links for 2006-12-21

by Brian Reich | 21 Dec 2006, 2:00am

• A Search for Ourselves
  Each year, Google, the most popular search engine, releases an annual “zeitgeist” of the search terms that gained the most in usage in 2006, giving the world a peek behind its bare-bones home page and a window into the world’s mind. This year, the top sea
• Filmmakers Face Some Big Challenges On Tiny Cellphones
  The American entertainment industry, a world leader in movie and TV production, is now taking the lead in developing video content for mobile devices, the so-called third screen.
• Search Engines Help Shoppers To Buy Locally
  A new breed of search engine aims to help them figure out which local stores have the goods in stock.
• Cardinal O’Malley to launch podcasts
  A new website for the Archdiocese is coming — and starting early next year, O’Malley also plans to regularly record video messages for downloading from the Internet.
• The Blog Mob
  WSJ assistant editor Joseph Rago says blogs are “Written by fools to be read by imbeciles.”

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