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...possible. At Digg (a tech-oriented site), for example, users flag stories as interesting, and members of the community vote; the story rises on the page with the number of votes. Memeorandum, which currently focuses on politics and tech, combines traditional news and blogs to help track and understand the web conversation about current top news.As intriguing as these experiments are, they only hint at what’s coming to help manage the news torrent. We will need tools that combine machine and human intelligence, reputation, and popularity.Readers and viewers will also need to bring a more sophisticated approach...
...fighting terror that gives us pause. In the fall, the Bush administration came under fire when it was found to have authorized secret warrant-free wiretapping of Americans. In 2004, a proposal made its way through the Department of Education policy chain to establish a government database to keep track of everything from academic records to sports teams. Supposedly designed to better track students’ progress and help improve educational developments, the plan included no way for students to opt out of being tracked. With the renewal of the Patriot Act, citizens must be forewarned. The passage of this...
...would have expected precisely the opposite, just in the way that it’s easier for the public to track the president than Congress,” Burden wrote...
Nate Stahlings (Josh Dean), new college grad, is starting adult life on the slow track--specifically, the move-back-to-your-folks'-house-in-Missouri track. Ride is, like Sons and Daughters, partly improvised (creator Rob Roy Thomas brought us Bravo's improv-com Significant Others), and that gives the slacker comedy an appealing, meandering feel. Good-hearted, eccentric and wry, Ride goes nowhere fast, but it has a fine time getting there...
...NCAA championships this past weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. senior Samyr Laine and sophomore Lindsey Scherf respresented the Harvard track and field teams by competing in the long jump and the women’s 5000- and 3000-meter runs, respectively. Laine, who was named U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division I Northeast Region Field Athlete of the Year, jumped 15.48 meters in his third and final attempt to place 12th in a field of 17 competitors. Lane also fouled on his first attempt and landed a jump of 14.95 meters on his second. Scherf, in only...