thought

silence, distance, uneasiness, uncertainty, unwillingness

Beaten by Google - Joe Kraus founder of excite

Lessons from Silicon Valley from bbc

"Lesson number one from Excite is about timing in a technology business
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Lesson two says: the internet is a new sort of market place that needs new business plans to make it work.
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Both Excite and Google are free to use; both business plans needed the support of advertisers.
But Excite took the conventional view that the ads would come from the top 100 companies in the USA, the people who buy huge amount of TV time and blanket the newspapers and the magazines.
Google did not go for the big spenders. Google's squads of PhDs wrote algorithms that would make it viable for the company to take hundreds of thousands of ads from hundreds of thousands of small (or big) companies, and pop the ads up in highly relevant spaces close to the search lists. "

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"As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions."
- Elizabeth Fee

where have all the leaders gone?

today times of india covered the perspective makeover of "Lalu"... not that i am surprised either by the makeover or by the coverage, but was just wondering where have all the days gone when the leader were judged by the work they did, not by the "image" they portrayed to the media.
i guess it is one of the hazards of media or maybe that leaders do not do any actual work so they need images or maybe the public would like to just believe the image and look into the work they have done or a combination of all.
(just wondering)

savior lions

Ethiopian girl reportedly guarded by lions from msnbc

strange story i wonder if it is actually true. i read it in a couple of other places too.

common practice

Indian girl, 14, wins a divorce from bbc

how the hell did she get married in the first place!!!!!!!!!!

read it carefully... :)

"One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too."