21st
January
2000
Scott McCloud: “In 1993, I published a book titled UNDERSTANDING COMICS. It was revolutionary, because it, for the first time except for the other books that preceded it, examined comics as a form, and what comics mean and why, and there was some stuff in there about the Aztecs, too. THEY knew how to support their cartoonists. The editors back then were very strict, though. A simple misplaced Snake God could get you eviscerated and your whole temple wall cancelled. One of the things I set out to do with that book was DEFINE comics. What IS Comics, I asked a lot of people? One guy stabbed me with a pen.”
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21st
January
2000
“Inktomi and the NEC Research Institute, Inc. have completed a new study that verifies the Web has grown to more than one billion unique pages. This milestone for the Internet comes as an outgrowth of Inktomi’s global Web crawling operations, and the new expanded database represents the industry’s largest catalog of unique Web pages. Read the press release. Inktomi has been crawling the Web over the past 4 months using a 100 MB/sec ethernet connection to build the WebMap database. All URLs in this database have the host names canonicalized. We also analyze certain properties of each page: for example rich media files, pornographic content, and search-engine spoofing.”
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21st
January
2000
“Here are the Top 50 Digital Media Web sites and properties for the month of December 1999 ranked by unique audience according to Media Metrix. These rankings include home and work access.”
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21st
January
2000
“There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear he might be one of them. Dr. Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent. On the contrary. People who do things badly, Dr. Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities — more confident, in fact, than people who do things well.”
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21st
January
2000
“The world’s largest collection of digital map images for graphic design professionals… Digital map clip art of world, globe, continent, United States and major USA and world city maps.”
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21st
January
2000
“ditto.com is the leader in visual search. ditto.com’s core focus is providing pictures as a fun, fast and effective way to find the information users are looking for on the web. Now that the web is filled with sights and sounds, searching by text alone really isn’t adequate. ditto.com provides a valuable search service through the indexing of millions of pictures on the web. ditto.com applies proprietary search technology to evaluate the pictures in its picture index, and ditto adds a quality layer of human editorial oversight to return high-quality, useful, non-objectionable picture-based results from the web.”
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