Day: December 6, 2004
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There is a home for weblogs
Toto, we’re home. That’s the weblogs category in the main Yahoo directory, courtesy of Jeremy Zawodny. He’s right… I didn’t know that existed and I’m obviously too lazy to check before posting. I don’t mind the differences Jeremy points out between the My Yahoo mini-directory and the main directory, as I expect that if it…
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Publishing and hiding
Bob Wyman of PubSub on the Yahoo FeedMesh group comes out with this epigram: It is very difficult to publish and hide at the same time. It’s not quite poetic, but it feels pithy, at least. The context? He’s explaining why syndication is less full of unwanted messages than, say, e-mail, because tracking the world…
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Knowing your customer
How to Sell a Candidate to a Porsche-Driving, Leno-Loving Nascar Fan is a NYTimes article looking, after the fact, at the data which drove the media decisions for the campaigns, especially the Republican campaign. The entire article, in a phrase: “Democrats watch more television than Republicans.” Yes, there is a bit more than that, with…