hacks on America’s infrastructure technology, some of which is actually online.  My first thought was of E and friends in NY, hoping they were close to home and each other.  I imagined all the the poor people caught in the subways and elevators.  And, of course, all the stranded commuters and folks from the outer burroughs.  Just two days ago, it could have been Z and I stranded there.  Watching the footage of the masses walking across the bridges, I had to again question and confront 1. my lifelong desire to live in New York City and 2. my fears of being trapped on the island on foot with 8 million other people.

Posted by emily chang on 08.15.03
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Audio-on-demand service for cellphones

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

2 will announce an audio-on-demand service for cellphones - New York Times

RealNetworks and Sprint will announce today that they’ve teamed up on a digital audio service that will offer content from ABC News, Fox Sports, National Public Radio and others. The service, which will cost $4.95 a month, will be available on various handsets and ill include a monophonic digital audio program and the ability to view still images. Video images will be available by the end of the year they say.

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Posted by emily chang on 08.12.03
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Personalized searches

Monday, August 11, 2003

WEB SITES SEEK THE PERSONAL TOUCH

Kaltix, a Web search venture formed by three members of Stanford University’s PageRank team, is bent on out-Googling Google by developing a speedier version of the Stanford PageRank algorithm and using it to develop a more personalized Web search service. “Kaltix is a ‘stealth-mode’ startup… (leveraging) research done at Stanford University as well as several new technologies developed at Kaltix to provide large-scale personalized and context-sensitive search,” says a company representative. A number of companies outside of the search engine sector, such as Amazon and TiVo, have attempted to integrate personalization features into their business, but most have fallen short of expectations. If search developers are successful, they could help millions of people better navigate the Web, while unlocking new revenue from online advertisers eager to maximize their
return on marketing dollars. “Personalization is one of the holy grails for search,” says Chris Sherman, editor of Search Day. “Everybody’s working on personalization to some degree or another. When it comes out of the labs and what flavor it takes are the big questions.” Sherman adds that the key to success will be getting the user interface right—giving users notice of what data has been collected, where it’s stored and how it can be changed or removed. “A lot of it is going to be experimental. Personalization can turn people off if it’s interfering and annoys them,” says University of Pittsburgh professor Amanda Spink. (CNet News.com 11 Aug 2003)

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Posted by emily chang on 08.11.03
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I heart NYC

Saturday, August 09, 2003

Driving to New York tomorrow morning for Z’s interview.  Looking forward to seeing E and A and staying at the W New York on Lexington.  Planning to have dinner at a little Korean vegetarian place, Hangawi.

Wonder if we’ll have time to go to the Whitney to see American Effect.  The exhibition “explores a wide range of global perception of the United States.  With forty–seven artists and filmmakers and three collaboratives selected from thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and South and North America, the show surveys works made since 1990 in a wide variety of media, including drawing, photography, film, installation, painting, sculpture, video, and Internet art.”

Posted by emily chang on 08.09.03
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