Zounds! Google To Buy WordPress By Proxy!
Well, okay, now that I have that little bit of headline rumor-/scaremongering out of the way, I've got to say: interesting things are afoot in the Automattic/WordPress world these days. First off, Matt Mullenweg announced a few days ago that, effective immediately, all WordPress.com (as opposed to .org) accounts would be receiving an upgrade [...]
Up From Humble Beginnings
It's hard to believe, but Google, the current King of the Internet[s], sprang up from humble beginnings at Stanford back in 1998. Want proof? Here are the pictures that capture the ragtag nature of the first revision of the Little Search Engine That Could And Eventually Did.
Beyond Crypto Journalism: MySpace, digg And Trust Engines
I've had time to mull over the implications of my previous post on technological solutions to what ails journalism and have come to the conclusion that a solution based on high technology would ultimately fail for the same reason that PGP-based email encryption has failed to catch on in the world at large: it's simply [...]
Spam, Spam, Eggs And Spam, Ham, Spam And Eggs
I have a very simple question: why do I continually get bombarded with penny stock scam image-based spam at work and yet my GMail address has yet to get a single one? Why does my corporate identity lose out? Why do most businesses do such terrible jobs at filtering out the crap and [...]
Google - Now Diagnosing Meatspace Tech Support Issues, Too!
Our living room air conditioner has been acting fairly fritzy as of late, running at full bore for 5 minutes or so and then summarily shutting off and flashing "E1" on its LCD readout. In vain did I search the owner's manual for a solution and I was nearly ready to call Sharp's customer support [...]
Visualize Your Google PageRank
This is pretty sweet. Visual PageRank View is a tool that crawls your site and visually displays the Google PageRank for each of the links on your site, giving you an idea of just how "popular" Google thinks each of your links is. Too cool.
WaPo Editorial Board Piles On Yahoo!
We've been over the incredibly craven behavior of Yahoo! with regards to helping the ChiComms oppress their people, but the mainstream media seems to have largely ignored the issue. In a first big stride, however, the Washington Post's editorial board has weighed in on the issue (anti-Yahoo!, pro-freedom, if you must know). Let's hope [...]
