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Daily Brief, February 8th 2010, Afternoon Edition

David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash […]

Daily Brief, February 6th 2010, Weekend Edition

Joanna Smith Rakoff describes her experience as an assistant at Harold Ober Associates, JD. Salinger’s publisher. Ultimately one of her roles ended up being a gatekeeper of Salinger’s personal life by replying to the many letters addressed to the author. Opera 10.5 snapshot build 9240 re-adds support for the W3C Geolocation API, reenables Opera Unite and […]

Google Counts Considered Harmful

Language Log has what can be considered the definitive look into whether or not Google query results counts are meaningless for social language research. Language Log has also posted several other entries on this topic worth reading: Googlinguistics: the good, the bad, and the ugly Google recall (They stole his mind,now he wants it back.) More arithmetic problems at Google […]