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Moon XP Just got this in an email about another subject: Luna, their digital photo application within the OS, and other multimedia functions, looks to me like they are placing software within the OS, and therefore are blocking competitors in these application spaces. I can't believe it ... . The OS in question is Microsoft's new Windows XP. Details, anyone? Another Vu Says here at Monstro that Google only bought Deja's data, not its technology. Got that lead from Ev, by the way. And it lends even more weight, IMHO, to Glenn's position. Today's number is 17 I notice that blogrolling is a successful neologism. (Hmm... how about neolojism, to denote a neologism about which its originator vainly brags?) It'll be interesting to watch usage spread. To do that, go here every few days and see how fast the number goes up. Just call me CalmBoy
Glenn calls me a "coherent version of Chris Locke." Funny, I think of While we're at it, kudos to Glenn for the current blog as well. His won't be the last words on the Deja/Google rollover, but they provide a sober and useful perspective. Winter cleaning I'm wasting my Bookstore page. I am sure it has sold some books for Wordsworth; but it's too much trouble to maintain the code, and it hasn't earned me a penny. Not that I care — I just wanted to support a real-world bookstore, rather than Amazon. Wordsworth was the only great independent bookstore that also sold online (I'm told they've been selling longer than Amazon, in fact). I'll leave the page where it is, so it won't cause 404s, but I'll stop linking to it. Fortunately, Wordsworth also remains a landmark bookstore in its natural habitat, which is Cambridge, Massachusetts. I encourage readers to shop there, and at independent booksellers everywhere. As for affiliate programs, I still think they're a good thing, and that Amazon does a better job at it than anybody else. Even while not promoting Amazon other than with a few experimental links here and there, I recieve a quarterly check of a few dozen dollars. Wordsworth appears to try, but they're not very good at it. Jakob wrote about the problem last August (in an H1 title that read "Why Doc Searls Doesn't Sell Any Books." This got Wordsworth's attention (and mine), after which they wrote and told me they had implemented some of Jakob's recommendations and in fact found that a few books had been sold off inbound links of mine. But I never saw the commissions. So that's one less thing to care about. There are responses to this message:
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