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Wednesday, October 2, 2002
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 Wednesday, October 2, 2002
started 10/2/2002; 12:24:13 AM - last post 10/2/2002; 9:41:36 PM
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Doc Searls - Wednesday, October 2, 2002 
10/2/2002; 4:24:13 AM (reads: 6012, responses: 4)
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Last minute blogcleaning 
| | I believe we've solved the problem with getting on the blog that's been bothering folks over the last few hours. |
| | Anyway, I've gotta move the office, so blogging will be pretty slow until tomorrow, and not very fast then, either. |
| | Meanwhile, blog amongst yourselves. |
Looking for a 5-way deal on Internet radio
| | The current struggle over royalty rates for Internet radio is being fought between the RIAA, Congress, small webcasters, large webcasters and suppliers like Real Networks and AOL -- not just between the webcasters and the RIAA. The whole complicated mess is unpacked briefly and well by Jon Healey in this morning's Los Angeles Times. (The link is to SFGate, which won't scroll the piece into a fee-access archive in seven days.) |
Enclosure of the Commons
| | It has occured to me before that ... |
| | Well, the rest of this post got chopped off, somehow. Shit. Well, I'll leave it here anyway as a kind of blogmark, so I can get back to it later this week. No time right now. |
All overboard
Fair blogging
Grankings
| | Alain Breillant thinks the name of the blog itself has a lot to do with it. For example, this blog has "Weblog" in the title, while Scripting News doesn't. Dave doesn't agree, since he's experimented around with the name of his blog, to no apparent effect. But I think there's something to it. |
| | Could it be that Weblog Wannabe moved up because "Weblog" is the first name of Wannabe's blog, and the third name of mine? And could that be the reason why Doc Searls Weblog is the #2 Doc result out of 24,300,000, right behind the Department of Commerce? I dunno, but it makes sense. |
| | Makes some kind of sense, name-wise, no? |
| | I see by Dr. Weinberger's JOHO blog that he is no longer the #6 David, but has been pushed down to #25. Yet his blog's tagline is still "David Weinberger's Weblog..." Which leads me to think what Google changed was its degree of caring about taglines, or the weighting it gives to each word to the right of the first one. |
| | Maybe this is akin to an early decision by the Google folks to give very little shit about meta tags, which were (and still are, in many cases) a means by which savvy site authors hack rankings on search engines that look more closely at raw HTML than at what readers see on a page. |
| | Here's an interesting twist, found in my referer logs: a search for "Searles" ("Searls" spelled with an extra e, which is an alternate spelling used by some members of my extended family), still comes up with this. |
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The title of the webpage is definitely relevant to the scores for search hits. Also, the words in the beginning of the page are considered likely to be of more importance, so those also result in higher scores. But what's inside of the anchor tags is also important. Not only is "weblog" present in the title of the "weblog wannabe", but surely it is present in the links to that page.
So, if you, Dave, want to score high on searches for "weblog" and ''Dave'', you should change the title to "Scripting News: Dave Winer's weblog" or something like that.
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Ian Marsman - Re: Wednesday, October 2, 2002
10/2/2002; 3:29:02 PM (reads: 411, responses: 0)
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lou josephs - Re: Wednesday, October 2, 2002
10/3/2002; 1:41:24 AM (reads: 419, responses: 0)
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If the Internet Radio Bill makes it to the floor Friday I have some swampland in Mims Florida for you.
No racing again today...must be the curse of the Swedes as they are the featured race on OTN cable.
The BBC, I and everyone else fell for the "blondes are dying out" hoax. The Post which is running by line less this week had the story in the style section.
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lou josephs - Re: Wednesday, October 2, 2002
10/3/2002; 1:41:36 AM (reads: 480, responses: 0)
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If the Internet Radio Bill makes it to the floor Friday I have some swampland in Mims Florida for you.
No racing again today...must be the curse of the Swedes as they are the featured race on OTN cable.
The BBC, I and everyone else fell for the "blondes are dying out" hoax. The Post which is running by line less this week had the story in the style section.
discuss
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