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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
Pax Americana 
| | The difference between Baghdad and San Francisco? |
| | Baghdad was liberated from 30 years of an oppressive regime, and now they hope and pray to live in blissful peace. |
| | The residents of San Francisco were liberated from their senses 30 years ago, and continue to reside in blissful ignorance. |
| | (Ah, but how many warbloggers would rather live in Bagdad?) |
| | The sounds I heard coming from Cheney this morning were very encouraging. If we do what he says we're doing, maybe we can restore some level of trust in an Arab world that's still very skeptical. |
| | Right now I'm just looking forward to the day when some Las Vegas theme hotel has a headless statue of Saddam outside one of its bars. |
Lucky
Amazing what you can do without a PR department
The clues keep on coming
| | So now I'm curious: Does Google's AdWords engine give me these ads because it thinks they're appropriate to John's blog, or because it knows I'm the one visiting? I suspect the former, but I don't know. And I think knowing would make a difference. |
| | On his 4/7 post (the permalink is broken for now), John says this: |
| | The Internet is allowing us to connect in a one-on-one way we've been missing since the days of the general store: I can talk to someone inside the company I'm buying from more easily than I can someone next door. Word of mouth (or word of "mouse") is fundamentally changing how we communicate, and what we communicate about. And without a strong connection to our customers, Microsoft will be joining the ranks of Borland, Ashton-Tate, Migent (where I began my high-tech career), and WordPerfect. |
| | Wow. I spent much of the day without phone, computer, network, etc. I was up at Inktomi (now "Yahoo! WebSearch" I think) headquarters learning about lots of cool stuff I cannot repeat with out being killed. |
| | However, I did learn that Inktomi's search system knows, uhm... "stuff" about blogs. And I got the chance to see what some of their tools told me about my blog. Neat stuff. |
| | Tonight we found a Monsanto Company press release. and one from Exxon-Mobil corporation entitled "Avial Selects Exxon Elite Engine Oil for Use in its Husky and Pitts Aircraft") - how is this news? It's even more boring than CNET, whose distinctive headline style it attempts to emulate. But wait - guess who scooped the top lead in the business section? Phillip Morris! |
| | Andrew will be taking his concerns to a meeting with Google, and invites reader input. My advice to Google: simply stop publishing press releases. Trust me (and every other professional journalist): They're junk mail. Alternatively, put up a separate section that's nothing but press releases. That way none of them would masquerade as The Real Deal. |
| | Well, there's a reason they call it "beta." |
There are responses to this message:Re: Wednesday, April 9, 2003, Shelley, 4/9/03; 7:55:25 PM Re: Wednesday, April 9, 2003, Michael Bernstein, 4/9/03; 3:04:31 PM PR Releases Google, Fred Grott, 4/9/03; 7:53:03 AM
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