Simon Willison’s Weblog

Again, a newspaper PDF experiment is fatally flawed. Adrian nails the reason PDF editions will always play second fiddle to the real web. 11:25 am

Wired: The Book Stops Here. Truly excellent, in-depth article on Wikipedia from Wired. 12:04 pm

blo.gs: for sale. Rats. blo.gs powers my blogroll. I hope the API doesn’t go away. 12:06 pm

Adding Persistent Searches to Gmail (via) Brilliant greasemonkey hack. 12:21 pm

Relaxation Ranking Passage Retrieval. Steve Green explains Sun’s passage search technology. 1:20 pm