Monthly Archives: April 2006

Advertising irrelevance

Lots of laughs this week over the advertisements for hemorrhoid remedies on my site. I don’t know what that says about my posts. One person asked what that said about my audience. The poor click-throughs suggest people who actually visit … Continue reading

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MySpace reinvented email

Somebody recently referred to MySpace as “Outlook for teenagers”. Wow, what an interesting way to visualize the paradigm shift. I had trouble grasping why it was that kids were referring to their MySpace experience using phrases that imply addiction, but … Continue reading

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The problem with being popular

Several people have complained about the quality of the content that comes out of a site like Digg, a site that captures popular consensus to reflect back to its participants what matters at any given moment. I actually agree with … Continue reading

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The SF Chronicle uses blogs and ancient history to improve their print product

The San Francisco Chronicle has been doing some really innovative things recently. They’ve begun printing blog entries from their web site in the daily print edition. It’s good reading that rounds out the wire stories nicely. Every print publisher should … Continue reading

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Copyright challenges when users are creating your content

The ongoing joke about the Internet is that the new successful business models, technology advances and creative breakthroughs always come from two market sectors: games and porn.  The most important breakthrough I’ve seen in a long time cuts across all … Continue reading

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Switching to a new host and blog platform

I’m moving from Blogharbor to WordPress to publish this blog.  I’ve been procrastinating this job for months, but it’s time for a little Spring cleaning.  Apologies if the feed gets messed up or if things look weird. 

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Social search and molecular biology parallels

Steve Burbeck’s meaty “Multicellular Computing” paper has a lot of lessons that can be derived for any personal perspective.  It made me think that we’re just scratching the surface of the many ways information discovery can be made more efficient … Continue reading

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