{"id":1881,"date":"2004-03-16T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T05:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/16\/1881.html"},"modified":"2004-03-16T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T05:29:02","slug":"research-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/16\/research-vacuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Research vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/technology\/newswire\/2004\/03\/14\/rtr1298045.html\">Reuters article at forbes.com<\/a> about some new search-related software.  The article isn't very clear about what the software is or does (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onfolio.com\/\">Onfolio site<\/a> does a better job of that), but I was amused at my misreading of some of the phrasing in the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company's software acts as a research vacuum....<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect that by \"acts as a research vacuum\" the article's author meant \"is analogous to a vacuum cleaner, in that it sucks in information.\"  But my initial reading was that it acts like a vacuum of the sort nature abhors, a kind of negative information space, causing research to flow into it to fill the hole.<\/p>\n<p>And then:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"Heavy Internet users are searching for and finding dozens, even hundreds of things a day,\" J.J. Allaire, Onfolio's chief executive and co-founder, said in an interview.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course he means that an individual user might search for dozens or hundreds of things a day, but I initially read that as indicating that the entire group of heavy Internet users were collectively searching for as many as hundreds of things a day.<\/p>\n<p>They shouldn't let me read news.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey, I just noticed the name attached to that second quote.  \"J.J. Allaire\" is, of course, better known as the founder of a company named Allaire, which Macromedia bought a few years back.  They were the makers of ColdFusion and HomeSite, among other things.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Reuters article at forbes.com about some new search-related software. The article isn&#8217;t very clear about what the software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}