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Bubblegeneration - Evil Corporations Only
"you may receive 70-80% of revenues generated by ads on your blog, but the reality is that your blog increases the value of the Google ad network by a greater amount than the revenues you generate", so Google is not 'fairly' sharing its network effects.
Bud posted this on November 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Google spam suite primer
Niall works for a technorati competitor, but he does an excellent job pointing up the flaws in google's ecosystem. The question, as always, is what is the alternative.
Bud posted this on October 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Googlebombing Now A "Prank" And Not Web's Opinion, Says Google
Links are the currency of the web. If you interlink, you gain visibility, period.
Bud posted this on September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Dark Side of Technorati Tags
What works for photos doesn’t work for words.
Bud posted this on August 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sifry's Alerts: Scaling, performance, and plain old bug fixing
What a couple of months this has been! First, some stats on what’s going on in the blogosphere. Technorati is now tracking over 13.3 Million blogs, and 1.3 billion links.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog Search
The comments indicate some frustration with Technorati and rightly so.
Bud posted this on July 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
First Two Laws of Commons-Based Peer Production (Ross Mayfield)
I'm reminded of the observation that the collective judgment of 60 college educated people can equal 1 domain expert. Britannica = domain expert. The challenge for wikipedia is to get enough collective judgers.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Spam, Hot Spam, Now Only $0.10 Each!
An analysis that pegs the cost of email SPAM at $0.10 per. The author feels this is too high because of filters, but you do have to spend time managing the filters and retrieving thins marked as SPAM which are in fact not. There is also processing cost to consider. If more than half of all email is SPAM, then more than half of all mail server capacity is there because of SPAM.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Can blog spam be solved like email spam?
Suggests something like collaborative filtering to delete SPAM. This is a little what is going on with MT-Blacklist.
Bud posted this on February 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Bad Webloggers, Bad
A brilliant rejoinder on nofollow and comment SPAM. She essentially advocates the sharing is good point of view.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Some Things Aren't Worth Saving
A good note on trackback SPAM and the difficulty of managing it with a popular blog. The thing that works best is to stop comments on older things. The web as a thing of the moment.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
How do you stop a wiki from being ruined?
Yes!! Wikis are so open, it would seem that you can only use them for a trusted group. On the wild, wild Internet, people will deface things that are just left open, leading to a maintenance headache.
Bud posted this on February 10, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Contact and Feed Flow (Ross Mayfield)
A nice response to Christopher Allen. Basically, one is limited by the Dunbar number in terms of active connections (you can actively maintain relations with at most 150). However, it seems quite possible to have dormant relationships.
Bud posted this on February 6, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Great Social Networking Posts
A nice critique of social networking tools. Do they just represent associations? He went to SXSW.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Dunbar Triage: Too Many Connections
A follow up on his earlier Dunbar piece. Focuses directly on the need to manage the large number of relationships made possible by social software. I'd like to have a network of hundreds of people.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Rob Cross | The Hidden Power of Social Networks
Rob Cross's web site. He has made a business of social networks. Nice.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Life With Alacrity: The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
A deep anlaysis on the "optimal" size of social groups. The suggested maxium is 150, and that really is a maximum, working only for groups that have a real reason to stay together. Worth citing a lot.
Bud posted this on February 5, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wikipedia's Rank Decision
So, telling search engines to ignore certain outbound links, denies credit to those resources that you used to build your site. The purported motivation is combatting SPAM, but SPAM is really about real estate, not pagerank.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
mod_security for protecting your blog
Several technical hacks for protecting your MT blog. This is like any web application. Once it gets popular enough, lots of people try to whack at it.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Brands of one
Extremely thought-provoking. How does one step back from blogging? Many people just blog as they will. I think getting caught up in the competitive rat race, believing you are new media etc., leads to burnout.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Folksonomy: The Soylent Green of the 21st Century (Clay Shirky)
Well, as Shirky notes, when others do the work for you, it is much cheaper than doing it yourself. What about SPAM though? That raises the cost. Further, there is a cost to figuring out someone else's tagging system.
Bud posted this on February 2, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Interview with a link spammer | The Register
This guy is looking for real estate, not search engine results. Removing the search engine incentive will not remove SPAM.
Bud posted this on February 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Legals..ethics..welcome to the real world
Who owns the rights to your blog content? How do you even know what rights are in syndicated content? It all suggests to me that you should not worry about ownership and try to get your meme out there. Definitely do not outsource syndication.
Bud posted this on February 1, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The "no nofollow" religion
I wonder if nofollow is really anything but a sham. On many sites, perhaps not Scoble's, comments add real value. For a few high profile people, there are hangers-on.
Bud posted this on January 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
del.icio.uus Tag Stemming (Clay Shirky)
Remarkably, a tool to help you see where you have used similar (but not the same) words to tag items. The idea is to make your own personal tags more consistent and perhaps reduce their count.
Bud posted this on January 31, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Web's Biggest Wiki Search Engine
This sounds like it would work well for topics which many people are searching on. The real question in my mind is how you match near searches. A tremendous amount of branchiness. Tagging might help, if common tags are used. A kettle of fish.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Folksonomy is better for cultural values: A response to danah (Clay Shirky)
Reading this, I wonder if folksonomies are an aggregate social phenomenon or just a way for individuals to share and for their friends to discover.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Technology Threats to Advertising Breach Newsroom Walls
The internet is destroying the revenue base of traditional publishing. It's not weblogs that are destroying the business model. Wind has been being sucked out of the revenue end since way before weblogs.
Bud posted this on January 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
John Battelle's Searchblog: (Updated) Follow On No Follow: Will "Fully web-expressed writing" Suffer?
A very good discussion of nofollow. Really touches on the implications of denying the information value in comments. Sounds like the cure was worse than the disease.
Bud posted this on January 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service
Here's a way to get your media files automatically distributed by bit torrent. If your download becomes popular, you will not be killed by ISP costs.
Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Nofollow: Think Before You Link
The dynamics of nofollow are hilarious. Now, SEOs are going to put nofollow on everything but internal links to stop pagerank from frittering away.
Bud posted this on January 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ontology repudiates Philology (Kevin Marks)
Basically the emergent system view seems to be winning in the tagging vs. controlled vocabulary debate. Makes sense given the scale of the system. But, also leads to islands of people who get along.
Bud posted this on January 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tags != folksonomies && Tags != Flat name spaces (Clay Shirky)
Where's the innovation here? Tagging seems to be a way of creating convention, particularly if we have to agree on them. The question I have is how does one make tagging innovation propagate?
Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Good post on folksonomy
So, how are people going to figure out how to use these tags? A real issue here is when I say something, do I mean the same thing as when you say it?
Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Enterprise Blogging In Practice
The key point in blogging success is getting critical social mass. It is not a technical issue. What are the benefits to sell this cost?
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
You can't be too thin
A new audio format that will make podcasts more economical.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Innovator's Lemma (Clay Shirky)
A brilliant quote, "classification is a sub-problem of the global publishing phenomenon. We have folksonomies because we have a world where professional classification and controlled vocabularies are as broken as gopher was in 1994."
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Nofollow May Be a Rank Solution
More on the nofollow solution to weblog comment SPAM. The issue is that this cuts both ways. Weblogs are no longer based on everybody sharing in the conversation. This has to reduce their value.
Bud posted this on January 23, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Cornucopia of Cooperation and Social Spillover (Ross Mayfield)
Nail on the head. The real issue in all of this folksonomy fuss is getting people to contribute. People really do have knowledge that it would be good to unlock.