End of 2006 marked slow blogging days for this blog. However, this would not prevent me from wishing a happy new year for everyone.
I hope the new year brings us happiness and health. That’s all I want. The rest is easier when we have those.
See you next year with more of my exciting blogging.
One of the main problems with podcasts is not being able to search inside a podcast just like text based web content.
Pluggd seems to have the solution for that and it seems very promising from their demo. They are using speech processing and semantics to pinpoint the sections of the audio that contain the search term. It is called Hear Here!
I immediately signed up for the service to try it out. However, from what I understand only ESPN Sportscenter podcasts are search enabled at the moment. Their blog says the feature will be available site wide soon.
This week’s tune of the week will come from Count Boogie. One of his mp3 were dropped on my podcatcher by Daily Dose Podcast.
The song was called Tom Please Share and was about no other than the MySpace Tom who is everyone’s friend. I immediately went to his website called MyMP3forFree.com and found out that he is all about giving his work for free for non-commercial purposes.
On his site, he has Rock-Pop-Punk, Acoustic-Soft Rock, Comedy and Funky-RAP categories with many songs available for download.
I attended a seminar today about data privacy given by Bradley Malin, an assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt.
It was a pretty interesting talk on an interesting subject. You must have heard about the AOL search data scandal this past summer when AOL released lots of search data. One may think that it does not hurt to publicly release anonymous data. Although users were anonymized by using some unique numbers, it didn’t take long for people to personally identify a user by cross-referencing with other public data. In this talk, Malin also emphasized the point that even though data is anonymous, it may still be possible to identify who it belongs to by using other publicly available data, which in his interest is the medical data.
The above image that I stole from Creating Passionate Users’ post suggesting not waiting for the muse to get work done, perfectly illustrates the situation.
It is hard to deny that there are times that I wait for the muse to come to start getting work done. The waiting game gets worse when there are lots of things to get done and the stress is trying to kill the creativity. However, that stubborn muse insist on not coming at those times. It just does not come by itself without any real invitation and turns out waiting is not a real invitation.
