Category: General

With the recent revelation that MySpace is out to eat the world, some geekity geeks offer some well-thought skepticism: Unless research firms of all stripes disclose the data they use to conduct their analyses (along with their methodologies and tools) taking the ‘facts’ of these reports — or the subsequent retorts — at face value […]

I’m posting this post to grab anybody searching for geneaology on the Wibbels, Wibbles or Wubbels family tree. My uncle Ron has done all the geneaology for the branch of the family tree that I’m on so just shoot me an email if you want me to foward your info to my uncle Ron. I […]

TypePad’s blog has announced that they no have embedded support for Technorati tagging. Here’s the knowledgebase article on it. Still confused about tags? Read What is Tagging? What’s a Folkosonomy?

AdWords users will now see a list of ‘invalid clicks’ for their AdWords accounts when they login. Details at the Inside AdWords blog.

As grocery stores cut costs and remove staff, they implement more and more self-checkout lines. I love this – even though the enroachment of self-service everything is gradually increasing. But now the grocers find that self-checkout users are not impulse buying – and they are losing money. The impulse displays have not caught up to […]

She chose to use her first and last names for the domain (just as I own larryseltzer.com) and checked it on at least one service for availability. She went back in a day or two to register it and, lo and behold, it had just been registered to an outfit named Chesterton Holdings. Don’t search […]

I love when I learn a new term: Domain registrations have “a five-day period in which a registrar may delete a just-registered domain and get a refund of the registry fee. Speculators have figured out how to use this feature to register domains, publish them with many advertising links, and then evaluate which are promising […]

This is old old old news but I forgot to add it here – Jeremy gave his diagnosis of the implementation of the nofollow attribute to links in blogs. Nofollow has done … nothing. Comment spam? Thicker than ever. Its had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. Thats probably because comment spammers dont […]

ReadWriteWeb takes a shot at articulating the next generation of search technology: First-generation search ranked sites based on page content – examples are early yahoo.com and Alta Vista. Second-generation relies on link analysis for ranking – so they take the structure of the Web into account. Examples are Google and Overture. Third-generation search technologies are […]

How do you roll out a new polical paradigm? How do you manage PR when the product is a certain, distinct worldview? Well, one you have it appear with a book launch – and then you start the ball rolling… I’m keeping my political leanings to the personal blog – but I find fascinating the […]