Archives for February, 2005
On Behavioral Targeting
Friday, February 25th, 2005
On Wednesday, ClickZ reported on Return Path’s (relatively) new behavioral targeting functionality. Inasmuch as I work at Return Path and am one of the people who worked on designing this tool, I’m really happy to see it out there in the wild and getting some attention; as regular readers have come to expect, however, there [...]
Stupid Little Things
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
With Bill Gates’ recent affirmation of Microsoft’s “interoperability pledge” and the “MS Office formats are open…hey, wait, no they’re not” discussion in the news recently, the questions surrounding open file formats have been bouncing around my head. These questions ended up bouncing off of a passage that I recently read in Paul Blustein’s The Chastening: [...]
Visualize This: A Convergence of Mini-memes
Monday, February 14th, 2005
John Battelle yesterday posted on FlickrGraph and TagSurf, a couple of the more recent visualization and tagging related thingamajigs to gain popular attention. Is there anything that isn’t being visually represented by the TouchGraph engine now? Possibly. What I’d like to see is a convergence of mini-memes*: take this “TouchGraph visualization of whatever” meme, and [...]
You Old-fashioned “Web browser” People Can Stop Bugging Me
Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
In honor of Matt’s first dip into the pool of taxonomic goodness that is del.icio.us — and so that you “what is this RSS crap” naysayers will stop bugging me about it — I’ve updated the Sea Monkey Rodeo template to include my ten most recent del.icio.us bookmarks in that right-hand column thing. If I’ve [...]
The Candle a Saint
Friday, February 4th, 2005
Green is the night, green kindled and apparelled. It is she that walks among astronomers. She strides above the rabbit and the cat, Like a noble figure, out of the sky, Moving among the sleepers, the men, Those that lie chanting green is the night. Green is the night and out of madness woven, The [...]
absono.us
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
Absonous \Ab”so*nous\, a. [L. absonus; ab + sonus sound.] Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous. [Obs.] “Absonous to our reason.” –Glanvill. …which more or less accurately describes my state of mind, as alienabductions.com is still down and the owner of the machine still MIA. I am taking a first step towards restoring order by my life by starting [...]
I’m Sorry, Dave…
Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
or, what are Turing tests trying to tell us? On Monday, I learned that a CAPTCHA implementation used by at least one blog hosting company (to prevent comment spam) was beaten — thanks, Scott. That same day I also learned of a proposed anti-spam system that makes heavy use of a CAPTCHA system with 3-D [...]
