The Drill Down 121 – A Punctuation For Sarcasm. Terrific!…/s
This week the guys discuss Google’s updated maps for Haiti, a Microsoft security flaw that compromised Google in China, YouTube charges for movie rentals with an updated interface, Apple’s (allegedly) upcoming tablet, the ongoing Twitterfication of Facebook & Digg, Bill Gates on Twitter, Twitter revamps its Suggested User List, Conan O’Brien’s farewell to NBC, the Playstation 3 gets hacked after three years, and just what the world really needs (/s)…a new punctuation mark for sarcasm.
Show Links
- Satellite Images Of Haiti Earthquake From Google & Bing Maps
- Microsoft admits IE flaw caused Google hack
- Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows bug
- SarcMark inventors make thousands from sarcasm punctuation mark in first week
- YouTube to charge $5 for some videos
- Meet The New YouTube: Less Clutter, Easier Search, And No More Stars
- Windows 7 growing faster than Vista, overtakes Mac OS X
- Broadband Speeds Increase Around the World – But Not in the U.S.
- Apple in talks with Microsoft to make Bing default search engine on the iPhone
- Apple tablet to have books, games, music, TV, will make sandwiches
- Facebook Releases Their Version Of Retweets As Twitterfication Continues
- Bill Gates now on Twitter
- Twitter Revamps Suggested User List, Switches To Categorized Suggestions With No Mass-Following
- Twitter’s Revamped SUL Has Greatly Crippled The SUL Advantage
- Twitter Starts Rolling Out Local Trends
- Drastic’ Digg overhaul could ‘shock’ users, says Kevin Rose
- If Your Password Is 123456, you might as well make it HackMe
- O’Brien seals $45 million deal to quit ‘Tonight’
- Conan pimps himself out on Craigslist
- Playstation 3 successfully hacked after 3 years
Apologies for only giving negative feedback – I do like the show very much. Lydia will be missed – I'm reminded of the Lydia song in The Fisher King http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/
That said, your discussion of SarcMark was pretty irritating as it lacked any mention of codeset standards ISO 8859 (8-bit ASCII) and Unicode.
SarcMark should have “overloaded” existing punctuation glyphs and done this as a “single glyph drop-in” or some other trick which would make some sense as far as character encodings.
For example, they could have said that the two-character combination of upside-down exclam and question mark would be automatically recognized as the “overloaded” new SarcMark glyph. Not everyone has experience with internationalization issues, which is fine, but you should stay away from topics that betray a lack of hard-core geek cred. You did pretty well dancing around the main issue – that they are decades too late, and they are selling at best a special one-symbol font, or graphic, which has zero meaning to existing text processing code.
-Richard