Monthly Archives: June 2005

Google’s secrets?

For Monday’s seminar, we will be talking about the controversial issue of “search engine optomization.” Google has recently filed a patent for its search process (let’s all look forward to the upcoming intellectual propertay wars among the largest search providers!), and some practical advice for placement based on this is provided in Great Site Ranking [...]
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Not so scary

Tonight in seminar, John noted that he had a problem. He needed the URLs generated by Yahoo search. However, if you try searching for something on Yahoo, say cheese and you mouse over the first result, “I love Cheese!” and look down to see the url of the hyperlink in the message bar, you will [...]
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Three strikes

Three years running, now, I’ve had abstracts in to HICSS that I have failed to deliver on. I actually consider submitting something like that to be a promise to deliver, which makes it even worse. I have done it elsewhere: I was accepted for a NATO advanced studies institute in Russia, but didn’t hear until [...]
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Remaindered links

Another set of links about which I have little comment, but may be worth visiting: * Bush Digs the Baldies – Fetish or megalomania, you be the judge. * Vader’s Blog, Diary of a Monster. (“‘It is vital that you enhance the inter-departmental syngergies of your operation,’ I said. And then I killed him.”) * [...]
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Collaborative PR (?)

I’ve been doing a wiki-interview with Dan Forbush in preparation for a workshop on the future of university PR. The talk has quickly run to RSS, and there is a second interview on the site that details Penn State’s use of RSS. I mention this partly because similar topics have come up recently in the [...]
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Death of the link

Greg Elmer invited me up to the Toronto to meet with a group of folks (namely Auke Touwslager, Charles Davis, ganaele langlois, Abby Goodrum. Nart Villeneuve, Yuya Kiuchi, and Rob King) interested in various forms of web mapping. We talked about several issues related to crawling, and particular in a new web archiving project that [...]
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What the Pluck?

Pluck is another web-based aggregator that somehow escaped my radar until recently. I don’t know how; it seems like the tech magazines love it. It’s come up twice, now, once because this blog was picked as a Pluck feed of the day (which was plucking flattering), and then last week when Zml presented it as [...]
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