Monthly Archives: April 2007

Google Reverts to Post-Katrina Imagery

By Michael Becker | Published: April 3, 2007
As an update to a pre­vi­ous entry: the AP reported today that Google has changed its satel­lite imagery of the New Orleans area to show the hur­ri­cane dam­age caused by Katrina. Critics attacked Google last week for dis­play­ing images of an undam­aged city. The com­pany said last week that those images were of bet­ter res­o­lu­tion than [...]
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Copyright Issues

By Michael Becker | Published: April 2, 2007
I flipped over to Copyfight ran­domly today and got turned on to an arti­cle that was pub­lished in February’s Harper’s. The essay, writ­ten jointly by Susan Meiselas and Joy Garnet, deals with the image that has come to be known a “Molotov Man.” To the right, you can see what started the debate. Susan Meiselas [...]
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Too Much Analysis

By Michael Becker | Published: April 2, 2007
Now, I study lit­er­a­ture, so I’m no stranger to crit­i­cal analy­sis, but this is too much. In response to Google’s April Fools Day prank, we have this com­ment pub­lished in the AP arti­cle by Eric Raymond, author of the New Hacker’s Dictionary: “The leit­mo­tif of hacker humor is pre­cise rea­son­ing from utterly bizarre premises, and [...]
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Site Display Issues

By Michael Becker | Published: April 2, 2007
Hmm, not sure why some posts keep get­ting dou­bled. It doesn’t look that way on WordPress’s back-end. Anybody out there have some ideas about why this is so? Edit: I learned that this is an issue with one of the plug-ins I use to main­tain my side­bar. No solu­tion yet exists, and it only hap­pens when [...]
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Ah, Google…

By Michael Becker | Published: April 1, 2007
Well, it’s April Fools Day and Google is at it again. This year, not only does Gmail boast a new “Paper Archive” option that will send you, via USPS, paper copies of all your e-mail mes­sages for you to trash as you please (in the real trash, they point out), but the main Google site [...]
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