Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Mark Glaser follows up on the open archive issue discussed at the BJC. 

Unlike other sites that were nominated for a Bloggie award, Scripting News doesn't tell you who to vote for, or even hint at who you should vote for. Vote for anyone you like. We respect your right to choose. 

I knew something didn't feel quite right about Google's "Founders Award" that John Battelle is fawning over.  

News.com: Google gets rights as Web site registrar. 

My chin dropped when I saw my miserable little quote alongside those from such bastions of wisdom as the NY Times, AP, News.com. If I had known, I would have said something intelligent! (Nahh.) 

Better Bad News satirizes a "recent conference examining blogging, credibility and journalism." Hilarious. 

Reading this ZDNet page, you'd think Yahoo had the main or dominant or first or best aggregator. Hey if enough people play that way, you know what, it'll happen (all but the last two).  

Hey I didn't think of ego-surfing MSN's new search until Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin did it (it suggested "bling bling"). Hey you gotta love a search engine that thinks I'm the #1 Dave, and my RSS is the #1 RSS. It's also pretty smart in figuring out that I don't really own John Doerr.  

Postscript: I may not own John Doerr, but I do own Phil Ringnalda.  

The server that was causing so much trouble yesterday has Urchin log analysis software installed and running. No help, I can't figure out how to set the damn thing up, the documentation is completely gross. I want to point to a directory and say "Here are my log files, analyze them dammit." No such luck. 

I just tripped across this old tutorial from the very early days of scripting.com.  

Wired piece on "folksonomies." 

BBC: "Microsoft is keen to make its home-grown search engine a significant rival to Google." 

Fawning: "To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing."