I was searching for information about Grand Anicut and obviously this is the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Anicut
I wanted to know more about the King built it and reached here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karikala_Chola
Read both and draw your own conclusions.
This is one of the problems I face whenever I go to India. Accuracy of information is not regarded very highly.
Wish you all a happy Onam
As you can see from the image, twitter is suggesting that I follow Charlie Sheen. It doesn’t say why I should follow him. Do I know him? Well, I don’t watch TV, let alone Charlie Sheen. I have seen a few of his movies. I do not have any kind of opinion about him. Good or bad. He was an average actor, good enough for the roles he portrayed. Beyond that I have no interest in what he says, believes or does.
This incident brings up the question of algorithms used by many web sites for suggestions. It may be working for the masses but most of the time they just annoy me.
I have two very simple examples of suggestions from Netflix and Pandora. These are not the only ones I noticed, but I will refrain from listing more complex but futile ones.
So far I have accepted less than 1% of movies or shows suggested by Netflix. I completely don’t get it. If you think I liked movie with Charlie Sheen it, it doesn’t mean that I am going to like every Charlie Sheen movie. That would be an easy search for myself. Don’t need to spend a lot money to come up with those suggestions.
On Pandora I have noticed that most of the similar artists are artists who had a track on the same CD. That’s gross. That is like saying all artists in the same genre are alike.
The Independent Center for Privacy Protection in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has asked local websites to remove their Facebook Pages and remove any Like buttons on their websites.
I almost never click on Facebook ‘Like’ links on websites. I do on videos and photos and comments posted by my friends on Facebook itself. I have liked a few pages that I know as well. The reason I don’t click on every ‘Like’ button is my concern about privacy. Most people don’t think their privacy is compromised when they click on those ‘Like’ buttons. They are not aware of what those clicks are used for other than expressing their ‘Like’ for what they read. Even if the websites and Facebook make it clear what they are used for, most people won’t pay attention and many won’t understand the implications, if there are any.
Is it right for the state to intervene and try to protect? What about people who know what they are doing? In this particular case, there may not be much benefit to the end user who clicks the like button. Most of us probably won’t feel enraged by the action of a state in this case.
As in other cases, this is a slow build up. Just like how it happened with video games in Germany and Australia.