Year: 2002

Matt asks: Has pagerank run it’s course? Daniel Brandt: Google’s Original Sin. [Scripting News] » A good piece.  The main thrust is that Google’s reliance on pagerank, far from being democratic, is uniquely autocratic.  Because sites with a high pagerank matter most, they have more power and it is harder for site with a low…

Jenny recounts her hellish PC experience over the past month. Makes my experience of replacing my wife’s PC last week seem rather trivial. Must be something in the Illinois air… Welcome back Jenny. Maybe that effort to christen Saint Isidore of Seville the patron saint of the Internet ain’t such a bad idea… at least you’d…

This is a good summary of challenges faced in re-branding efforts. The U.K. has had a couple swings at this particular pitch… wonder whether this newest effort will work? Third time is charming: Great Britain, which has re-branded itself not once but twice this year alone, is once again heading back to the drawing board:…

Obeying demand. Tom Stewart’s most recent Barely Managing column in Business 2.0 takes a look at the market for DVDs as the realization of video-on-demand that so many sought. Tom has a finely honed sense for organizations’ preference for order over profit. I only hope the RIAA is reading as well. Some clips from the…

EBay Mulls Legal Options Against Parody Web Site, USA Today – “…eBay is considering legal action against a parody Web site that lampoons Gov. Gray Davis and is produced by his opponent’s campaign. Campaign workers for Republican Bill Simon said they plan to keep the Web site, called E-Gray (www.e-gray.com), online.” [LLRX Newstand] Talk about…

… have got to be the bane of existence. is there anyone out there who has a good system for keeping up with expenses, gets reimbursed in a timely fashion and pays their corporate expenses consistently? It’s incredible how much time this has taken out of my morning – here I am at 8am, and…

Why is Newsday.com the only place I’m seeing this list (from A.P.) being published? [Steven’s Weblog] Had lunch today with a guy at a major DC-based think tank. Among other things, we discussed the wide berth the media is giving the Bush administration when it comes to issues like, oh, Constitutional rights. (You remember those,…

Roger Turner sends in this answer to my question of a few days ago: Inserting the macro: <%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.[”<paddedItemNum>”]); if defined ( adrpost^.sourceName) {return ( string.popSuffix (adrpost^.sourceName, “:”) )} else {return (”“)}%>into your #itemTemplate.txt file (for the multi-author weblog category) does exactly what I was looking for: takes the sourceName from the contributor’s…

Business Week.  US business schools begin to integrate ethics into their programs.  While the AFA grad below said something a little trite, his sentiment is basically on the mark.  Tell me:  which guy would you hire?    The exercises seemed to be a hit with enrollees. “Business has a long way to go to win back the…

I’m maintaining a new multi-author weblog, and saw this nifty macro that Userland posted here. It takes the title of the RSS feed and passes that through as a value that you can use in the itemTemplate. The end result is that when it takes Bob Smith’s post, you can have it say “Bob Smith”…