Archives for December, 2004
del.icio.us / NewsGator
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
So…how many other people have noticed that del.icio.us tag links consistently make up close to 50% of NewsGator Online’s top rated feeds? Do we feel that some signficance may be attached to this?
Ad Hoc Advertising
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
After reading this little anti-BzzAgents rant, I start to think that it might be for the best that I never took my “Ad Hoc Advertising, Inc.” idea past the Web site template stage. On the other hand, since my idea was to get a lameass business model patent on… “[a] ‘peer to peer’ advertising network, [...]
What’s in a Name?
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. I seem to be obsessing over names today. As reported pretty much everywhere, Microsoft has been handed a defeat in the EU, and will be required to ship a version of Windows without Windows Media Player in [...]
At Least “Neo” Didn’t Make the List
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
The process of assigning a name to one’s child is a frequent topic of discussion around our house these days. We have a strict “no comment” policy on our candidates, though, so you’ll get no inside information on that here. What you will get is a link to the Social Security Administration’s popular baby names [...]
Like a Blogroll, but Not Really
Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
What with the whole impending child thing, my concentration is pretty much going out the window…anything that takes longer than about fifteen minutes isn’t going so well. That, of course, makes it a perfect time for a stupid little programming diversion. Those of you who visit the site may have noticed the sad little “links” [...]
Blogfodder, volume II: Why Can’t Search and Sort Just Get Along?
Friday, December 17th, 2004
I have to admit that this blogfodder topic is a little weak, since I’ve already spouted off on this at least once before, but the desktop search arms race that’s currently underway has brought a little currency to the topic. There was a nice post on the Social Customer Manifesto a few days ago, entitled [...]
The Perils of Caller ID / The Abomination Known as Jigsaw
Friday, December 17th, 2004
With (1) the impending arrival of my first child, (2) doing my actual real job, and (3) preparing to not be doing my real job for a week or two when item (1) actually goes into production, I haven’t been posting much in the last couple of weeks, and I don’t anticipate posting much over [...]
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook: Attribution
Monday, December 6th, 2004
Last week I noticed that this link to a piece called “Sartre’s Cookbook” was at the top of the del.icio.us popular link list. Unfortunately, the folks who run that site simply put “author unknown” as the attribution. Because I love the piece and happen to know the author, I’ll right this wrong: The Jean-Paul Sartre [...]
Lycos Europe Loves You, Motherf#$%er
Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
Who — who, I ask you — could have predicted that Lycos’ “make love not spam” screensaver, intended to create an army of drone machines that download data from sites advertised in spam and thereby increase the bandwidth costs associated with spamming, would end up acting like a vigilante-style DOS attack and knock sites completely [...]
