Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Web Spiders
This technology is an example that we are clearly in a time when "everything can be tracked".
On the other hand, some of my other posts show that "everything can also be manipulated".
It serves truth to the theory that every invention can be used for good; or for evil, which brings us right back to the intentions of the user...
On the other hand, some of my other posts show that "everything can also be manipulated".
It serves truth to the theory that every invention can be used for good; or for evil, which brings us right back to the intentions of the user...
On the Wired.com blog, Sarah Lai Stirland reports:
"The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign website to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly basis.
John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista.
The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and cache changes to specific web pages up to an hourly basis, depending on the level of filtering requested, says Peter Bray, its creator in Portland, Oregon."
