Like many, I’m sure, I read with sadness the news that the Encyclopedia Britannica was closing yesterday (only the print edition, as it turns out). Then surprise, as I didn’t realize EB still existed. I sure never found it when helping the kids with their science projects. Perhaps there’s a lesson there? Helping the kids during science [...]
If you’re link spamming, you suck. If you know someone who is link spamming, they suck — and you should tell them so. If you don’t know why you suck, here’s a story about the human impact of what you do. About a year ago, my wife Lorna Harris launched a social news site for [...]
I’ve been promising a long look at copyright, search engines in general and Google in particular in the wake of recent conflicts between Google and some newspapers and other content owners. A quote in a New York Times article today — implying that Google doesn’t get copyright permission — finally pushed me forward with my [...]
In my other post, I cover how I took part in Euro Foo Camp 2006 this past weekend. As part of that, I did a session called “Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think.” Figuring my audience was likely filled with AJAX-happy, the-community-is-all-love-and-good tech types, I was deliberately trying to [...]
Here’s something that doesn’t reassure you when you go looking for your favorite airline, as I did to check on a flight just now. Poor old Virgin. Knowing the Virgin site as I do, I think it crashed around the time Googlebot came along. I find it crashes a lot. Still, Virgin deserves some blame. [...]