Where am I wasting time today?

Rescue time is now measuring the amount of time I spend at non-work websites accurately, and sending me reminders when I dally too long. Even better, I have actually closed time-wasting sites as a result of these reminders.

The Stupid Filter

These guys are designing a filter, based on Beyesian spam filters, to weed out stupid comments. As they emphasize in their FAQ, they are only looking at comments that are formally stupid, "The idea is that the most egregiously stupid comments will also be the easiest to detect while remaining ignorant of context; comments with too much or too little capitalization, too many text-message abbreviations, excessive use of "LOL," exclamation points, and so on."

Do you think they will have an Angel plug-in? I could use it, not as a simple insult to students, but a "teachable moment."

Citizendium

Citizendium is a new encyclopedia designed to be like wikipedia, but more friendly to expert knowledge. It was founded by Larry Sanger, the co-founder of wikipedia, who is also (I did not know this) a philosopher.

Noesis

Noesis, the limited area search engine for academic philosophy, is back on line, now in partnership with Google.

Update: Episteme links also has some customized philosophy search engines.