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Happy beginnings?
| | I had long conversations with both Dave and a friend at Google this afternoon, and I'm highly encouraged. Don't want to say more than that yet, but ... I'm feeling good about lots of possibilities here. |
| | So I guess it's safe to go pick up the kid now. See ya tomorrow. |
These just in
| | My main contact at Google says they aren't doing anything intentional to block weblog listings. |
| | And now Dave just called and said he wants to make sure I'm not blaming Google for anything. He and his folks indeed blocked Google's 'bots because stuff was melting down and the choice was between available sites and listed ones (that's my short version of Dave's longer explanation). What needs to happen now is an engineering-level conversation between his folks and the Google's folks, followed by some kind of fix. |
Beholding
| | On the way to work this morning I stopped to let a snake sleep on the road. It was a long black guy with bright yellow stripes. It was a beautiful thing. While I stopped to just look at it, a jogger ran by, looking at nothing, missing the snake by inches. Amazed me for some reason. |
Goog Dog
| | This is one of those times I'd rather not link to a damn thing. It's one thing to point fingers and quite another to flip them. Sheezis, let's save our bile for the deserving. |
| | Life is beta, folks. Let's chill while we get this thing worked out. |
Dysinfrastructure
| | Craig has been telling me for years that the Web has no directory beyond DNS. Search engines are simply ways to cope with a haystack problem that only real directory infrastructure can fix. And fixing it isn't up to commercial eyeball-aggregators like Google and Yahoo. It's up to developers and users, working together. |
| | Thanks to Google, the time has come to really get going on this problem. Let the conversations begin. |
Against the grain
| | If, as Dave says, Links are the grain of the Web, the platform just broke. As of right now, all my old blogs are invisible: gone. Look up "Doc Searls Weblog" and the blog itself is gone. Not so with Fast, though. Or with others I just checked. Dave says Google isn't talking. |
| | This has the look of the Great Distributariat asserting its influence. Not sure how or exactly why, but there ya go. And there Google goes. Whether by intent or circumstance, this serves up as censorship, and that's flat-out suicidal. I hope they get the clues. I'll try reaching them myself later today. |
This is scarier
| | Google has suddenly de-listed a pile of blog links. More than a pile. It's like a neutron bomb just went off. Searches for my name used to bring up about 13,000 pages, at least half of which were blogs linking to my blog — actuallly to particular days of my blog. Suddenly the number of findings has fallen to less than half, and the top finds look like 1998 again. I read on the Manila-Newbies list that all kinds of sites have been de-listed. Searches for Dave suddenly turn up all the top-level domain stuff, but no finds for particular blog editions. Anybody know what's going on? |
Uh Oh Dept.
Pork exposed
| | While I'm writing a story on "demand side media," I'm listening to one of its best expressions, the great KPIG/107-oink-5, which is so @#$%* awesome I almost can't stand it (especially at 128kb/s). Anyway, a minute ago the station announced that Web listeners (of which I am one) wouldn't be able to hear an ad run on the air because AFTRA wouldn't let them webcast it. Their workaround? Announce the restriction to the world for :30 seconds while pointing to the stations' help page, which gently exposes AFTRA's absurdity. The non-ad, by the way, came not long after one of KPIG's signature fake ads for stuff that doesn't exist. The last one was for the "Society for the preservation of a-holes." Great stuff. |
Showtime
| | Yesterday evening I landed back in Santa Barbara at 5:57, and was in my car at 6:01 when the cell phone rang. It was Jeff Gerhardt and the crew from The Linux Show: we were on the air in a few more seconds, and my Fear & Fudding piece was the show's working background document. I didn't get a chance to say much, though, since this was also the first edition of The Linux Show to feature Richard Stallman, whose advocacy of Free Software has been both fixed and formative since he began expressing it back in the first Reagan Administration. |
| | Apparently Richard gave a speech recently on Copyright that sounded like a worthy link. Right now the audio version is up. A transcription will come later. |
| | Anyway, I lost the signal after about 15 minutes into the show. But it was nice to discover this morning (like, at 3:30am, which is what the clock says right now) that the F&F item is getting inbound links from all over the place. |
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