Teresa Orlowski, historic Polish Porn queen. Possibly Andrew Orlowski’s older sister. The va-va-voom girl of Eastern Europe. She has nothing to do with this post except for her name and the fact that she’s much more attractive than Andrew. At least to me.
The Emerging Emergocon Meme!
by bayvult (555108) on Wednesday August 18, @11:08AM (#10001743)
Here’s how Howard Rheingold goes about his business of making money from Junk Science. Just fill in the blanks.
“Will the advent of [A] give rise to a new [B] which displays emergent properties of [C]?”
* 1) In this case let [A] = weblogs, wikis or wifi. VR’s and virtual communities have been done. The important thing is that whatever it is shows “emergent” properities. Anything shows emergent properties, but it must sound appropriately “empowering” and biological.
* 2) Let [B] be a new economy or political organization. These can alternate as you wish.
* 3) Make sure [C] includes at least contemporary references to at least two from the following three: evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, game theory.
Now make those all important calls to Stewart Brand’s Global Business Network and the Foresight Institute. Beg John Brockman to slip something onto edge.org. Tap Esther Dyson and ask her to bring it up at the next Santa Fe Institute board meeting. One of these will provide the backing for the seed conference.
Now call up one of the youngsters you’ve been grooming, like Cory Doctorow, who will get very excited about this, without raising any awkward questions. The “memes” will then spread: and anyone who doubts that the political economy hasn’t changed as if by magic can be dismissed very simply: they simply Don’t Get It!
With that, you should be set up for two or three years of modestly lucrative consultancy – and then it’s time to do it all over again. Rinse and repeat.
Although I cannot prove it, I believe this was actually posted by the cynical Andrew Orlowski of the Register. Orlowski first discovered and coined the concept of Google-washing, claiming that blogs have ruined the Google model for web searching, an accusation denied by Google executives. Orlowski proposed the simple measure of taking blogs off the search altogether in various articles e wrote for the Register. This was never executed. (I’m convinced it’s because Orlowski suggested it in the first place. The company seems very sensitive to any sort of criticism. In a recent secret meeting with PR professionals done as a conference call John Markoff of the NY Times confirmed Google’s over-sensitivity to criticsm of any sort. But I digress.)
Orlowski maintains a website/blog here and here.
The Great Google Ad Test
Transformation
If I’m not mistaken, the Google strategy, at least for making money from ads, is to match advertisers with users based on search terms and site content. You wrote, “Considering the content on this web log, the Google evaluation bot seems to suck.” It appears that the weakness of the Google bot is that it cannot use reverse logic. We (people) tend to use forward logic in finding things and solving daily problems. A bot that is logical still is a bot. Reverse logic is useful in solving a mystery. As Sherlock Homes said, “Watson, when I say that you are instructive, I mean that I learn from your mistakes.” The Google bot is not instructive, mainly because it is not capable of making mistakes, or is it? The Google ad bot gives the illusion of perfection, with none of the benefits that come from screwing up something beyond perfection. The bot is dead, long live the bot. I’m sure the bot can sell ads to people selling services to other people that are victimized by computer glitches. That’s easy! The Google ad bot may have what we know as Security/integrity/misuse problems. United Airlines Web site for one hour accidentally offered SFO-Paris round trips for cost of taxes and fees only (roughly $30 instead of $300) Talk about cheap tickets eh! The ad bot can write instructions for finding ads, but can it write a good mystery?
The dead bot seemed to stare at me in a most disconcerting way. My auto bot reports the following:
Parisian computer transforms traffic charges into big crimes (S 14 6) $ Georgia vehicles stopped as stolen; new tags match old ones (S 15 3)$f New California DMV computer system issues large erroneous bills (S 16 1) $e SW patch adds $10-30 to 300,000 auto tax bills in Georgia (S 19 3:5)$ Chicago cars get erroneous tickets for illegal parking (S 15 3) $h 1000 IL residents dunned for bogus parking violations (S 15 3)$f NYC parking violations computer issues many bogus bills per year (S 15 5) f Computer glitch mails Mass. driver’s licenses `en masse’ (S 22 4:29, R 18 83)f NJ DMV computer changes drivers’ names to “Watkins Leasing Co.” (S 12 3) $ NSWales computer deregisters ALL police cars; unmarked car scofflaw (S 15 2)i Mileage input default problem in Ill. exhaust emission enforcement (S 17 2) $fd California DMV system upgrade botched; $44.3M deadend (S 19 3:5)m Computer crash caused loss of scheduled taxi cab pickups (R 20 98; S 26 1:20) ….. Automated highways:* Human risks in IVHS automated vehicles (R 19 08,10,11)
You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. Have I passed the great Google Ad Test Mr. Dvorak?
One of the best known concepts in science fiction is Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics. The laws state that:
1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or second Laws.
Google is protecting its own existence, but bots are totalitarian. John has Google Ads and a Great Google Ad Test here. 90-percent of the time I’ve noticed that the ads are for OCD or some other form of disorder, wrote Dvorak. It’s a bot, it’s dumb, has no soul what else can you say? Maybe the ad bot has a disorder. Who knows?
That’s why tech stocks are so risky. You are better off betting on the horses than on a tech stock, since there are no bots involved. Good luck.
John, You should get some porn ads on the blog here. Maybe the Google Ad Words bot will start putting Porno ads up for you. That will make you some more money. It may also get the suckers more engaged with the blogging. Skin sells, just don’t get skinned alive. Tough love beats tough luck!
Orlowski’s whine is the right-wing equivalent of the anarchist’s predictable conspiracy theory. A bit more obscure; though, worth a chuckle from anyone actually familiar with edge.org or the Santa Fe Institute. Orlowski must have hurt feelings from not being invited to join the Reality Club.
The Google bot obviously can be manipulated by some hosting providers. As I’ve noted elsewhere, visitors to the website of Richard Dawkins, the Darwinian biologist, are inevitably confronted with Google adverts for creationism, the positive power of prayer and other similar spooky offerings antithetical to the body of Dawkins’ work.
His hosting company has offered to alter the response — for a fee.
Personally I thought he was right on the money!!
C’mon, John. Hasn’t Brand invited you to work on his clock? Come to think of it — we’ve never seen a photo of you outdoors, except, maybe, waiting in line at Cebit.
How about it?
Are you referring to the Danny Hillis clock? And no. But why would I want to? I’ll post a pic of me outside.
Ed wrote, “The Google bot obviously can be manipulated by some hosting providers.” Interesting. Can the Google Ads be faked? Does Google permit manipulating the bot? If the bot is manipulated and ads are faked, how can anybody be sure that a Google Ad isn’t a phishing scheme? Who audits Google Ad Words? Does anybody monitor these ads or look for fake links? Have any answers John D.? You have Google Ads here, hows this all work? What’s the security plan and why are potentially manipulated ads not a security risk?
These tired old grey cells don’t always remember, so well. Certainly, it’s the Hillis clock. My recollection is — that Stewart Brand happened to be the 1st person I saw/heard talking about it — on SCREENSAVERS. Since, those archives are somewhere buried beneath DOOM and MYST, nowadays, I’m not even going to try to check back on my recollection. I think there’s even a documentary of sorts about it — floating around places like the Discovery Channel.
The concept always impressed me as the 1st time in Western Society I bumped into public figures dealing with social concepts beyond “near term”. Some spare time or other, check out the 1,000-year plan left behind by the late Mr. Matsushita for his corporation.
I think you would look great in a pith helmet, John.
Trouble in Google Dice
Google’s initial public offering of stock has forced many workers there to wrestle with a problem that most Americans can only fantasize about: How should I handle my jackpot?
‘… a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.’
Whatever you do, don’t panic if the stock starts dropping fast. Never get emotional about a stock.
Waiting on the Flood
Google gets it. What the investors don’t seem to get or care about are the huge risks associated with investing in Google. There’s gold in Google, let’s have a goldrush or at least the fever. The offering was pegged at $108-135 a share. Nice if you can get it. This figure was based on buzz, hype, whatever you want to call it. Now this!
Reuters reports that, “There’s going to be a big potential to flood the market in Google stock over the next six months right up to Valentine’s Day,” Richard Peterson, market strategist for Thomson Securities Data told Barron’s. “Common sense tells you that it doesn’t bode well for price stability.”
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=6037977
Google gets it, when it is focused on running a search engine. I don’t see how “blogs have ruined the Google model for web searching.” Whatever the Google model is, nobody seems to be duplicating it. That says something. Google appears good for search, while research is an open question. The IPO was a mess (who will duplicate the process?) and the mess could get much bigger, much faster and get Google in trouble they just don’t have the resources to deal with. Especially true if the stock tanks! Flooding the market with Google stock could help drown investors. Common sense also tells you that price stability is important to growth. Google washing may take on a whole new meaning soon. When people get an inflation brainstorm, there’s only one way to get it out of their blood. Let it collapse. Get it or get over it. Google could climb higher and higher still. The old way of doing business may be ending, but in a flood people still head for higher ground. Gravity is still gravity, new or old it works the same way. Good luck in the valley, I hope it doesn’t become the valley of the shadow of death.
bonjour teresa.ca fait des annees que je cherche a te contacter mais toujours pas moyen ,finalement la chance ma bien sourier alors je tien a t’ecrir ses qlq lignes pour te dire que je suis obseder par ton beau corp et tes films m’ont vraiment pas laisser le gout de voir d’autres alors j’espere que c’est un bon debut pour moi .je souhaite recevoir une reponse de toi … bisou
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