links for 2006-10-30

• The Predictive Power of Online Chatter
  The World Wide Web represents a global, timely, and largely unregulated touchstone of popular opinion, which many believe may be exploited for early insights into new trends and opinions. Areas proposed for such analysis include the outcome of political e
  (tags: chat online paper prediction)
• Zero tiers for superfast storage | The Register
  Just when the rest of us were finally getting our heads around the notion of three-tiered storage – fast disk, fat disk and tape – along comes a fourth one. Acopia Networks this week said it’s the first to deliver Tier 0 – superfast storage used as applic
  (tags: storage applications online web tier architecture)
• v-2 Organisation | news | On the failure (or impossibility) of mapping
  I took all of this in, over the course of a quarter-hour. And then I knew, immediately and in my bones, that any project devoted to the Borgesian attempt to map the built environment at even reasonably high resolution is forever doomed to failure, no matt
  (tags: mapping subjectivity temporal physicality)