O'Reilly Radar > Database War Stories #2: bloglines and memeorandum: "In Monday's installment, Cory Ondrejka of Second Life said 'flat files don't cut it', but Mark Fletcher of bloglines and Gabe Rivera of memeorandum.com apparently don't agree.
Gabe wrote: 'I didn't bother with databases because I didn't need the added complexity... I maintain the full text and metadata for thousands of articles and blog posts in core. Tech.memeorandum occupies about 600M of core. Not huge.'
Mark wrote: 'The 1.4 billion blog posts we've archived since we went on-line are stored in a data storage system that we wrote ourselves. This system is based on flat files that are replicated across multiple machines, somewhat like the system outlined in the Google File System paper.'"
I have been assigned to do a comparison and recommendation of
Java Logging Frameworks. As I was looking on Wikipedia, there wasn't an atricle on that subjects, so I started one. I am now a contributor to Wikipedia.
There is a new concept website,
Don't Click It. Which I found interesting. Its an entire website dedicate to the proposition that clicking the mouse is not necessary. Instead, things like just moving the mouse over the link activates it or some gesture like drawing a circle around it activates the button.
I must say I started to like it after a while. Once I got used to things happening so fast. There do seem to be a couple of drawbacks. First, there is no scrolling, all content has to fit into a page. Second, can we get rid of the mouse completely?
Check it out.
Networks Sue Over Indecency Rulings: "The four major television networks and more than 800 affiliated stations have sued to overturn recent indecency rulings from the Federal Communications Commission, saying the government 'overstepped its authority' in the March judgments.
The lawsuits -- filed in several federal courts around the country by ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, their affiliate stations and the Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. chain Thursday and yesterday -- could become the test case long awaited by broadcasters who seek to challenge the government's ability to police the airwaves, the broadcasters acknowledge privately."
If you are dismayed at what is now shown on television, today is the day to take a stance.
Parents Television Council Action Center: "The airwaves belong to the American people and broadcasters 'borrow' them for free in return for a promise to promote the public interest. The networks have not upheld their end of the bargain -- and now they are actually going to court to sue for the 'right' to use the public airwaves to broadcast indecent material into millions of American homes.
That's why we urgently need your action. We need to demand that Congress give the FCC the authority to impose meaningful fines. Right now the FCC can only fine stations a maximum of $32,500 -- a meaningless slap on the wrist for the multi-billion dollar media companies. To put this figure in perspective: the FCC imposed the maximum fine allowed by law against CBS for the Super Bowl halftime show in which Janet Jackson exposed her breast. But CBS made that money back in just seven seconds during the 2005 Super Bowl. Each 30-second ad brought the network $2.4 million last year."
