http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/ A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com) en Copyright 2008 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:46:14 -0400 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss What kinds of news stories stir up liberals? What kind thrill the conservatives? Those questions likely won't be definitively answered soon, at least not by humans. But a team of Microsoft researchers, specialists in natural language processing and machine learning, has been trying to resolve them using the Web. The... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/red_blog_blue_blog.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/red_blog_blue_blog.html Peter Whoriskey Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:46:14 -0400 While YouTube.com has garnered millions of users around the world, not everyone has been thrilled about the picture quality. Sometimes it's grainy, or dark, or blurry. Some advertisers have shied away. And some film-makers have protested. But the quality is changing. Quietly this week, the company began experimenting - on... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/youtube_works_on_higher_qualti.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/youtube_works_on_higher_qualti.html Peter Whoriskey Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:17:08 -0400 The phrase that stays with me is "strategic dismemberment." It was meant in a good way. We're talking about a video game here, not human rights violations, and Alex Charlow, a youngish marketer for mega game-maker Electronic Arts, was describing a feature of a yet-to-be-released game known as "Dead Space".... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/at_electronic_arts_art_tries_t.html http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2008/03/at_electronic_arts_art_tries_t.html Peter Whoriskey Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:05:13 -0400