Friday Morning Music Video – Rahsan Roland Kirk
Playing “Volunteer Slavery” – I don’t know when, I don’t know where, but figure mid-70’s.
www.expertbusinesssource.com Live
Rob O’Regan has been working on a new site for Reed Business, and it went live today – http://www.expertbusinesssource.com/ – it’s a great resource for the small to medium business sector, be sure to give it a read. I’ll be appearing there in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes open.
The Future of Search
I’ve been thinking about search lately. Mainly the thoughts have centered on how poorly machine developed search actually works. Think about it, when you search, be it on Google, MS Live Search or anything, how relevant are the results? How many of the top results are simply gamed results from SEO tactics? The problem is this: while an algorithm can do a good job, I think we really need a team approach – a Digg-like rating system that allows us…
Yelvington – Throw the Bums Out
Steve Yelvington has a great post on Forum/Comment management in the big media environment entitled “Throw the Bums Out.” Those of us that have managed online communities for years know that you’ve got to have a good sherriff around or things get completely out of hand. Think roving bands of digi-thugs corrupting what would otherwise be worthwhile conversations. I’ve seen it enough, with spammers, commercial agendas, tinfoil hatted clowns and their ilk, and I’ll admit over time I became very quick on…
MediaPost/Nielsen on the Death of PageView Metrics
Max Kalehoff, vice president of marketing for Nielsen BuzzMetrics, has a piece up on MediaPost predicting that 2007 will *not* be the year that PageView dies as a valid metric for web advertising. As the title notes, he sees weakening, but doesn’t it to totally go away. The shortcomings, flaws and growing irrelevance of the page view are undeniable, but will the page view die as quickly as so many predict or hope? To the detriment of the online publishing…
Friday Music Video – Miles Davis & John Coltrane
Miles and the Trane – short clip, but worth it. I have no idea where it’s from.
New Home Computer – PITA
I gave the girls a new computer for xmas. It’s a fairly simple machine, duo core Emachine, with plenty of memory, disk, etc. There are two things that have really got me annoyed though. Looking at the list of processes that are running by default on the machine, I have got to wonder why anyone even bothers with a launch Icon anymore. Everything appears to be preloading into memory, at the expense of everything else. For example, I’ve quicktime task manager…
Saturday Morning Music Video
Michael Franti and Spearhead playing “Sometimes Rock the Nation” on August 18 2006.
RIP Gerald Ford
I met Gerald Ford in 1981, after his Washington years had come to an end. He was the guest lecturer for a leadership class I was taking at the University of Vermont at the time. My impressions, even today, run deep. First and foremost, when talking to the man who had the leadership of the free world thrust upon him, I was struck by a single thought: this is a good, caring man. He sat with us for over an…
Merry Holi-kawa-nachah-mas
Whatever you may or may not celebrate, have a great few days and enjoy the family times. I’m attempting to upgrade the kids machine to Vista, and will soon pitch it all and climb into a carton of well-laced nog before the relatives arrive and the fireworks begin. Smile and try to remember, they eventually go home – deck the halls, not a family member. My best to you and yours.