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Jammin’ at the Sistene Chapel

April 17, 2005

For an old world organization you gotta give it to the Vatican, first they alerted the news media via SMS when the Pope passed away. Now they are employing cellular jammers to prevent secret communitions from the secret conclave at the Sistene Chapel to elect a new pope (yahoo news).
C’mon ya gotta admit that pictures [...]

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AdSense

April 15, 2005

So I’m almost finished with my CSS Zen Garden Book, and I’ve been inspired to completely redesign this blog. I have a couple of other business projects to finish up, so it’s mostly in the preliminary design stage, and probably a few weeks off. However since my posting volume has increased, I’m thinking of adding [...]

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Nike Caught with Gym Shorts Down

April 14, 2005

There’s a bit of a bru-ha-ha over Joseph Jaffe’s Tiger Woods Nike commercial floating about on the web. It always strikes me as funny when a marketing rep for a large corporation comes out and says something like this:
Nike’s [Chris] Mike said he had not seen Jaffe’s ad, nor would he [...]

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Star Wars Cell Phone

April 14, 2005

I swear I don’t make this stuff up it just finds it’s way to my inbox. Here’s another Star Wars product tie in, the Star Wars Cell Phone. It’s got Darth Vader on the cover and Anakin and Ben Kenobi dueling on the back. It also has uber-jedi features like Star Wars ringtones and games [...]

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I Like Ike

April 13, 2005

Here’s a quote from US President Dwight D. Eisnhower I really like:
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
Dwight Eisnhower Quotes.
Dwight Eisnhower Biography
tags: Eisenhower,quotes.

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Star Wars: The Dark Chocolate Side

April 13, 2005

I don’t know if Darth Vader has a preference for dark chocolate or not, but George Lucas has the power of the Schwartz working early with this M&M commercial product tie in. Actually it’s kinda cute and not really that lame (video)

tags: star wars.

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Popularity is not Credibility

April 12, 2005

Steve Rubel talks about How to measure a Bloggers Credibility. He mentions these four methods:

Assessing his/herTechnorati standing
Checking whether the person makes his/her traffic statistics publicly viewable
Using Google and Marketleap
Researching the blogger’s media coverage

Now I read his blog pretty regularly, and he’s a pretty bright guy, so I’ll assume he’s using these primarily as a starting [...]

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DNA can be Beautiful

April 12, 2005

So after reading DigitalGhosts recommendation for James D. Watson’s DNA book followed by this quote from the author:
“We have tried to write for a general audience, intending that someone with zero biological knowledge should be able to understand the bookÂ’s every word”.
I just had to order it from Amazon. This gives me the perfect segue [...]

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Identifying Link Farm Spam Pages

April 12, 2005

This excerpt comes from one of the research papers making the rounds entitled identifying Link Farm Spam Pages.
4.4 Comparison of ParentPenalty and BadRank
As we mentioned before, BadRank uses the following philosophy:
a page should be penalized for pointing to bad
pages. However, it does not specify how far it should go. If
page A points to page B, [...]

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Cookie Monster Goes on a Diet

April 12, 2005

Yet another another example of people refusing to take responsibility for their own actions or inactions and blame other people for causing their problems, the producers of Sesame Street have succumbed to public pressure and put Cookie Monster on a diet (news). While the producers are steering clear of actually using the “diet” word, they [...]

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We Build Pages Theme Song

April 11, 2005

I hope Jim and the boys at WeBuildPages don’t give up their day jobs for a shot on American Idol Next season. Check out the We Build Pages Theme Song.
… keep your eye on threadwatch and googleguy … (LMAO!)

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Penne ‘ala Vodka

April 11, 2005

I know this may come a come as shock to many of you but I’m not big on rules. I like to play fast and loose. While I do have some that have to be followed exactly, like my chocolate cake recipe that requires 2 days to make, most of mine are guidelines more than [...]

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Algorithm Research Papers

April 11, 2005

So I just finished reading identifying link farm spam pages and Pagerank Increase under Different Collusion Topologies. I don’t have a fancy sheepskin hangin’ on my wall but I’d say those documents were about 30 pages longer than necessary. In fact I’ll sum them up in about 6 sentences:

Spammers will exchange links with friends or [...]

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Tiger Woods

April 11, 2005

Now I’m no golf fan, in fact the closest I come is a round or two at the local miniature golf course once or twice a year. However when I saw Tiger Woods sink that shot, all I can say is that’s amazing. I’m not sure how Nike got it to pause on the “swoosh” [...]

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Bookmarks

April 11, 2005

Since I’m trying to purge my personal computing needs I’ve decided to share my bookmarks. So feel free to look around and beg, borrow or steal anything you like. It’s a work in progress, and I’ll be updating it from time to time. I’ve filtered out the uber secret stuff …

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Google Adwords Budget Optimizer

April 6, 2005

Google is testing a new budget optimizing tool with some advertisers. I logged into my account last night and I have the tool. I’ll test it for a day or two on two campaigns that are engaged in something of a mini-bidding battle. I’ll report back when I have some data to share. You can [...]

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Sturgeon’s Law

April 6, 2005

You would think that a science fiction geek like myself would have come across

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Bad Google News Website

April 5, 2005

I play in the health and fitness sector and I have google news alerts set up for related topics. Over the past few days a new website has filled a majority of the highlighted articles. While I’m hesitant to out them, this is too horrible to let slide. It has two sets of Adsense results, [...]

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Britney Spears

April 5, 2005

Is Google spamming itself again? We know they got caught cloaking once already. However in what can only be described as bizarre they went and banned themselves. Well Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch thinks they may be up to something again, see Google ranks for Britney Spears.
Spotted via InsideGoogle, Stephan Spencer argues in Does [...]

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Google Maps and Satellite Photos

April 5, 2005

Yesterday Google integrated satellite imagery into Google Maps. I say it’s a complete abuse of expensive technology and resources, in other words, IT’S A REALLY COOL TOY TO PLAY WITH!

So of course the first thing everybody is going to do look up their house, job, school, old girl/boyfriends house, and maybe follow their drive to [...]

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