Month: March 2004
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Book: The Last Precinct
I’ve read several of Patricia Cornwell’s mystery/crime thrillers involving the coroner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Last weekend, with lots of travel time to fill, I picked up The Last Precinct off the bargain rack in the Tampa airport. Hardcover, so not perfect for travelling, but at least I was sure that it I hadn’t read it.…
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Sunny
We’ve just a weekend to remember. I’m glad I wasn’t in front of the computer until now, after sunset.
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Ideas move both ways
Scoble on “Why RSS is more productive than Web” includes several good ideas. None of them are new to me, but perhaps useful to reinforce some points I’m trying to make. I was struck, however, by this item: 3) No looking for “what’s new.” When you visit a site like CNET you need to do…
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“micro-content routing”
Steve Gillmor: “automating micro-content routing tends to reinforce the ubiquity of small consumable, searchable XHTML fragments.” Makes sense to me. But I’ll bet it doesn’t make sense to many (most?). Using that language will never help extend the message beyond geeks. Of course, he’s writing for the geek audience in a geek trade pub, so…
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Mobility… of information
Ray Ozzie, CEO of Groove Networks, rarely posts to his blog these days. When he does, I’m sure lots of people pay attention, as I do — one more reason RSS as a mechanism for distributed attention is helpful. After all, who has time to check a site that changes erratically? Most of us can…
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Which tipping point?
Doc Searls comments on Chad Dickerson’s post about the increased requests for an Infoworld RSS file. Dickerson notes that these requests now top the home page pageviews and says “Feels like a tipping point to me.” He acknowledges the obvious, that aggregator traffic is more like spiders/robots than real people, but still seeing a rise.…
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Does it all boil down to a diagram?
I’m not one to think visually, but, like many (most?) people, I appreciate a good picture all the same. Here’s Steven Van Dyke’s take on How News Travels on the Internet. Nice picture. I’m not sure I’d call what travels on the internet ‘news’ every time, but there is an amazing meme-spread going on. Yesterday…
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Making titles separate elements
Yes, I should have done this long, long ago.
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Misunderstanding Alexa
Om Malik takes a look at the Alexa graph for the domain com.com, and comes to the mistaken assumption that News.com is having a slow year. He then posits that the decline is due to the rise of blogs. I’m all for the rise of blogs, but the reality is that CNET News.com traffic is…
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Overkill, restaurant style
Saturday night, I enjoyed a fine filet mignon from Bern’s Steak House, in Tampa, Florida. I’m not sure I can do it justice, but this place takes selection — at least with steaks and wines/spirits — to an extreme. You may review the menu [15 page PDF, 200K] if you dare. Page 9 begins the…