Don’t you love the recent spate of made-for-digg posts and articles? Me too.
(A response I posted to Modern Dragons’ excellent 10 Reasons Why.)
[tags] digg, top ten, lists, blogging, john koetsier [/tags]Whoa! What happened? All of a sudden Technorati has caught the blogging fever.
The once-moribund Technorati blog, which had a grand total of two posts throughout all of a long, long September, now has four posts just today, and a healthy eight posts for the month of October … which is just nine days old.
What gives – did they read a book or something? I hear blogs are great ways to let your clients know what’s what. Maybe they did too. Or maybe they just heard my whining.
Seriously, though, I’m really happy to see Technorati use the medium that they’re passionate about to connect with the people that they’re serving.
Way to go. I hope to see it continue.
[tags] technorati, blogging, john koetsier [/tags]It’s the oddest thing … Akismet has been catching and anihilating 100-150 comment spams each and every day for the past few months, but:
… the count is not changing. It’s the best tool I’ve ever seen for catching spam … but simple arithmatic seems beyond it.
Odd!
[tags] akismet, blogging, spam, splog, automattic, wordpress [/tags]Thanks to everyone who has linked to bizhack over the past 4-5 months of its existence.
Onward and upward.
If you would like to favorite me on Technorati, by the way, voila:
I know a woman who got a labeller and went a little crazy. When my wife and I visited her a couple of weeks later, everything was labeled.
TV? Labeled. Phone? Labeled. VCR? (It was a few years ago.) Also labelled.
I was wondering about that a little bit as I’ve been tweaking and adding to this new blog design. Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great had given me a few suggestions, and I had wanted to do both of those things better:
The first – meaningful categories – was the main priority for me (more on the second in another post). I like the Category Cloud plugin (for WordPress) because it sizes your categories in relationship to the number of posts they contain. It also allows you to display an astonishing number of categories in a very compact but not visually busy space. (It’s not busy or cluttered-looking because to the quick glance, all the categories form a visual whole.)
But it wasn’t working out well:
Under the ads
First I had it under the Google AdWords/AdSense block. Too low – not visible enough. If the goal was to allow visitors to get a quick visual sense of what’s on this blog, they might never see it.
Not good.
Up top, labeled
Then I moved it up top. Great … but the title was bothering me. Why was I labeling my categories? Wasn’t it fairly obvious that they were categories? I mean, you might as well label the sky, the moon, or the sun.
So I took all the labels off – including the Search header. That proved to be too much – too bare, naked, and possibly confusing for those who aren’t full-time web addicts.
The perfect solution
So. Now I have it as you see it: “search” is still a label, but “category” or “tag cloud” is no-where to be seen. It just is … which is perfectly sufficient.
Enough, not too much, just in the right proportion: perfect. In my humble opinion, naturally.
As Strunk and White would say:
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Just like design.
[tags] blogging, usability, design, tag, cloud, categories, labels, john koetsier [/tags]The worst righteousness is self-righteousness. I know this from personal experience, since today, in recompense, I had to eat a wacking plateful of humble pie.
This morning I sent a fairly energetic letter to David Sifry. It wasn’t rude, but it was intense. The perceived problem? For the last 3 days, Technorati has not been indexing my content. I was not happy about it – especially since Technorati has been fixing its problems lately.
However, Technorati was not at fault
Three days ago, I added a RSS feeds link to my blog’s top-level navigation. Unfortunately, I named it simply “feeds.” When WordPress creates a page, it gives that page a URL that is exactly the same as the title of the page … unless a page already exists with that name.
Well, in WordPress, one does. But it’s not a user-created page … it’s the default location of your RSS feeds when you have full-text URLs turned on – as I do. So my new page was the exact location of WordPress’ RSS feeds. And it took precedence.
So when Technorati was trying to index my site, it did. It indexed exactly what it should have indexed: a page with nothing on it but but some subscribe to my feed information.
David Sifry to the rescue
So here David – CEO of an important corporation – gets this not-nasty but not-very-happy email. And here David goes and checks my site. Checks source on my site. Discovers the issue, which is that the place WordPress stores feeds at has been over-written by my new page. Emails me back – nicely.
I’d send you a longer message, but I’m extremely busy right now and wanted to get back to you quickly. Did you know that your feeds don’t currently point to your content?
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/feed/rss/
http://www.sparkplug9.com/bizhack/index.php/feed/atom/These are the feeds that you point to in the of your blog, and since they are broken, Technorati isn’t indexing your blog.
When you fix it, please ping again, and things should work fine. For example, if you are using feedburner, then put this in your element:
< link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/bizhack” / >and take out the other ones. Then re-ping.
(I also had to delete the feeds page – just changing its title does not change its URL – and create it again with a new name: get fed. But Dave’s comments were the clue I needed.)
I feel about 2 inches tall. Thanks, Dave, and sorry for the trouble.
Humble pie is very much like Fisherman’s Friend – tastes awful … but it’s probably good for you.
I’m experimenting a little with my posts … truncating some of the longer ones so that they don’t contribute to a verrryyyy looonnggg front page.
The downside is that if you come in via the home page, you need to click “Continue reading …” in order to get the full post. The upside is that if you weren’t interested in it anways, you can quickly skip to the next one. RSS feeds are still full-text, as per usual.
Any thoughts? Good, bad, or indifferent? Please let me know.
[tags] blogs, blogging, posts, john koetsier [/tags]Guy Kawasaki has replaced his incomprehensible Latin blog name with something that is, at least, comprehensible. But is it an improvement?
Guy’s blog used to be titled “Signum sine tinnitu.” I have searched, but cannot find an exact translation of that. “Signal without ringing” is the closest I can get. I know Guy has tinnitus – ringing in the ears. So that fits.
And it illuminates his new blog title as well – he’s essentially translated it with a left-handed nod to 37signals‘ excellent blog, signal versus noise.
But saying something cute in Latin is very different from stating it baldly in English. And stating that you are all signal and no noise is very bald indeed. Maybe too bald.
Signum sine tinnitu is a great blog, and I’ve enjoyed Guy’s books. But nobody’s that good.
[tags] guy kawasaki, signal vs noise, 37signals, blog, ego, john koetsier [/tags]Remember blogrolls? Those annoying lists of me-too sites that used to be a staple of every blog?
They are so yesterday, and here’s why …
Are all blogrolls in all cases bad? Of course not. Are most of them? Definitely.
Decide which yours is, and act accordingly.
[tags] blogroll, blogging, blogrolling, john koetsier [/tags]Looks like Technorati wants to promote its position as the arbiter of what’s what in the blogosphere. They’re releasing a newsletter, the “Buzz Monitor.”
I just got my initial introductory email:
The Buzz Monitor will be your weekly update of what’s happening on
the web, right now. We’ll pipe you headlines from the blogosphere,
photos from our members, tips and tricks for our publishers, and
guides for our users. All this delivered fresh to your inbox each
week courtesy of the world’s leading index of user-generated media.The Buzz Monitor will arrive in html and text format, and will be
archived and available on http://www.technorati.com.Expect the first edition of the Buzz Monitor to arrive next Friday,
and every Friday thereafter. We’ll strive to report the best of
the World Live Web every week, and we’re confident you’ll like it.
Reminds me of This Week in Rojo (TWIR) … Technorati has been great at helping bloggers understand who’s linking where (well, great at trying to do that), but it has not really been tremendously successful at helping technocrats capture the ongoing zeitgiest of the blogosphere.
Maybe this will help.
[tags] technorati, rojo, twir, buzz monitor, john koetsier [/tags]Update: Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has responded in the comments. Thanks!
Technorati board member and venture capitalist Ryan McIntyre is the only upper echelon person associated with Technorati who has even commented on the quality of service that Technorati has NOT been providing lately.
Kudos. But why aren’t we hearing from Dave Sifry about it?
When I saw McIntyre’s post which mentions the issues, I posted the following comment on his blog:
If you’re on the board, are you able to affect the situation at all?
Technorati’s service has always had great PROMISE, but always been greatly “spotty,” as Liz Dunn quaintly referred to it.
First of all: some major effort to solve the problem with the million$ that Technorati has recently raised should be a number one priority. And secondly, some honesty and openness about the situation would be greatly appreciated.
I mean … the arbiter of the blogosphere has what, 2 posts on its blog all of last month – a horrible month, when it’s been up and down like a yo-yo? This is ridiculous: be upfront, be honest, be real.
(This is something that Dave Sifry should take to heart too … as I’ve tried and tried to bring a few issues to his attention via email, links to his blog, and comments on his blog … all without the least sign of success.)
The issue is not only being up or down, or the notorious, infamous “Technorati is experiencing a high volume of searches right now and could not complete your request,” which I’ve seen on the HOME PAGE.
It’s also data integrity as the service appears to wildly swing between mutually inconsistent datasets. Links appear and disappear with disconcerting frequency.
Some kind of information about what the company plans to do about it would be nice. How about telling bloggers the plans for ensuring that it won’t happen again? A little PR wouldn’t be out of place.
As a member of the blogosphere, I suggest that could start on the Technorati blog.
Why am I doing this? Why am I harping on this?
I care about Technorati’s service. I care about what they do. And I keep getting corroborating comments ever so often, weeks and weeks after writing various articles about Technorati’s woes.
Bloggers care about Technorati. Enough to want Technorati to be better.
[tags] technorati, Ryan McIntyre, sifry, john koetsier [/tags]At risk of stating the obvious, bizhack has a whole new look today.
I wanted something simpler, something darker, and something a little more cutting-edge. Voila.
The highlights:
I’m using the fairly excellent Unsleepable theme built for WordPress. It’s a little more complicated than most themes, but I think the final result is not too shabby.
[tags] blogs, theme, wordpress, blogging, john koetsier [/tags]You’ve got a new product. How do you get bloggers to review it positively?
Whatever you do, if you’re tempted to give free stuff to bloggers, think twice. Is it good enough? If not, stop. You’re in for a nightmare. Unless you think no PR is bad PR.
If you ask me, I’d rather get positive spin.
[tags] product, reviews, bloggers, blogging, social media, marketing, pr, john koetsier [/tags]Today, Dave Winer said that he made $2.3 million via his blog, Scripting News. How on earth did he do that?
I would really like to know, and I bet thousands of other bloggers would as well.
But – little hint up front – it’s a secret. A very intriguing secret, and a secret with clues, but, in the end, a very secretive secret.
Here’s what Dave says:
People think blogs are about advertising, and I would agree, but they’re thinking in terms of clicks and eyeballs, and I’m thinking of technology that’s created using the intelligence of community participation.
Want to see how it’s done? It’s here in the archive of this blog. Don’t have the time to read the archive? Read today’s blog. We will get a whole new flow built here, through persistent experimentation, refinement, listening, promoting, thinking, and looping.
Hrm. OK.
It’s one of those non-explanatory explanations. Kinda cagey, vague, and secretive in an elementary school “I know something you don’t” kind of way. What on earth does he mean?
It’s fairly obvious right away from just looking at Scripting News that it does not carry advertising. That seems to jive with his comment above.
So what is it about? “Technology that’s created using the intelligence of community participation” sounds wonderful and interesting and web 2.0-ish … but what does it mean in relation to $2.3 million of annual revenue?
Dave teases us by saying: “It’s here in the archive of this blog.” Is it? I have some time, and I’ve been checking through his archive. Maybe I’m too dense. Or I’m just not seeing the forest for the trees.
But I don’t see things generating $2.3 million of revenue.
Perhaps there’s a clue in the most prominent feature in Scripting News’ right sidebar, the Community Directory. Maybe there’s a site there with ads, or some other revenue model, that is generating significant revenue.
There are a lot of links there to feed directories of sorts, and a whole bunch of errors … but nothing that looks like a money machine.
Knowing that some of us are dense, Dave gives us one more clue:
Don’t have the time to read the archive? Read today’s blog. We will get a whole new flow built here, through persistent experimentation, refinement, listening, promoting, thinking, and looping.
OK. So today’s blog, September 22, 2006 has clues to what is earning Dave a couple of megabucks a year. Does someone else see them? I sure don’t.
Unless Dave is charging $100/link (and he’s not … he’s linked to me two or three times, and I haven’t paid him any money … not that he would do that anyways), how the heck is he making money? His only other comment there is a vague futuristic statement.
I’m stumped. I’d like to hear others’ ideas.
Because if no-one else knows how Dave Winer is making millions via Scripting News, maybe it’s just April Fool’s day and no-one told the rest of us.
Or the secret of making $2.3 million/year by blogging is just that: a secret.
[tags] dave winer, scripting news, blogging, millions, 2.3 million, advertising, john koetsier [/tags]Plugins take a basic blog – even a wonderful WordPress blog – to the next level of interactivity and functionality.
Since I’m just in the process of updating my blog theme, I had to consider which plugins I was going to continue/stop/start using.
Here are the 5 WordPress plugins I can’t do without:
There are others I may use, but those are the core.
What are your core plugins?
[tags] wordpress, plugins, blogging, john koetsier [/tags]I don’t know if I’m like the cobbler’s kid, who never gets new shoes, or like the designer’s house which is never the same for two months in a row.
I’m tired of this current theme:
So …. I’ll be moving to a new design in just few days. If you want a sneak peek, I’m using my low-traffic fishcrackers blog as a testbed while I work all the kinks out.
Since it may be helpful for others as well, I’ve listed 7 things to do when switching blog themes.
When switching your theme:
Hopefully, I’ll have the site updates up this week. But I’ll be taking it slow … ensuring that everything is working, so that may change.
Change is good!
[tags] blogging, theme, new, design, wordpress, plugins, akismet, simpletags, related posts, technorati tags, category cloud, wp-notable, john koetsier [/tags]OK, brace yourself. This is a really easy one …
The time NOT to market your product via bloggers is when you HAVE A LOUSY PRODUCT.
If you have a lousy product, whatever you do, don’t send it to bloggers. Hopefully, they won’t see it, won’t realize it’s a lousy product, and won’t post on it. There is, after all, a variety of word-of-mouth marketing that you don’t want.
If you have a lousy product, hide it.
Don’t let bloggers see it. Keep it far away from clueful people with their own personal electronic printing presses.
Instead, sell it via mass media to people who still read paper magazines and paper newpapers. Use advertising on network TV.
This way you can show your product to people who can’t try it, market to people who won’t know it sucks, and sell to people who don’t check out the online buzz first.
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This post inspired by Joel Spolsky’s post on the incredibly bad Sprint Power Vision network, and the free LG Fusic they sent him to try. Talk about disaster.
[tags] sprint, joelonsoftware, joel spolsky, LG, fusic, cell phone, power vision network, social marketing, blogging, WOM, word-of-mouth, john koetsier [/tags]It’s foolish and silly and childish. I know. And top 25,000 is like coming in at the back of the pack at the elementary school track meet.
But still, I’m happy to report that bizhack is now among the top … drum roll please … 25,000 blogs worldwide.
(Yes, in spite of my many beefs with Technorati, they’re still the best available blog tracking/ranking service out there.)
Thanks to all those who have linked to this blog.
The reason I keep track of links is that links are the currency of the blogosphere – and of the web itself. A link is a vote … a vote of confidence. And I appreciate every single one.
Here’s a list of those who have linked to bizhack – much appreciated!
Progress is forward movement, right? Not backwards? OK, I was thinking I had that wrong for a moment.
Yesterday – the 5th anniversary of 9/11 – I visited Think Progress to see their side of the Path to 9/11 story.
As I was about to post a comment, I noticed that doing so would obligate me – in their eyes – to agree to their terms and conditions:
I stopped dead in my tracks. This is a blog. Putting terms and conditions on it is wrong. We don’t need contracts to converse.
Blogs are conversations. They happen to be separated in time and space, but they’re conversations. Do you force people you’re chatting with in a cafe to agree to a multi-page list of terms and conditions? No!
Here are their terms and conditions. I’ve put them in a textarea block so they don’t take up 5 pages:
In university I studied Bruce Chatwin’s Songlines. A major theme of the book is how Australia’s aborigines map their land and record their history through songlines … songs that lead you from spring to well, mountain to valley, and songs that tell you what has occured at each step of the path.
A recent post on a book called Storycatcher reminded me.
Story is the song line of a person’s life.
We need to sing it and we need someone to hear the singing.
Story told, story heard, story written, story read
create the web of life in words.
To me, blogs – at least personal blogs – are storycatchers. They’re songlines.
My personal blog is a record of where I’ve been, what I’ve done, what I’ve experienced, and my thoughts along the way. It’s my storycatcher.
And it’s my songline for when I want to retrace my path. What did I do there? What was the name of that movie? Where did we go together? It’s all only a search away.
I developed that thought last year: Blogs as personal mobile databases. Robert Scoble said something similar a week or two ago when he was interviewed by Jennifer Jones: he uses Google to search his own blog and, basically, augment his memory of events.
Where’s your songline?
[tags] songlines, blogs, blogging, database, personal, scoble, podtech, bruce chatwin, john koetsier [/tags]Yerch. This is ugly.
If you don’t have a community, you can now buy one.
Forums at your company site slow? No comments on your blog? No problem: you can get 100 posts for only $24.50. And 700 posts for only $145!
Astroturf, fake virtual communities … where will it end?
The good thing is, something like this will never be successful in the long term. It’s just not sustainable.
I hope.
[tags] astroturf, community, social media, forums, paid posts, john koetsier [/tags]Only three this week – no time, sorry! But a very, very, very worthwhile three – I think you’ll agree:
As always, if you want to see your blog in the SLOB hall of fame, email me!
[tags] SLOB, blogging, hall of fame, john koetsier [/tags]I’ve been wondering lately about online reputation in a world in which anyone can comment on any blog with any credentials.
For example, I could go to Dick Hardt’s blog Blame Canada and pretend to be Guy Kawasaki, and create a very nasty comment. And who would know that Guy didn’t flip his lid? After all, it’s his name, his email address, and his blog address. Right?
I see huge negative potential for this in the blogosphere. In fact, it’s already happening. Check out Scoble’s comment on one of his own posts: some creep is trackbacking sites as if he’s Scoble, and making it look as if Scoble has commented.
Hugh Macleod had the same problem on Tara Hunt’s blog: some sleazeball posting false and inflammatory comments, putting words into Hugh’s mouth, and potentially damaging both Hugh’s relationships and his reputation.
Here’s my question: can Dick Hardt’s sxore service prevent this problem? Sounds like it could:
sxore is an identity and reputation system for blog authors, readers and commenters. By acting as an intermediary between blog posts and comments, sxore provides a framework of identity for participants in the blog dialog.
But will my fake Guy Kawasaki comment make it through?
If I recall, when I signed up for sxore I had to authenticate myself via an automated email link. That has the potential to make it more difficult. Guy may be getting an email from sxore right now wondering what on earth is going on.
I could have put his email address as guy@sparkplug9.com … and unless there was a person checking it or an automated check that the email address is from the same domain as the blog (a potentially limiting factor for all those denizens of the blogosphere who do not have their own domain) my comment would probably still go through … because I could create that address and authenticate it. At least, however, there’d be some kind of audit trail that could be traced.
So sxore may be a solution to the problem. (In fact, there’s a WordPress plugin available right now.)
It just needs wide enough adoption to become a standard.
[tags] sxore, dick hardt, guy kawasaki, reputation, blogosphere, comments, spam, john koetsier [/tags]Driving home tonight listening to the local sports station riff with call-in guests on the Vancouver Canucks’ prospects for the coming NHL season, I started thinking.
“User” or “consumer” generated content is nothing new. It’s at least as old as talk radio, which relies heavily on call-in listeners to stimulation conversations and generate interest.
Are there other examples of producerism that predate the internet era? Here’s the components you need, as far as I can tell:
Talk radio fits, I think, but the 18th-century tavern doesn’t. Am I missing something?
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America’s Funniest Home Videos comes to mind. A significant difference? The centralized gatekeeper/editor. Perhaps a necessary part of the definition of producerism/user-generated content is the lack of a centralized gatekeeper.
[tags] cgm, consumer-generated media, producerism, team1040, radio, talk, social media, community, john koetsier [/tags]Did you notice that 500 people echoed Christ Pirillo’s eliminate the echo chamber post?
(I might be slightly exagerating.)
This post, however, is an anti-echo.
(The above comment should be taken with precisely one grain of salt.)
[tags] chris pirillo, echo, blogging, blogosphere, john koetsier [/tags]If I update my blog and Technorati doesn’t notice, did I really update my blog?
(Please scroll down for numerous updates. As things change, I’ll update the updates, which will then be updated with new updates, when updatability is required. And so on.)
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Issue
Technorati is not updating its index of this blog as I ping it to notify it that I’ve updated. This has only been going on for a couple of days now, but some other bloggers have had the same issue for 45 days, 146 days, or longer.
It may, repeat may, have something to do with Technorati deciding that your blog is a splog, but I have no real evidence for that. (Only that it IS indexing my other two blogs which are right on this same server – and base domain!)
As I find out more about this problem and others that are having it, I’ll post the links here.
Apparently, I am not alone. In fact, there’s hundreds, maybe thousands, in the same nasty boat. Hmm, even more. And more! This blogger says Technorati is eating her shorts.
This issue is not new, as many posts around the blogosphere can attest. These issues, however, have not stopped Technorati from releasing new features.
If you’re having an issue as well – or especially if you had an issue and got it fixed – let me know in the comments. Thanks! Somehow we have to let Technorati know about this and make enough noise so they actually get it fixed.
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Update: Sept 1 3:14 PM
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Update: Sept 2 12:10 PM
Technorati has started updating its index of bizhack again. I still haven’t heard from anyone there, and about 4-5 posts have fallen into the aether, but Technorati has picked up my 2 latest posts. That’s good … but there are still MANY bloggers stuck in index limbo. Some communication from Technorati about this would be a positive sign.
Update: September 4, 11:03 PM
OK, I’m in the Technorati black hole again … it’s no longer picking up my new posts. It’s now missing about 7-8 of them. Ditto last comment above: some communication would be nice.
Update: September 5, 10:23 PM
Now Technorati has forgotten that it knows my blog: on my account page it says “Errors listing claimed blogs,” and a search for bizhack in the blog directory turns up no results. Meanwhile a search for bizhack in blog posts turns up 248 links.
The benefits of social media and business blogging are not immediately apparent to all.
I recently received an email from an Ausssie who’s trying to convince a client to open up. Names changed to protect his privacy … and his relationship with his client! Also, I’ve done some very slight editing for clarity.
Hey John,
I enjoy reading your blog – your Increase your IQ: blog article caught my attention. We too have been inspired by the Stormhoek example which has been on my radar screen for some time now, and have also been trying to get corporates interested in leveraging the blogosphere …
We (name deleted) recently won a small project with (large Australian company – name deleted). We found a small group of bloggers based on geographic location and invited them to the launch party of a new brand … and … we are now endeavouring to get (the large Australian company) to have a link on their web site to all the bloggers/podcasters.
But we have found it difficult to convince (large Australian company) to do this – full marks for getting the project started but now it’s on the way it seems (to date anyway) they lack the ‘will’ to finish the job!
That, of course, is always great fun for consultants and outsourced talent: a hanging, incomplete project that the client seems to have forgotten.
My reply:
Hi Paul,
Can be tough, hey? Horse and water come to mind.
Reality is: if the client doesn’t get it, you’re probably wasting your time. Because then even if they do it they’ll do it as a tactic or as an episode … not as a new way of doing business and communicating and seeking input and telling people who care what they’re doing.
Hope everything goes well for you. I have a few buddies in Australia, on the Perth side. Where are you?
At this point, it’s probably better not to dip your toes in the social media water than to jump in and then find out that it’s way too cold, the currents are unfamiliar, and besides, you really like your old swimming hole much better anyways.
Authenticity (or lack thereof) will surface … and the social media sphere is extremely hostile to fakery, old-style marketing, or just simple BS.
I hate to say I knew it would happen, but 3-4 months ago I put together this strategy map of where I thought Google was heading.
I focused on education because I work for an education company. But this will happen in the corporate world too.
Google will offer an integrated suite of single sign-on private labeled applications in all of these areas, and more:
All roads lead to Rome? All roads lead to Google.
If anyone is still wondering why Microsoft increased their projected R&D spend enormously just a few months ago, you can stop. Now you know.
Half of all blogs are splogs, according to some estimates I’ve seen.
Like this one, that I recently noticed because it linked to bizhack.
I wonder if you could detect blogs by using some kind of Statistically Improbable Phrase methodology. Not that any of the phrases individually would mean anything … but a whole bunch of phrases that are statistically improbable to be found on the same website would probably be interesting.
There’s gotta be a PageUnRank algorithm in there.
[tags] splog, blog, spam, PageRank, SIP, Statistically Improbably Phrases, google, technorati, john koetsier [/tags]Yup, more SLOBs in the SLOB Hall of Fame.
Want to see your site breathing the rarified air of highly esteemed SLOBdom? Let me know about your SLOBworthy blog.
[tags] great, blogs, blogging, SLOB, john koetsier [/tags]
