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I've been chatting up heavy the business of power utility "Demand Response" lately here at www.CultureKitchen.com .

This is where the utility will be able to cut power to AC via automatic control if there are dangers of the Electric Grid going unstable during peak loads.

(Heat waves)

This conversation ends up heavy with key words like HVAC energy etc etc.

Thanks to Google's search technology, AI and on going screening of web content they can then post "targeted ads"

For example from last night:

Now take for example, the same key word sensitive Advertising now running on MySpace with 145,000,000 accounts and 400,000 to 600,000 blogs posted daily.

That's a lot of keyword sensitive oversight, and a lot of computing horsepower.

Now, if it were national security issues we were worried about.....

How hard does anyone think it is to automatically and with a little AI tossed in for sorting

watch for key words like "Assassinate the President"

?

Does it make you think? It does me.

George W. Bush says he uses "The Google" :

BUSH: Occasionally. One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see — I’ve forgot the name of the program — but you get the satellite, and you can — like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes.

Well, I use "The Google" I lot too. Let's say I have a love and hate relationship with the Google. Speaking of which, the program Shrub was referring to is Google Earth. As you can see by the screenshot, Google Earth will be tracking all the midterm elections on their map.

If you want to play along, you have to download their software. Go check it out.

The Carnival of the Feminists is up at I See Invisible People | Carnival of Feminists XIII. Lorraine submitted her article, I am failing my race.

First off, I think carnivals are a great way to condense every months what's happening around the different blogospheres that are popping like corn all over the web. But by the way they have been developed, I have never felt they actually are that effective after the carnival is done.

Here's my reasons why :

I refuse to give The New York Times the hard earned Google juice and page rank I have earned with my blogs. When I checked out their new design I noticed their "Most blogged" box linking to .... no blogs. Excuse me? How can you know it is most blogged if you don't show who is blogging to you in the first place?

Well, I'm glad I am not the only one who noticed.

[via New York Times faux "most blogged" list -- what a bunch of leeches. - The Jason Calacanis Weblog]:

Just when you think the NYT is starting to get it they create a "Most Blogged" list *without* the back up data of who's blogging the stories!!!

Come on NYT... would it kill you to link to a blog!??!?!?!

Let me get this straight: you'll mine the data from the blogosphere to make your list, but you won't reward the blogosphere by linking back?!?!?!

That makes you a bunch of leeches--you take but you give nothing.

You see, the more we link to them, the not only the more traffic the get, but the higher in Google ranking they will be. And that is worth money. A. LOT. OF. MONEY. Jason Calacanis knows this. That's why he calls them leeches.

So boo to them.

Washington Post, on the other hand ... Thanks to Technorati, they get my heart-felt, "Yeah!"

Sure, they effed up royally with Ben Domenech, but at least they acknowledge the existence of blogs ... most importantly my blogs.

Other blog friendly publications?

Yup. I was researching fake pro-abortion websites when I found that Abortion Freedom sometimes gives you The New Civil War : South Dakota bans abortion | culturekitchen as the #1 choice. Over Planned Parenthood, NARAL and Feminist Women's Health Center ... that is, as long as you don't have the Google censorware turned on. And not all the time, mind you.

Still...

From the standpoint of a blogger, Google is the most important ideological battleground. Folksonomies and taxonomies are some of our most important political tools.

So pat yourselves on the back. because when a lucky kid is using the largest library in the world, using it's most popular liberian as her guide, you know who's gonna be up there.

When it comes to technology companies, especially Google, I take their "benefit to mankind" with a huge boulder of salt; especially with my current experience with GoogleNews. They dropped culturekitchen from their rotation because it was not "newsy" enough. Meanwhile, they go out of their way to include such beacons of truthiness like LifeNews, ScienceDaily and my all time favorite, Men's News Daily.

Seth Finkelstein is the man I read daily for all things truthy about Google. I thought I was paranoid about the run around the search company has been giving me since December --basically, since the site was switched to a new platform. Then I read his post, British national Party and Google News. Real eye-opener in view of the next two kerfuffles involving Google in the last month.

The first one being the alleged "fight for privacy rights" that many netopians claim is what behind Google's fight to not release query information to the Justice Department. Yeah, right. They are fighting for the right to privacy but not of the regular citizen :

My name is Liza, and I ... I ... I am voogle addict.

I went looking the clip where Isaac Mizrahi molests Scarlett Johanson's boobies and for some reason I ended up seeing a bunch of Danish clips and this one caught my eye :

Jens and Anders (sounds like an Ingmar Bergman movie) are spoofing a Backstreet Boys video ... but ... but ... their spoofing a voogled spoof done by two guys only described as two Asian college guys. May I add they are hysterical :

When I said Video Google is going to be, I meant it just because of this. This is one of those baby steps we will need to take to make the web a truly diverse and viable multi-media platform.

What we need now is a non-proprietary, open-source version of Google video widget.

Google Video still is a good start.

This spells the death to TV as we know it because the internet is for porn and not just of the sex kind.
This is total postmodern, prosumer media porn!

And there is even a HAMSTER DANCE!!!!!!!

OHMYFUCKINGBLOGICANTBELIEVETHERE'SANEWHAMSTERDANCE!!!!

To those who have not been around the web since forever like old geezers like me and Jason, Hamster Dance was to the web back in 1995 what it would be to a teenager to drop acid, smoke weed and eat 'shrooms all at the same time.

People loved to hate that site. So much, and this will tell you how way back this goes to, the guy that coded Greymatter, the first open-source and free blogging software I knew of, created a satanic version of the site, Satanic Hamster Dance.

Hamster Dance was reviled but groundbreaking because it proved that the net was an alternative space for moving pictures. Animated GIFs became the basis for many a crappy 'net art' project but, by blog, people where all over PERL and Javascript to see how they could push the form. Weirdos like the father of my kids pushed the limits with JAVA. Do any of my techie readers remember the collective orgasms over Macromedia Flash? Does anybody remember how Joshua Davis acquired semi-god status with PrayStation and his flash projects?

I am so getting old.

Jason, you are so right, this video thing is gonna be really big.

The Daily Show is already proving TV shows have an alternative life on the net.

This is just the beginning.