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...excellent) essay on ChatRoulette, New York magazine's Sam Anderson approaches his first foray into the video streams with "an open mind and an eager soul," seeing the Whitmanesque potential in the "ecstatic surrender to the miraculous variety and abundance of humankind." Sorry, Sam, but I'm no Internet naïf. I've plumbed the depths of the Web, and one thing I've learned is that when you give anyone an open platform with anonymity and no moderating, it inevitably gets overrun by the lowest common denominators: trolls, exhibitionists and an endless stream of hopeful men prodding women...
...what's in it for Google? Faster Internet connections could increase consumer appetite for Google offerings like YouTube, particularly as the company has made a cautious foray into the movie-rental business. Services like Google Voice stand to benefit as well, as better speeds could let Google expand the product into a full-fledged VoIP telephone service. But ultimately this might be best read as a bid toward the future. "We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra-high speeds, whether it's creating new bandwidth-intensive 'killer apps' and services, or other uses...
...level view of the country, rather than a bird's-eye one, have also been appearing. I am thinking, for example, of Fast Boat to China (2007). This is a lively account of the human side of Shanghai-based outsourcing by Andrew Ross, who usefully dubs his study a foray into "scholarly reporting" - a term for books that, as he puts it, have "mined the overlap between ethnography and journalism...
...Amazon's foray into the digital-book business with its groundbreaking Kindle reader that's been making the biggest headlines lately, as sales far exceeded analysts' expectations. Its decision to allow customers to download best-selling books from its e-bookstore to the Kindle for only $9.99 a pop played a big role in stimulating demand. "When we have both [hardcover and e-book] editions, we sell six Kindle books for every 10 physical books," said Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon, in a statement...
That would be Dartmouth’s last foray into the net, as Bellamy buckled down behind a defense that successfully fought off five Big Green power plays...