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Monday, August 2, 2004
Day tripping 
| | Driving up to San Francisco for LinuxWorld Expo today. I'll be there all week. |
Loose links
Department of Corrections
| | Nothing wrong with that, except for the inevitable way in which language gets distorted in any such game of Telephone. By the second degree of separation, the post was already being characterized as "Greenfield: Technorati Sucks," and the like. I can't help but find that dismaying, but like it or not it's a fact of the way we share information. |
| | Sadly, you can be sure that this post will not follow its sibling's meteoric path to visibility. Such is the way of all follow-ups, be they expansions, corrections, retractions or outright debunkings. Nevertheless, I want to publicly thank Dave and Kevin for having attended to my complaint and done so with grace. Again, I wish them and their team success. |
| | My own take: When you're scaling into the frontier at breakneck speed, sometimes you (and your users) get whiplash. And even your successes may be invisible. Any percentage of downtime looks the same to the user whether they're one among fifty or one among fifty million. |
| | I know the Technorati folks have been working their butts off to fix things (I'm on their advisory board), and the service does seem more solid to me lately. On behalf of good work being done by small independent developers everywhere, I invite users to keep coming back and offering helpful feedback and input. |
Time shift radio
Backtalk
| | To live outside the U.S. is not to escape its influence. The only remaining superpower (which in unexpected ways it isn't, but never mind) has what we might call a media surplus, especially in the entertainment business, which now also includes news. |
| | Talk to US is focused on a huge problem, and opportunity: American politics affect the whole world, yet non-Americans have few ways to communicate directly with mainstream America. As the US approaches an historic election, the "Second Superpower" - international public opinion - is unheard. |
| | Talk to US is a non-partisan public benefit organization seeking to expand US-international dialogue by inviting the opinion of all those affected by our decisions. We are collecting 30-second video messages from around the world, with the most powerful to be broadcast nationally, starting with Link TV (which reaches more than 20 million homes). |
| | Advice to the talktoUS folks... |
| | Though this is a good and worthy effort, video is a weak way to get your points across. Better to aggregate blogs, or links from blogs. Use RSS to advantage. Link profusely. Get the news-passers of the world to convey your messages to the folks who will put them in newspapers and magazines, and on networks that undecided voters might watch. Link TV is a nice network. We get it on Dish TV here at our house. We don't watch it (or much of anything, frankly). It's the Pacifica Radio of television: exclusively for those on the Absolute Left. I doubt you'll sway a single vote there. |
Dinars on the Dollar
It's our story
Publicity 201
| | Mark Cuban introduces IceRocket, a new search engine... on his blog. He's already getting piles of useful feedback in the comments section of the same venue. |
Continued training
| | Having read a few chapters, I'd heartily recommend it - especially to those who manage large organizations (and fans of The Cluetrain Manifesto). |
| | If you're a CXO, there are no better blogger models than Jonathan and Mark Cuban. Even (or especially) if you disagree with them, because they give you a lot to work with, in their own unfiltered voices. |
| | In the long run, expect their blogs to become model forms of executive behavior, as well as documentation. |
Old dog, old tricks
| | "As you read the site and click on more articles, the Newsbot will start to learn your habits and offer up more information related to what you have read," said Justin Osmer, MSN product manager. |
| | Another key difference between the Microsoft and Google services is that Google's story-selection formula doesn't favor any particular new source. MSN Newsbot, by contrast, gives favorable placement to articles from Microsoft's own MSNBC.com news site -- late Friday afternoon, half of Newsbot's 22 front-page stories came from MSNBC.com. |
| | Osmer didn't appear aware of this preferential treatment in an interview, but an MSN spokeswoman later confirmed it in e-mail. "As Newsbot resides on MSNBC and is branded as such, MSNBC is considered a first among equals, meaning that if they and another top-tier source offer the same story, information, etc., MSNBC will be listed first, followed by other sources," wrote Elizabeth Herrera Smith. |
| | The story opens with this bit of one-upsbotship: |
| | Google News continually scans 4,500 online sources to find fresh news articles; Microsoft scans 4,800 sites and updates its summary pages every 10 minutes. |
| | So how about listening to some RSS feeds from three million other potential sources of news? If Microsoft really wants to leapfrog Google, that's the way to jump. |
You are what they aren't
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