Duane Brown

You have a blog. You compose a new post. You click Publish and lean back to admire your work. Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers. Let’s say it’s Super Bowl Sunday and you’re blogging about beer. You see Budweiser’s blockbuster commercial and have a reaction you’d like to share. Thanks to search engines and aggregators that compile lists of interesting posts, you can reach a lot of people — and Budweiser, its competitors, beer lovers, ad critics, and your ex-boyfriend can listen in. “You just need to know how to type,” says Matthew Hurst, an artificial intelligence researcher who studies this ecosystem at Microsoft Live Labs. Here’s how the whole process goes down during the big game.

Check out the link below for the poster. You can zoom in and out and check out what really happens in a visual way.

[Via Wired]

5 unbelievably cool research facilities.. No Seriously! The nerd in me came out.

You can check out other online venues that are featuring this weird but cool little video.

Get your own Mclovin ID

I won some sneak peek passes for last Thursday nights screening of There Will Be Blood. I wasn’t sure what to think going in but I came out shocked and somewhat unsure what to think. The movie starts off great and I want to cheer for the lead character,Daniel Plainview, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. However, by the end of the movie he’s gone crazy mad and you can’t help but dislike him. He also has this one quirk that only gets worse as the movie delves deeper into the story.

I don’t know if this will be the weirdest movie I’ll see all year, but It’s one I won’t forget.

Reviews: NYT, Metcritic, Variety and WorstPreviews

Schmap has included one of my photos in their mapping service.

This is one of my most commented photos on Flickr as well it received a gold award form a Flickr group.

I hope everyone has a great New Year. 2008 is going to be a great year for everyone.

Very cool ad by the guys at DDB.

I went to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts to see The Nutcracker last Wednesday and fell in love. It’s altogether one of the nicest  art venues I’ve been into in a long time. The play was quite nice and I really enjoyed myself more then I thought I would. Will had an equally enjoyable time and wants to go back. A little on the expensive side, but well worth it for a night out with the affluent of Toronto.

I’m so excited for this next summer.

Haven’t seen a web video that made me sit and watch it for more then a few minutes in a long time. Checked out The Story Of Stuff with Annie Leonard or watch the YouTube videos below. Some flaws and bias are present in the video, but still a good watch.

Lifehacker has a great video on this….