Sinikka has posted a very thought-provoking piece (“CCK08 – random connections of today“) in which, using the analogy of Andy Warhol’s painting of Marilyn Monroe, she grapples with the “significance of nodes”, knowledge and context, and what appears to be randomness of connections, saying:
“…the Andy Warhol method of multiplying the same image over and over again with varying colours to create a piece of pop art made me think of all the blogs of this course. I have seen many summaries, mind maps, and other representations of this week’s readings …

This just in by way of ReadWriteWeb, Google has recently announced the release of a new Labs tool  – known as GAUDI, or Google Audio Indexing – that enables you to perform text searches of the audio content featured in video clips.
Think about that for a moment. This is not to be confused with searching the text-based descriptions of the videos, but the audio tracks themselves.
As the Official Google Blog explains (“In their own words”: political videos meet Google speech-to-text technology):
“With the help of our speech recognition technologies, videos …