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Silly/Funny YouTube

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“Iterate in the marketplace, not in the conference room”

Chris Herot tells the story of Convoq (which then became Zingdom) from the very beginning to the very end. An interesting chronology, worth reading if you’re thinking of (or are currently) playing the startup game. > “The company former...

What’s happening to Google?

You know I am a fan of Google. But lately I’ve had some conversations which have sensitized me to noticing the quality of Google’s search results. As I’ve written elsewhere, the world of [Search Engine Optimization is all about manipulating Google’s search resu...

“We are the people we have been waiting for.”

Tom Friedman recently had a good column about global warming (“global climate change”) and what is, or should be being done about it, where he quotes the Onion: ““Fall, the long-running series of shorter days and cooler nights, was canceled earlier this week after nearly 3 billion seasons on Earth, ...

Computer Science: Theory and Practice

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software gave an outstanding talk at Yale which he has written up on his blog. For budding Computer Science majors, people getting into the computer world or business, there is a lot of good wisdom to be found here: My favorite passage is the discussion about the valu...

Once more, why dos’t thou blog?

Recently there was a comment to one of my post asking the perennial question that non-bloggers ask of bloggers, (and bloggers ask of themselve all the time too 🙂 > “Hello, I was wondering if you could answer these 3 simple questions for a school project about blog...

[GEEKY] SEO Expert Advice, debunked

Search Engine Optimization is a weird wacky world with experts, oracles, analysis, opinion and superstition. If you are into it, here’s a look at how complex and intricate SEO gets. But when there are gazillions of dollars involved, I guess is kind of inevitable.

Amazing pictures

I can’t figure out exactly how it was made. I would have expected to see the photographer and camera in each shot. They must be some kind of composite. Anyway, look at all of these amazing pictures!

Are we (we are) heading for a recession?

Just check out this well argued, detailed piece, “Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis”, by Lawrence Summers: > “Three months ago it was reasonable to expect that th...

Wikipedia on a map

I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. Here’s a new neat hack: Wikipedia Vision. This is a live, animated, world map, showing in real time each edit to the Wikipedia, as it happens. Makes the world feel even smaller, doesn’t it? It’s a cool way to learn about topics in Wikipedia that you may not have known about. Check out Wikipedia Vision

Building traffic for your blog

If you’re a regular reader you know that I’ve been studying Search Engine Optimization. As I’ve said before, it’s one of those topics that sounds like all common sense once you hear it, but then why didn’t you think of it yourself? Anyway here’s a good article with lots of good solid common sense about building traffic for your blog.

How to be creative

I just came across this thoughtprovokingbit called “How to be creative.” It’s a quick read in the short form and at least for me, hit home. Here is an expanded form of the same ideas, with illustrations. Recommended.

How does Fake Steve get away with this?

Everyone by now has heard that the Diary of Fake Steve Jobs is actually written by Daniel Lyons, a Senior Editor at Forbes. In a recent article, as an example, you can see, Fak...

[geeky] Dang – I was looking for one of these just last week

13 port USB hub Yeah very geeky, eh? All I was able to locate was 7-port USB hubs. Why not daisy chain them?  I have reason to believe that while logically it should not matter, in practice it does. My reason...

The F-Word

Over on Copyblogger, a good reminder of a bit of common wisdom: > “[snip…]Yep, it’s the “F” word. > Fear. > Fear affects us all more than we care to admit, and it’s especially insidious for writers. Writing online is one of those activities wher...

The System Administrators Song

“A song about those very special people that make sure your computer works. They are called System Administrators.”“…. sometimes he just presses caps lock and walks away, and wow, hey, my password works again! … “ Funny! Technorati Tags: funny

Freebase.com is the semantic web

I am not an expert in the semantic web but Freebase looks like it to me. I am surprised more hasn’t been written about it. It is absolutely amazing and head-spinning. I will have a hard time describing accurately, hence the headline. For me, it seems like Freebase does wha...

The Time Machine Works!

Check out this post from blog.payne.org: > Well, I can report that Time Machine (the new back-up & restore utility for Mac OS X) works. My 364 day old MacBook suffered a complete hard drive failure, only TWO hours after completing my first full backup. I hustled to the Apple store right away, so I didn’t miss my one-year warranty window. (from: Involuntary test of Time Machine) I will wait just a little longer before committing to Leopard. It’s one of those, if it aint broke then don’t fix it kind of situations…

Shakey-bakey Security

“Establishing a secure wireless link between two gadgets could soon be purely a matter of holding them together and applying a vigorous shake.” (from NewScientistTech)

Google is the universe

As you may have heard, I’ve been learning all about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) lately. I just came across this amazing little service called the DigPageRank Pagerank Checker. The story goes something like this. Google assigns every single page in the whole i...