John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation. And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts.

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Collaboration 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Your on the job contributions in collaborative environments are much more protected than elsewhere digitally, but getting credit for ideas is critical to continued use pattterns

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 31, 2012

In my previous entry , I provided information pertaining to the amount of data that can be stored in a LOB column of a mainframe DB2 table (LOBs being DB2 data values that can exceed 32 KB in length). I made brief references in that entry to significant enhancements in LOB data management capabilities delivered via DB2 10 for z/OS. I'll describe those enhancements -- the most significant since LOB support was introduced with DB2 Version 6 -- in a multi-part entry, of which this is part 1.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (the “MIIT”) recently issued a regulation entitled “Several Provisions on Regulating Market Orders of Internet Information Services” (the “New Regulations”). The New Regulations, which will take effect on March 15, 2012, include significant new data protection requirements applicable to Internet information service providers (“IISPs”).

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Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I had the news on in the background while performing morning ablutions. It was tuned to CBS This Morning – Charlie Rose has recently joined the lineup and my wife, a former news producer, favors both Rose and the Tiffany Network. But the piece that was running as I washed the sleep from my eyes was simply unbelievable. It was about the two unfortunate british tourists detained by Homeland Security over jokes on Twitter about “destroying America” (a colloquialism for partying &#

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) was enacted in December 2010. Heard about it? It’s quite likely that you have, given its […].

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In recent weeks, regulators in California and Illinois have issued guidance on responding to data security breaches, while UK and California authorities released online forms for organizations to use when providing notification of a breach to regulators. In December 2011, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released a new breach notification form , reinforcing its expectation that organizations provide notification whether or not such notification is legally required.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Not since Google’s 2004 filing have so many journalists sped-read one document at the same time, eager to glean any possible insight unique to their particular point of view or publication and rush to post it before anyone else. Yes, I’m one of those journalists, I suppose, but I know I have to read this thing for any number of reasons, so I may as well use the race as an excuse to force myself into action.

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Scary Beasts Security

JANUARY 28, 2012

Here's a curiousity that's developing in modern browser security: The security of a given browser is dominated by how much effort it puts into other peoples' problems. This may sound absurd at first but we're heading towards a world where the main browsers will have (with a few notable exceptions): Rapid autoupdate to fix security issues. Some form of sandboxing.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I promise, for at least 18 months, to not bring this topic up again. But I do feel the need to report to all you RSS lovin’ freaks out there that the combined interactions on my two posts – 680 and still counting – have exceeded the reach of my RSS feed (which clocked in at a miserable 664 the day I posted the first missive). And as I said in my original post: If I get more comments and tweets on this post than I have “reach” by Google Feedburner status, well, that’s enough f

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 30, 2012

Since I posted my call to action last week, nearly 600 folks have raised their hands and told me they’re reading this site via RSS. That’s pretty good, given my actual request was buried under 500 words of rambling conjecture, and my Disqus commenting system went down for portions of the first day. Not to mention, my RSS feed has grown by about 90% since the last time I posted the request, yet the number of comments (plus Tweets and other responses) was three times higher.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

You know you want your very own Facebook S1 as a PDF document, right? If so, click this link, and it’s yours! Facebook S-1.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As reported in the Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives Blog , last week, the NLRB’s Acting General Counsel, Lafe Solomon, released a second report containing guidance relating to employee use of social media. This report comes less than six months after the release of the NLRB’s first report on the subject in August 2011. Like the August report , the new release summarizes a number of recent cases decided by the NLRB in which an employee was terminated at least in part because of his or h

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Throughout 2011, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) escalated its use of data protection audits, encouraging organizations to submit to voluntary audits and seeking to increase its ability to conduct compulsory audits. Currently, the ICO has the authority to compel central government departments to undergo audits, but it would like to extend compulsory audits to include local government, the national health service and the private sector.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 31, 2012

On January 25, 2012, the European Commission released a data protection law reform package , including its proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”). The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has reacted positively to the Proposed Regulation, in particular commending efforts to strengthen the rights of individuals, the recognition of important privacy concepts such as privacy by design and privacy impact assessments, and new accountability requirements to ens

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of only two photos to emerge from last night's Wilco concert, image Eric Henegen. Last night my wife and I did something quite rare – we went to a concert on a Sunday night, in San Francisco, with three other couples (Wilco, playing at The Warfield). If you don’t have kids and don’t live in the suburbs, you probably think we’re pretty lame, and I suppose compared to city dwellers, we most certainly are.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After pushing my way through a number of difficult but important reads, it was a pleasure to rip through Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From: A Natural History of Innovation. I consider Steven a friend and colleague, and that will color my review of his most recent work (it came out in paperback last Fall). In short, I really liked the book.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

On January 26, 2012, the German Data Protection Commissioners (“DPAs”) of the federal states Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse held a joint press conference to present their views on the European Commission’s legislative proposal for a comprehensive reform of current EU data protection rules. The day before, the European Commission proposed replacing the existing EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC with a Regulation that would be directly applicable in all European Member States and therefore not

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