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…
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…
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…
Miles and the Trane – short clip, but worth it. I have no idea where it’s from.
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…
Michael Franti and Spearhead playing “Sometimes Rock the Nation” on August 18 2006.
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…
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.
I won’t bother reposting the same information that’s been posted on OpinionatedMarketers.com and on Mary Schmidt’s blog. Definitely read both posts… Maureen Rogers posted about a problem buying tickets online from the Red Sox – and the post was picked up by Company VP Charles Steinberg – who also included an email on the issue from President Larry Luccino’s Blackberry saying “Get back to her please and tell her we are determined to make. It better” (typo is correct, it’s…
One of the big technological leaps that made the personal computer possible was the disc drive. Al Shugart, founder of Seagate, a key innovator in disc drives, passed away on Dec. 13 due to complications from heart surgery, according to Business Week. Shugart’s influence went far beyond Seagate, however. His freewheeling, engineers-come-first philosophy helped propel the drive industry to a truly remarkable pace for innovation. Indeed, while even nontechies are conversant with “Moore’s Law,”—the idea that computer chips get more…