- Search engines like the word Microsoft
- People like Microsoft and Dinosaur in the same phrase
- Putting the names “Dave Winer” or “Robert Scoble” in any post raises its visibility
Month: March 2005
SCOBELIZED!
I make a crack about wishing I got as many hits as Scoble.
Scoble grants me a quick burst of pixie dust. [here]
WHAMMO!
Now, this may not seem like a lot, but I am very stringent with the filtering I do on my blog logs to make sure I am eliminating all the proxies, poseurs, micreants, bots and other vermin.
Removing some of the filters produces stats like these:
DATE COUNT -------------------- 03/01/2005 371 03/02/2005 357 03/03/2005 249 03/04/2005 361 03/05/2005 325 03/06/2005 275 03/07/2005 219 03/08/2005 258 03/09/2005 274 03/10/2005 289 03/11/2005 215 03/12/2005 190 03/13/2005 204 03/14/2005 265 03/15/2005 239 03/16/2005 333 03/17/2005 380 03/18/2005 365 03/19/2005 481 03/20/2005 718
Thanks Scoble! But I was really after the contents of Joi Ito’s laptop bag!
Yahoo gets Flickr
Worst kept secret on the net is now out — Yahoo! has purchased Flickr. [here and here]
Guess I should get either a decent mobile phone or a digital camera…
And I am so &*^*&^*&^ clueless that I didn’t even know that Flickr was
- Canadian
- From Vancouver
Well, if I can’t cheer for the Canucks, it’s good to have someone else to cheer for.
Another Happy Mac User…NOT ME!
Doug Kaye, the guy who wrote my favourite book on Web hosting, just grabbed himself a new 15″ G4 Powerbook. [here]
I am turning green out here…Donations and sponsorships are gratefully accepted!
Dave Winer — Two-Level Communities
Dave Winer hits it on the head: What’s the point of doing something or going somewhere if your experience is going to be secondary to those who are considered “special”?
A conference experience should not be substantively better because of who you are. If you arrive late, the overflow room should be just as acceptable as the front row.
I live what would be considered a privileged life. If you look on the right-side of the page, you will see that I pine for a Powerbook. Instead, I keep gas in my tank, food on my table, and be the best father I can be.
I wish that my laptop bag looked like Joi Ito’s. I wish that I clocked as many air miles as Tom Peters. I wish I lived on the beach like Dave Winer. I wish my blog got as many hits as Robert Scoble.
But when my wishes are held back not because of who I am, but because of who someone else is, I get cranky.
Mmmm…let’s call our customers dinosaurs!
The Site! The Site! OMG! The site is even more insulting! Bring on the firing squad!HERE! [Flash Link – NO LONGER WORKS]
I agree with this post: The team that created the Microsoft Dinosaur campaign need “to be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes”. [here]
The campaign is insulting. The campaign does not inform. The campaign makes me feel that I work for a backward company (even if it is in the Fortune 100).
And the campaign is greedy. Microsoft is no longer making any money from those Office 97 and 2000 licenses, so it has to figure out how to keep the gravy train flowing. Problem is…can you make any of these already heavily bloated apps better?
Yes, I know that there are great new features, blah, blah, blah. Don’t care. Don’t Need them.
And OpenOffice is only 80MB to download for free. And it generates PDFs on the fly without an add-on piece of software.
Hmmmm…the emperor has no clothes.
Blogging synchronicity strikes again. Read this little gem about 30 seconds after I completed the original post. Pretty much nails the state of Microsoft’s cash cows.
And this from someone on a MSFT blog.
Tamiani Trail Synchonicity
I cashed in the last of my Triple B bonds
Warren Zevon
Bought a double-wide on the Tamiani Trail
I parked it right outside the reservation
Fifteen minutes from the Collier County Jail
And the SEC is far behind
Down in the swamp with the gators and flamingos
A long way from Liechtenstein
I’m a junk bond king playing Seminole Bingo
Well, the SEC is far behind
Down in the swamp with the gators and flamingos
A long way from Liechtenstein
I’m a junk bond king playing Seminole Bingo
Seminole Bingo
I was listening to this song while reading this.
You don’t often have a synchronistic experience involving the Tamiani Trail. And after reading the post, and listening to the song, I can almost feel the swamp surrounding me as I wade through the primeval much searching for my lost dabber, absorbing the desperate failure in the eyes of the bingo zombies and other refugees and outcasts from the Great Society.
More Thoughts on the HTTP(S) Application Concept
Yesterday, Scoble noted (and I validated) the idea that the browser is less and less relevant for those of us on the bleeding-edge.
In the blogs that I read, people access information:
- Via mobile phone
- Via PDA
- Via data aggregators
- Via IM
- Via e-mail
- Via personal interaction
Web sites are now targets of information, not providers of information. I increasingly hear of new ways for HTTP(S) to be a conduit of information, not limited to the browser.
Port80 is used by so much more than it was designed for. Extensible browsers attempt to lock customers into the old way of approaching this information. The decade-old paradigm is disintegrating.
My main Web access is through FeedDemon. I use my browser to write, check e-mail and check my server stats. This is very different from 2 years ago, where in lived in the browser.
Two years from now…where will I be spending my online time?
My name…in Flickr Photos!
I chose this one because the “H” comes from a British Columbia License plate. Heh.
Very Cool. Play with it here!
Found by Peter Davidson.