links for 2007-11-06

The company has developed software that identifies an electronic “fingerprint” for a particular piece of material — an article, a picture, a video.

From the transparency desk, here is a weblog from the team working on the re-design of msnbc.com.

Quote – Perhaps what the paper should be doing is not trying to impose its definition of “journalist” on any who receive its dollar but instead rethink that definition themselves.

Conde Nast will fold House & Garden with the December issue and shut down its Web site, houseandgarden.com.

Quote – At a civilian school the hardest part of a football player’s day is football practice. At an academy, the easiest part of a football player’s day is football practice.

A Vanderbilt professor finds that primary-school teachers believe students with fluent handwriting produced written assignments superior in quality and that result in higher grades.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to read the rexblog. However, you apparently need to at least be in high school.