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About Jason

Jason R. Koepke is Founder and Data Strategist at GNT LLC, a risk-analysis and data strategy firm that provides analytical and technical services to the public and private sectors. His work and research has been featured in the academic, financial, and technical industries.

Album Reviews

1—–>3—->5
Terrible—>Fantastic

5
From Monument to Masses – Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps, The

4
Badu, Erykah – New Amerykah Part One
Freur – Doot Doot
Hazard – Machete Bass EP
High Contrast – a bunch of singles and EPs
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Immortal Technique – Third World, The
Joplin, Scott – Take Me to the Land of Jazz
Kasabian – Empire
Kasabian – Kasabian
Mahal, Taj and Ry Cooder – Rising Sons
Mixel Pixel – Contact Kid
Rother, Anthony – Elixir of Love

3
Albert, Herb & The Tijuana Brass – Remixes of Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Beck – Modern Guilt
Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
Bug, The – Pressure
Caspa and Rusko – Fabriclive 37
Distinction – After Life
High Contrast – Angles and Fly
High Contrast – NHS116
Pekler, Andrew – Cue

2
Flobots – Fight with Tools
Fontana, Lenny – Spread Love
High Contrast vs Calibre – NHS125P
Khan – Who Never REsts
Ladytron – Velocifero
Landslide – a bunch of singles and EPs
Logistics – a bunch of singles and EPs
Tobin, Amon – Solid Steel Presents Amon Tobin
Tomahawk – Hospital Mix, Volume 02

1

Album Reviews

1——->3——>5
Terrible—–>Fantastic

5
Hancock, Herbie – VSOP The Quintet

4
Byrd, Danny – Changes
Dagga – Laughing Gas
Parker, Charlie – Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, The
V/A – Pressed for Sound (pehr sampler cd)
Rice, Tim and Andrew Lloyd Webber – Jesus Christ Superstar
Wiley – Grime Wave
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps Single

3
Byrd, Danny – Doghill
Byrd, Danny – Medical History
Byrd, Danny – Soul Friction
Cyantific – All Points West
Cyantific – Be True
Cyantific – Cyantific 2005
Cyantific – Cyantific 2007
Cyantific – Flashback
Cyantific – Ghetto Blaster
Cyantific – Hospital Mix, Volume 04
Cyantific – Little Green Men
Cyantific – Outpu
Francis, Sage – Human The Death Dance
O, Karen – At Home
Peas – Filters
Roots, The – Rising Down
Strange Fruit Project, The – From Divine
Subtle – Exiting Arm

2
Delta – Submerged
Byrd, Danny – Do It Again
Girl Talk – Feed The Animals

1
V/A – Industrial COnfusion, Strike 3 Cleopatra Recs Comp
Kano – MC No. 1
V/A – Nujazz Sessions 2 (Groovy Gravy Recs Comp)
V/A – Reinterpretations Inspired by the Works of Kitaro
V/A – Rocky Horror Punk Show, The (Springman Recs Comp)

Search Index as the Web (Alternative Conceptualizations of the Internet)

The Register has a great piece on Cuil‘s launch, its impact on Google, and what the Web really is these days. While I don’t completely agree with the article’s point, thinking of the Web not as the culmination of linked documents but as The Index (i.e., search engine handling of the Web) is interesting and useful. Here are some of the key points from the article (“Spammers, Cuil, and the rescue from planet Google”):

With a little thought, Cuil not being as good as Google at finding what we want online is the least surprising piece of news since people familiar with the situation said JPII was partial to fish on a Friday. In 2008, Mountain View’s all-seeing algorithms in many ways are the web.

It’s easy to identify what happened. When it first surfaced in 1998, Google made sense of the web a bit better than anyone else. It was a useful improvement on existing services. Ten years later, the web does its best to make sense of Google.

The sorry upshot is that barring some unimaginable technological leap no search engine’s results will ever be better than Google’s, at least in the West. And the switch leaves the likes of Microsoft and Cuil (and a dozen other doomed start-ups) effectively attempting to reverse-engineer Google, not understand the information on the web.

The people at the vanguard of reverse-engineering Google are not its jealous search rivals. They’re the spammers and SEO consultants. They have driven an ever-closer relationship between the quirks and whims of Google’s algorithms and policies, and the structure and content of the web. It’s a feedback loop that was unavoidable once Google’s early rivals proved unable to respond to its better search results and presentation.