John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The post At Google Zeitgeist: Theoretical Physics and Astronauts, Unite! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Earlier in the week I traveled to the annual Google Zeitgest conference, where I’ve been honored to be a moderator for the past few years. This year I was given the challenge of tacking a 90-minute block on “The World We Dream,” which featured an extraordinary set of speakers.

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Collaboration 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2012

'Social' SaaS and holiday timeshare sales pitches are alarmingly similar. Don't believe the hype: focus on where you need to go and what you'll digitally need to get there.

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Robert's Db2

OCTOBER 14, 2012

If your answer to the question posed in the title of this blog entry is, "In a PORT reservation statement in our z/OS LPAR's TCP/IP profile data set," that's NOT what I want to hear. It's true that for a long time this was the standard way to assign an IP address to a DB2 for z/OS subsystem, and it would look something like this: PORT 446 TCP DBP1DIST BIND 111.222.333.444 ; DRDA SQL PORT FOR DBP1 This was the way to go because DB2 didn't give you much of a choice in this regard.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 17, 2012

On October 15, 2012, the Singapore Parliament passed the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. Though a law has been under discussion for quite some time, this bill was introduced before Parliament only recently, in September of this year. The new law will apply only to data processing in the private sector as data processing by public agencies (or organizations acting on behalf of public agencies) are already subject to internal government rules.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

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

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The post Time To Begin, Again appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Family, colleagues, and friends knew this day was coming, I knew it was coming, but here it is: I’ve rented a new place to write, a small, remote house directly on the beach, about 12 miles as the crow flies from my home in Marin county. It’s not a direct 12 miles – that crow would have to fly up about 2500 feet so as to clear the peak of Mt.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The post OpenCoSF Storified appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday I participated in OpenCoSF. After weeks of preparation, we really had no idea how it was going to turn out, but to judge from the Twitter buzz, it seems folks had a really good time, and the vibe of open collaboration, rapid iteration, and “run with it” mentality really took over.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The post Help Me Stop HubAdverts Dot Com! appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. I’ve been working with my site design partner Blend to try to track down a spammer who has taken my entire site and repurposed it as their own, replete with tons of ads and a clear intent to draft off Searchblog’s quality content (if I do say so myself) and, most likely, its pagerank as well.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 13, 2012

The post OpenCoSF Storified appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Yesterday I participated in OpenCoSF. After weeks of preparation, we really had no idea how it was going to turn out, but to judge from the Twitter buzz, it seems folks had a really good time, and the vibe of open collaboration, rapid iteration, and “run with it” mentality really took over.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 19, 2012

On October 17, 2012, Colombia enacted a new omnibus data protection law known as Ley 1581 del 17 de octubre de 2012 por el cual se dictan disposiciones generales para la protección de datos personales. The law contains significant notice and consent requirements, special provisions for the processing of children’s data, European-style data subject rights ( e.g. , access and correction), special obligations applicable specifically and directly to service providers, a registration requirement and

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Are you old enough to remember Gopher ? It appeared just before the World Wide Web (WWW) was invented and provided a lightweight, text and folder approach to navigating information repositories (hosted on a Gopher server). In an Ars Technica piece , Nate Anderson described Gopher as: "There was no decorative markup for menu pages, which all looked basically (and boringly) the same; on the other hand, gopher was quick and consistent.".

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 18, 2012

On October 15, 2012, Privacy Commissioner of Canada Jennifer Stoddart and the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in Germany, Peter Schaar, signed an agreement to increase intra-authority collaboration between their organizations. The agreement covers the exchange of information between the two data protection authorities, for example by informing each other of pending complaints.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce that five attorneys of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice group have been named as “ The International Who’s Who of Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection Lawyers ” in 2012. They include partners Lisa J. Sotto , Wim Nauwelaerts and Bridget Treacy , Senior Attorney Rosemary Jay and Associate Dr.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 16, 2012

On October 10, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced that consumer reporting agency Equifax Information Services LLC (“Equifax”) and several of its customers, including Direct Lending Source, Inc. (“Direct Lending”), have agreed to pay a combined total of nearly $1.6 million to settle FTC allegations that they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in connection with the sale of data regarding consumers in financial distress.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The post Super Sad True Love Story: A Review appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. In my continuing quest to reflect on books which I have found important to my own work, I give you a work of fiction, first published in mid-2011: Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel , by Gary Shteyngart, an acclaimed writer born in Russia, now living in the US.

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