Questions Raised Over JonBenet Confession 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

Karr claims he drugged JonBenet and then had sex with the child, but an autopsy said a blood screening showed no drugs or alcohol in the child’s body. Also, while Karr reportedly claims to have sexually assaulted JonBenet, no semen was found on her body. However, the little girl did have small vaginal abrasions.

Karr’s ex-wife, Lara Karr, who divorced him in 2001, told KGO-TV in San Francisco that during the 1996 Christmas season, when JonBenet Ramsey was strangled and beaten to death in Colorado, she and her then-husband were living in Alabama – and that she was with him the entire season.

A Thai police official said Karr told Thai interrogators that he picked up JonBenet at her school and brought her to the basement the day she was killed, Dec. 26, 1996, the day after Christmas – a highly unlikely scenario.

DNA was found beneath JonBenet’s fingernails and inside her underwear, but Wood said two years ago that detectives were unable to match it to anyone in an FBI database. It was not known whether investigators had any DNA evidence against Karr, despite serving time in a California jail in 2001 on child pornography charges.

CBS News 48 Hours correspondent Erin Moriarty reports that investigators may have arrested Karr this week not because they had definitive evidence linking him to the Ramsey murder, but because they feared he might hurt a child in Thailand.

Questions Raised Over JonBenet Confession – topix.net

2006/8/19 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

I have come to avoid talking about this stuff with people. The first question anyone asks me is “what is Web 2.0?” Unfortunately for the ensuing conversation, it’s a little tricky to provide a straight answer. Every time you find a neat expression for summing the whole Web 2.0 thing up, I immediately think of an exception, or three, or ways that the definition doesn’t really get us anywhere.
10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings – TwoPointOuch via digg

書いたのはIan DelaneyというLondonに住むジャーナリスト。上記の通り、定義するたびに例外が見つかるので単なるリスティングや礼賛にはなっていない。その意味で正直な良いエントリ。

  1. The wisdom of crowds
    But the whole idea does not apply to Google Maps, or any of the other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) crowd e.g. Basecamp, Writely, 30boxes, etc., which are nonetheless thought of as being Web 2.0.

  2. Shared Web Applications
    And if I allow that, then almost any web site becomes an application.

  3. Web as platform
    Are message boards and usenet Web 2.0? Most people would say not. Too broad.

  4. User Participation
    Again, it’s rather too broad, so it could equally apply to message boards, but also too narrow in a different way, since it misses the SaaS sites.

  5. Rich User Experience
    Also, the presence of an AJAX-enhanced shopping cart on an etailer site doesn’t really capture what people mean by Web 2.0. Dell.com, for example, has had a ‘live’ shopping cart for years. It’s a good cart, but Web 2.0?

  6. Marketing Buzzword
    I do agree, incidentally, that Web 2.0 has become a marketing buzzword, it’s just that I think that it’s also more than that.

  7. Data is the next Intel Inside
    There’s two problems here: (a) data management isn’t quite such a sexy idea as people would want and (b) a lot of the Web 1.0 companies were also about finding clever ways to use databases e.g. Altavista, Lastminute.com.

  8. Permanent Beta
    But it’s also become a feature of mainstream applications. Windows and MacOS, for example, get new fixes and patches every month. Antivirus programs are updated every day, but they aren’t Web 2.0, are they?
    Most users couldn’t care less, they just want it to work well.

  9. Using the web as it was meant to be used
    it’s a little self-satisfied as a definition and implies we’re reaching an end-point. A lot of the sites described as Web 2.0 have quite clearly got it wrong.

  10. Nothing
    Web 2.0 is still too young as an expression to have reached the point where we have consensus about what it means. It means different things to different people at the moment. It may only be with hindsight that we come to be able to narrow things down enough to be able to say what it was in one sentence.

この人の言うとおり、Web2.0と言われているものは範囲が広くてカッチリした定義が難しい。無理やり定義なんかしなくとも、面白くてためになるサイトがあればどんどん使っていけばいいだけの話という気もするが、そのうち「ウェブにーてんぜろ、ウェブにーてんぜろ」とわめき散らしながらカネをせしめようとする業界ゴロみたいなのが出て来るのが嫌なんだよな。そのとき直ぐに「ンなもんWeb2.0なんかじゃねーよ!!」と言えるよう明確な定義が出来ていると楽なんだが。まぁ中身をしっかり見る、という当たり前のことをきちんとする他はない。つーか、ここに上げられている例外を言えばいいのか。

Quad-Core 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

The processor is named Kentsfield and will host two dual-core Conroe cores on one package. The processor will be beefed up, increasing its L2 cache from 4MB to 8MB, which will serve to make multi-tasking much more seamless.
Quad-core is On the Way – CruchGear via digg

コア4つとか言われてもピンと来ない。つーか、コアって何だか分かってないしw
まぁいずれ店頭に並ぶ日が来るんでしょう。

LEGOでN.Y.を再現 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

Stephen Colbert’s Tips for Protecting Your Online Identity 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

Stephen Colbert が説くオンライン・セキュリティw

Stephen Colbert's Tips for Protecting Your Online Identity

Stephen Colbert offers some tips to protect viewers from identity theft while using the internet.
Stephen Colbert’s Tips for Protecting Your Online Identity – Youtube

脅威の歌唱力 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

第2のwhitney houstonか!?
かわいらしい普通の女の子が歌いだした途端に一変、とんでもない歌唱力を披露。とにかく声量が並ではない!!

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感嘆のあまり思わず立ち上がる審査員。

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Bianca Ryan’s singing totally blew me off. Comments from the judges at America’s Got Talent such as ‘You are my favourite contestant’ is enough to show how good this girl is. Encore!
Amazing Eleven Year Old Singing – XenVideo via HEMMYNET.com

まだ11歳だそう。
まさにAmerica’s Got Talent。

公式サイト
Qoogle Video

あれっ? 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 

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終わったか、このBuzzWord。

The WorldTV Internet TV Charts 土曜日, 8月 19 2006 


The Internet TV charts tracks the most popular online video clips each week from four leading Internet TV sites. All the best video clips, on one page.
The WorldTV Internet TV Charts via lifehacker