December 31, 2005

Coworking

http://codinginparadise.org/coworking/ Community Office Space for Writers and Programmers
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Canon Lens Rebates

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/photo/canonLensRebates.html "Canon has a yearly amazing rebate program; if you buy three qualifying items you get a 10-30% rebate on all of them."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Free Pentium Computer with Keyboard

http://www.craigslist.org/sby/sys/121748228.html I'm giving away my original linux web server from college! Get it while it's hot.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

ISO Recorder v 2

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a di
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

The Cloud Appreciation Society

http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/ "At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we're not ashamed to say it and we've had enough of people moaning about them."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Bitter Brew

http://www.slate.com/id/2132576/ "I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 AM

December 30, 2005

How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/fraud.html a good intro to click fraud from wired magazine
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel Monitor User Guide

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2405fpw/English/index.htm trying to figure out why mine is fucked
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Marissa Mayer quotes

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/marissa_mayer/ found via Rifkin
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Search is hard

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/12/search_is_hard.html "I think it's inevitable that many users are going to become cynical about the power of search as this problem gets worse (and I think it will) before it gets better."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Adobe Su&#@s

http://toni.schneidersf.com/?p=54 "PDF seemed like a good idea once upon a time, now it’s just another piece of offensive bloatware."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

Wikimedia needs your help

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_needs_your_help Just a few years ago, wikipedia.org was not even a top 10,000 website; now it is in the top 30 with more than 2.5 billion pagehits in November 2005 alone.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

John Battelle Talks to Performancing about FM Publishing

http://performancing.com/node/674 "Federated Media (we call it FM) is something of a mashup of business models, all of which exist to support what might be called "talent" - think of the music labels, agents, book publishers and the like, but without the evil approach to intellectual prop
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/30/web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/ my list is ... zero.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

SoartheRockies.com - Invermere Soaring Center

http://www.soartherockies.com/ "The Invermere Soaring Centre is located in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. We consider it one of the best mountain soaring sites in the world with a wonderful mix of thermals, dynamic soaring and wave."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures

http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/ Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs has been MIT's introductory pre-professional computer science subject since 1981.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

The Perils of JavaSchools

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html "I'm going back to ones and zeros."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

December 29, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog Award

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/index.php?p=2707 congrats to Matt!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Solar Converters Inc.

http://www.solarconverters.com/ Solar Converters Inc. is a manufacturer of highly efficient power control products for the renewable energy field.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

December 28, 2005

The Yahoo chef gets a little adventerous

http://www.grayhatnews.com/node/273 "Oh no, in the Yahoo canteen this Holiday dish of the day was Roast Alien."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:24 AM

Air-Patrol Kft. Zlin 137T Agro Turbo

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=981409&size=L&width=1280&height=972&sok=JURER%20%20(qngrfgnzc%20%3E%20qngr_fho(ABJ()%2C%20VAGREINY%2024%20UBHE))%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20ivrjf%20qrfp&photo_nr=3&prev_id=981474&next_id=981548 towing 4 gliders at once!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

Beware Of Evil Free SEO Software Messing Up Your Computer

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003028.html "After closer inspection I found the little program has overwritten my environmental variables in Windows XP, including the system variables and values."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

StaxRip

http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/ With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

December 27, 2005

Lake Elsinore Soaring Club

http://www.soarelsinore.org/ sacry site, but a good group of pilots it seems
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

rednecksurfing

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3636904060137062287&q=rednecksurfing heh... excellent video of a Dumb White Guy
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Sony MDR-V600 Studio Monitor Series Headphones

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00001W0DI/ possile replacements for my MDR-V6s
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

SONY MDR7506 Studio Monitor Stereo Headphones

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000AJIF4E/qid=1135722617/sr=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/103-9973510-2663014?n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance also psosible replacements for my MDR-V6s
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Tiger Vision gives police an edge

http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln8_1222.html A new infrared night vision device donated to the Burlington police department Wednesday by a local business will help officers shed light on criminals hiding in the dark.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

2005 Foot-in-Mouth Awards

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69904-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_2 just in case you've already forgotton who this year's dipshits were
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

December 26, 2005

Ruby off the Rails

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-ruby/?ca=dgr-lnxw01RubyOffRails Get to know Ruby before you hop on (or off) the Rails bandwagon
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

JVC GZ-MG70 Camcorder Review - JVC Other Media - JVC Camcorders - Camcorder Reviews - Consumer Camcorders - Camcorderinfo.com

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/JVC-GZ-MG70-Camcorder-Review.htm an eye opening review
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Archos AV700: 100GB Mobile Digital Video Recorder

http://www.shoparchos.com/product.aspx?sku=2690790&culture=fr-FR a high-capcity video recorder
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Eject! Eject! Eject!: AREA MAN CONFRONTED WITH A 45; DEFENDS SELF WITH TOY AIRPLANE

http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000094.html "I think every pilot should be required to start in gliders. You never develop any false ideas about pitch and power (because there is no power), you learn how to fly the wing, you spend your entire day in a sixty degree bank 2 knots above a stall, you ge
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

Mom Fights Downloading Suit on Her Own

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051226/ap_on_en_mu/music_download_suit "It was Easter Sunday, and Patricia Santangelo was in church with her kids when she says the music recording industry peeked into her computer and decided to take her to court." The RIAA can burn in hell.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Good and Bad Procrastination

http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html guilty as charged. :-(
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Omnidrive’s Online Storage Actually Works

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/25/omnidrives-online-storage-actually-works/ I told y'all this kinda stuff was coming...!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

December 25, 2005

Can I Crash?

http://www.canicrash.org/ a service that lets you lend your sofa to travelling bloggers!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Machine learning

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning Machine learning is an area of artificial intelligence concerned with the development of techniques which allow computers to "learn". More specifically, machine learning is a method for creating computer programs by the analysis of data sets.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

PyML

http://pyml.sourceforge.net/doc/tutorial/tutorial.html a Python Machine Learning package
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

December 24, 2005

The Year in Tags

http://tagsonomy.com/index.php/the-year-in-tags/ This was a big year for tags.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 PM

webkit2png

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/ webkit2png is a command line tool that creates png screenshots of webpages.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Ouch!!!! Hard landings hurt!

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=147&topic_id=220703&mesg_id=220703&page=2 "One of the major advantages to using Flight Simulator, it doesn't cost anything after making a hard landing. Below are a short series of various hard landings, usually because of a crosswind, that I thought I would share."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Dynamics of Digg

http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2005/12/dynamics_of_digg_1.html There are five groups of people who make digg.com what it is.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Green Vehicle Guide - Listed by Air Pollution Score Within Class

http://www.epa.gov/autoemissions/suv-06.htm good stuff from the EPA
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

How do I remove Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer?

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-08.html In case you're wondering...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

December 23, 2005

Pa. Community Celebrates Festivus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051224/ap_on_fe_st/happy_festivus The celebration of Festivus is alive and well in northwestern Pennsylvania, nearly a decade after the bizarre "holiday" garnered pop culture notoriety on "Seinfeld."
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

Cook with a pants hanger

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/cooking/cook-with-a-pants-hanger-144852.php that's a damned good idea
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

You learn something new everyday

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2005/12/you_learn_somet.html or "how not to transport a tree frog"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Mashup Camp: the unconference about the uncomputer

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2304&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog "My goal for Mashup Camp is to do the opposite of what all these other Web 2.0-esque conferences are doing. It won't be invitation only."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Yahoobar For Opera

http://my.opera.com/coxy/albums/show.dml?id=19957 look, someone made a Y! Toolbar for Opera. Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

December 21, 2005

To Mr. Aisle-Seat Jackass

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/119506393.html "Look, no one likes flying."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:24 PM

The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users

http://www.slackermanager.com/slacker_manager/2005/12/the_several_hab.html "That said, many of the best parts of del.icio.us don't require you to get an account. So if you doubt you'll sign up, continue reading--there's probably something here for you."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

Python Creator Guido van Rossum now working at Google

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8821 what next, Larry Wall?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Google XSS Example

http://shiflett.org/archive/178 "Rather than offer another vague answer, I decided to provide a very simple proof of concept that demonstrates how character encoding inconsistencies can bite you. Google's vulnerability has of course been fixed, but with a simple PHP script, we can repro
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 PM

Gravee Takes a New Approach to Search

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/21/gravee-takes-a-new-approach-to-search/ So now a spammer (err, I mean "SEO") can get money from a search engine by being in the top 10 even if they're never clicked on. I'm in the wrong end of this business!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Reasons Why I Bought The Poker Blog

http://performancing.com/node/482 Reasons that one might buy a blog...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Zeitgeist turning against zeitgeist--time for a new term

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/12/the_zeitgeist_o.php "Google's year-end report is a very weak and skimpy report, and tells us nothing much. And nothing much that we didn't know already, or could have guessed." Agreed.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

Flickr Toys

http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/ Helping you do fun things with your digital camera since 2005.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

December 20, 2005

Adam Rifkin

http://www.ifindkarma.com/ our first victim on Power Source
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Performancing for Firefox

http://performancing.com/firefox this firefox extension rocks!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Fuck You, Josh Stomel

http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=92 This guy is simply stealing people’s blog posts, making slight changes and re-posting them as his own writing.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Graphics Coming to Google Ads

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/20/1431211&from=rss "It was as if a Million Geeks cried out in terror and then were silenced."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

top ten sexiest geeks of 2005

http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2005/12/top_ten_sexiest.html Geeks are sexy. Big, powerful, lubricious, restless brains are just about as hot as it gets -- the brain *is* the biggest sex organ in the body, after all.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

Sharing Your Media With Media RSS

http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/05/46/index4a.html "Originally authored by Yahoo! to improve media enclosures in RSS and also allow the submission of media content to its search engine via RSS, the development of Media RSS has since been opened up to the RSS community through the rss-media mailing list."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

December 19, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny Interview

http://www.seobuzzbox.com/jeremy-zawodny-interview.html SEOBUZZBOX.COM interviewed me about stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

enhance

http://trainedmonkey.com/2005/12/19/enhance "life needs and 'enhance' button"
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

eBay Motors & Google Maps: Find the perfect used car, truck, or motorcycle near you.

http://www.trachtenberg.com/emgm/ Adam built a mash-up that could actually make money for eBay. Cool.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:03 PM

Adium is the Future

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/16/Adium "Software of the future will be Open Source, will have a sophisticated and smart user interface, will take responsibility for making sure it’s up to date, and will meet essential human needs. Like Adium."
Posted by jzawodn at 05:03 PM

December 18, 2005

Google, Yahoo and Dogpile's Top Searches of 2005 List

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/051216-184738 "This really illustrates that lots of searchers don't understand how search works (at even the most BASIC of level)."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:49 PM

Paid Text Links and the Bigger Picture

http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/12/paid-text-links-and-bigger-picture.html "What bothers me about Google’s stance is that they are putting the onus on site owners to improve their search results rather than adjusting their algorithm."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:40 PM

December 17, 2005

Lock-in is bad

http://kalsey.com/2005/12/lockin_is_bad/ "What crack are they smoking? If I bought a wifi camera or phone and discovered that I could only use it at T-Mobile hotspots, I’d be mighty annoyed. Forget the $40 a month part for a minute. You’re telling me that this new camera I bought to connect
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

should i participate in a government panel?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/15/should_i_partic.html "They want to understand how blogs and Friendster work."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

gathering the troops

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/17/gathering_the_t.html "Yahoo! is going through a really strange transformation right now and it's intriguing to be a part of it." ... "Before mainstreamification, Yahoo! used to stand for the people who were rather quirky. It's rather nice to see it moving back in that directi
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

Yahoo! Developer Network - JavaScript Developer Center

http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/javascript/ Do you eat, sleep and breathe JavaScript? This is your source for information for using JavaScript with Yahoo! Web Services APIs.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

Using JSON with Yahoo! Web Services

http://developer.yahoo.net/common/json.html Many of the Yahoo! Web Services provide JSON as an alternate output format to XML. This page describes The Yahoo! Web Services JSON output, and how to use it in your own programs.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

The Poop on Diarrhea Vaccine

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69865,00.html?tw=rss.TEK nice headline
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Oodle

http://www.oodle.com/ The Search Engine for Local Classifieds
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

Google releases GTalk API, Puts Gun To Skype’s Head

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/17/google-talk-puts-gun-to-skypes-head/ Google has just released a set of components called Libjingle that allow third party applications to interact with Google Talk. The components, which include some source code, are being released under a very liberal license allowing for free incorporation
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/technology/16cnd-aol.html "Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before." Holy Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:20 AM

HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2

http://performancing.com/node/429 good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at 09:20 AM

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80 "It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:20 AM

HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2

http://performancing.com/node/429 good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80 "It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/technology/16cnd-aol.html "Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before." Holy Shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:41 AM

HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2

http://performancing.com/node/429 good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at 08:40 AM

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80 "It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:40 AM

HOW TO: Customize WordPress : Part 2

http://performancing.com/node/429 good stuff from performancing
Posted by jzawodn at 08:21 AM

Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005

http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=80 "It's been a huge year for the Web!" No shit!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:20 AM

Konfabulator now Yahoo! Widgets Engine

http://www.tuaw.com/2005/12/12/konfabulator-now-yahoo-widgets-engine/ some people are not happy
Posted by jzawodn at 12:21 AM

Mix 06

http://www.mix06.com/ a microsoft conference with an un-microsoft look
Posted by jzawodn at 12:21 AM

CMS Support For Advertisers? Sponsored links?

http://www.feedblog.org/2005/12/cms_support_for.html "One thing I like is the fact that Jeremy allows comments. Why not take this to another level? Start shipping CMS systems with a 'buy a link' feature integrated directly into the product."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:20 AM

CMS Support For Advertisers? Sponsored links?

http://www.feedblog.org/2005/12/cms_support_for.html "One thing I like is the fact that Jeremy allows comments. Why not take this to another level? Start shipping CMS systems with a 'buy a link' feature integrated directly into the product."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 16, 2005

Garmin: GPSMAP 396

http://www.garmin.com/products/gpsmap396/ it's an amazing GPS unit for pilots
Posted by jzawodn at 11:40 PM

Doctors to Remove Growth from Girl's Face

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=2&u=/051215/ids_photos_ts/r395554352.jpg holy crap!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:40 PM

Google in talks to buy 5 pct of AOL

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/051216/media_timewarner_google.html?.v=7 Web search leader Google Inc. is in exclusive talks to buy a 5 percent stake in Time Warner Inc.'s AOL Internet unit for $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:20 PM

Because I Can: Top Searches

http://danisaacs.com/blog/archives/000558.html "Yahoo! presented its not so Top Ten Searches of 2005. Looking at the list, you'll see it is complete bullshit. So I present for you the real top 10 search phrases."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Airzooka Air Gun

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/60b6/ Launch A Full Air Assault - Without Ever Leaving The Ground!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

December 15, 2005

amusing telemarketing call

http://hard-clan.com/users/canabis/Misc/prank/citibank.mp3 guy gets call from mbna for a visa card and spends a long, long time arguing with the caller
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

A Google Nightmare

http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-nightmare.html "We were concerned about the way people are starting to change their writing styles and subjects to comply with search engine preferences."
Posted by jzawodn at 02:20 PM

Web-based text files with Yahoo! Notepad

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-webbased-text-files-with-yahoo-notepad-142952.php heh. everything that's old is new again
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Yahoo! 2005 Top Searches

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/top2005/ all of the image searches are guys looking for chicks (real or virtual). that's not terribly surprising I guess
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Structured Blogging Will Flop

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002215.html people are lazy!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:01 AM

Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/12/14/corporate-blogging-panel-at-syndicate/ Chad blogs the panel I was on
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Yahoo Won't Correct Billion Dollar Errors

http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2005/12/09.html we really suck at math. but barbie says math is hard, so maybe it's okay?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research

http://news.com.com/Yahoo+hires+DARPA+director+to+head+research/2100-1030_3-5996430.html?part=rss&tag=5996430&subj=news "Yahoo has opened an East Coast research center, hiring an artificial intelligence expert and former director at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to head the office and start similar operations in other countries."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:41 AM

Oh, No, We're Not a Portal

http://www.internetoutsider.com/2005/12/oh_no_were_not_.html what have I been saying for... ages?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:41 AM

Greg Boser Interview

http://www.seobuzzbox.com/greg-boser-interview.html "Once you take away algorithmic visibility, that ideal model collapses pretty quick. It would be virtually impossible for my Father to replicate what he’s done online if he started from scratch today. Google has become so restrictive when in comes to ne
Posted by jzawodn at 07:41 AM

Google whistles a new tune

http://news.com.com/Google+whistles+a+new+tune/2100-1024_3-5995864.html?part=rss&tag=5995864&subj=news " Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 AM

Google, Microsoft to Fund New Internet Lab

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/051215/internet_lab.html?.v=2 "Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience." Stragne bedfellows!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 AM

December 14, 2005

Amazon.com Success Story AdBrite

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/ref=aws_gen_nl14ssna/103-3569205-5494254?&node=16284421 AdBrite using the Alexa APIs to help rate sites that advertisers might want to buy space on
Posted by jzawodn at 10:21 AM

Google Homepage API

http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/ "Create a Module for the Google Homepage" using HTML, JavaScript in an IFRAME
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

My Take on Google’s Ten Rules

http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/?p=376 Jeff Barr’s got an interesting take on Google's rules
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

Cheating Google 101

http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/12/cheating_google.html "I wanted to understand clickfraud a bit better, so I started advertising this blog on Google and trying to see what sort of fraud it could catch. Then when I had finished the experiments I left the ads running. Now I've just checked the latest stats, and
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

December 12, 2005

Bedework

http://www.bedework.org/update.do an open source institutional calendar system
Posted by jzawodn at 11:40 PM

Alexa Web Information Service APIs

http://pages.alexa.com/prod_serv/WebInfoService.html interesting commecial terms they're using
Posted by jzawodn at 11:20 PM

Copulating deaf couple unaware of own volume

http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2005/12/copulating_deaf.html this is the funniest story I've read all week. Deaf couple has sex loudly and wakes up everyone within several hunred yards.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:20 PM

Konfabulator 3.0 Goodness

http://toni.schneidersf.com/?p=51 There’s a new version of Konfabulator, now called Yahoo! Widgets, available at widgets.yahoo.com.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

A Yahoo! Company

http://mike.teczno.com/ayahoocompany/ resistance is futile... you will be acquired.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

A VC: Online Backup's Inflection Point

http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/12/online_backups_.html "I have been using online backup for over ten years in my home. I have even used it over dial-up. You just let the backup go over night." Bingo.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 AM

spew

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/?z=post&y=archives/003304 "when it comes to something like a digital camera, Asians will do anything - anything - to win" heh
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 AM

Yahoo 360 revisited

http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/152_Yahoo_360_revisited.html "Now, almost the only thing my friends seem to be using it for is to point to their real blogs -- which I read anyway -- or lame feeds, which I don't want to read."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 11, 2005

Firefox users ignore online ads, report says

http://news.com.com/Firefox+users+ignore+online+ads,+report+says/2100-1024_3-5479800.html I should add some tracking code to my site...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Yahoo to buy Tivo?

http://www.hughes-family.org/wordpress/2005/12/11/yahoo-to-buy-tivo/ would that mean I'd have to own a tivo again?
Posted by jzawodn at 09:21 PM

To Promote a Cable Network, a Plan to Inundate the Internet

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/12/technology/12msnbc.html?ex=1292043600&en=d738d2017a9416a6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "The MSNBC cable network plans to flood the Internet this week with its largest concentrated online pitch, running advertising on hundreds of Web sites and blogs." Fuckers.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:20 PM

It's just a goddamned piece of paper

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!” (beware lame pop-up on that site)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:20 AM

The efficacy of time-constrained hacking

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2005/12/10/time-constrained-hacking/ less time == more efficient hacking
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Filemon

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html it's kinda lika lsof for windows, but without the stdin/stdout fun
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

A camera that has it all? Well, almost

http://news.com.com/A+camera+that+has+it+all+Well%2C+almost/2100-1041_3-5990286.html?part=rss&tag=5990286&subj=news David Pogue reviews the new Sony R1 and it sounds like Sony is really shaking things up with this unit!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 AM

December 10, 2005

Writely

http://www.writely.com/ The Web Word Processor. Beta, of course. It's Web 2.0, ya know?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:40 PM

Google Increased Ad Font Size

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-10-n86.html mo money, mo money
Posted by jzawodn at 01:20 PM

The Elements of Platform Leadership

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2002/spring/5/ Nowhere is the growing interconnectedness of business more clear than in the information-technology industry, where the success of any one company's innovation is dependent on the activities of a complex web of partners.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Google vs Yahoo vs MSN vs AskJeeves

http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-vs-yahoo-vs-msn-vs-askjeeves.html "The search landscape, built almost entirely on advertising revenues, is changing at the speed of cash."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:40 AM

December 09, 2005

Yahoo! becoming a Web 2.0 Poster Boy

http://woodrow.typepad.com/the_ponderings_of_woodrow/2005/12/yahoo_becoming_.html All of the sudden Yahoo! has become an important component of my daily life in too many ways to discount. Not a day goes by that I don't use Flickr or del.icio.us; and now they're part of the Yahoo! family. Add to that a pretty decent new RSS aggregator,
Posted by jzawodn at 11:20 PM

rsstroom reader

http://www.djspyhunter.com/teapot/uploaded_images/rsstroom_reader_restroom-761230.jpg rss on toilet paper! I needs me one of these machines...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Great Tastes That Go Great Together

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000223.html And as of today, del.icio.us is part of the Yahoo! family.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:08 AM

del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!

http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/12/yahoo.html yahoo buys del.icio.us
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

December 08, 2005

my year in twelve cut-and-paste sentences

http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/574964.html oh, I think I'm gonna do something like this too. It'll be fun to see if I can pick just one sentence for each month...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:40 PM

San Fransocial

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/12/06/san-fransocial/ instead of the old chat, look at each other in the eye, sip, drink, speak, listen, respond and on and on, you have these myriad verbal, non-verbal and digital communication methods happening simultaneously, spontaneously and asynchronously.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:40 PM

To a Long and Happy Life

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,69789,00.html?tw=rss.TEK Half of Americans in the 55-to-64 age group — including the oldest of the baby boomers — have high blood pressure, and two in five are obese. That means they are in worse shape in some respects than Americans born a decade earlier were when they were
Posted by jzawodn at 05:40 PM

Feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse, eh eBay?

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2005/12/the_ink_on_ebay.html heh, maybe voip will soon just be free like everything else on the Internets
Posted by jzawodn at 05:20 PM

Yahoo Answers - Are they out Googling Google?

http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/yahoo-answers-are-they-outgoogling.html I think the services are actually quite different, mostly because of the incetive structures.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Why should I search on Yahoo! rather than on Google?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjB8bCUFaU2QkyTaGw_CxSLpy6IX?qid=1005120800232 it took no time for someone to ask the obvious question on Yahoo! Answers
Posted by jzawodn at 08:20 AM

Donate a Computer to Computer Recycling Center

http://www.crc.org/ Computers & Education reuses computers, and Computer Recycling Center promotes the highest and best re-use of computer and electronic equipment, and recycles unusable items to keep them out of landfills.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:20 AM

Network effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect The network effect causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Metcalfe's law states that the total value of a good or service that possesses a netwo
Posted by jzawodn at 08:20 AM

Google's butt-ugly interface design

http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2005/12/grokking_google_2.html As Google moves into different, more complicated application services, particularly those with a desktop component, its weakness in interface design will hinder its ambitions.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:20 AM

December 07, 2005

Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html interesting viewpoints in the comments too
Posted by jzawodn at 10:40 PM

Google Transit

http://www.google.com/transit just launched
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

The Japanese game to end all Japanese games

http://www.invertedcastle.com/archives/2005/12/01/the-japanese-game-to-end-all-japanese-games/ Yes. A fighting game where panty-shots are the core mechanic.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Asking the Internet

http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000221.html We want to give anyone a place to tap the collective wisdom of the Internet for advice, recommendations, theories, jokes, ... whatever. Anyone can answer. It's free.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Drinking the Google Kool Aid?

http://joeduck.blogspot.com/2005/12/drinking-google-kool-aid.html With Yahoo now equal in search quality and MSN and AskJeeves equal within months or a year at most, the division of advertising revenues will challenge Google, making it hard to grow faster than the rate offline advertising money pours online.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:20 PM

No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43214 Replacing us with machines will increase profits, but can a dollar value be placed on the labors of someone who drinks before his morning shift just to get through the day? And when the machines are sitting in six-inch-deep gore at day's end, will they go
Posted by jzawodn at 04:40 PM

Tripping the Yahoo Fantastic

http://gigaom.com/2005/12/05/tripping-the-yahoo-fantastic/ Om wonders what Yahoo is...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

Introducing JSON

http://www.crockford.com/JSON/index.html JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 05, 2005

RFC 4287

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 The Atom Syndication Format
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Yahoo! Related Books

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/books.cfm check it out! Yahoo is pimping my book. kick ass.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

What's New in ModSecurity

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2005/12/01/modsecurity.html This article describes the most important new features in ModSecurity 1.9.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Buying Search Traffic

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/04/Search-Momentum pretty soon the traffic will be dealt out totally based on who’s willing to pay the most for it
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

James Burke's KnowledgeWeb Project

http://www.k-web.org/ an expedition in time, space, and technology to map the interior landscape of human thought and experience
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 PM

Sage: a feed reader for Firefox

http://sage.mozdev.org/ Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

SuprGlu - Gluing your life together.

http://suprglu.com/ Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

basic bread

http://trainedmonkey.com/2005/12/5/basic_bread Jim publishes hs bread recipie. I need to cook more.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Yahoo! Japan Developer Network

http://developer.yahoo.co.jp/ kick ass! I didn't know they were doing this...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

December 04, 2005

Cats in Sinks

http://catsinsinks.com/ pictures of cats in sinks. because... why not?
Posted by jzawodn at 10:40 PM

AI and banner ads

http://www.livejournal.com/users/brad/2181198.html That's like saying, "We've invented a cheap, safe car that runs on water, and also flies, but our actual business model is creating 2" large plastic replicas for sale in McDonald's Happy Meals."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

How is Yahoo My Web 2.0 doing?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-is-yahoo-my-web-20-doing.html "It seems that there may be just a few thousand people using Yahoo My Web 2.0."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Free blog hosts

http://www.blackhat-seo.com/2005/free-blog-hosts/ Blackhat SEO saves you time in your mad linkfarm building game
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Froogle: Shopping Made Complex

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2005/tc20051205_849495.htm "Froogle, turns three years old this month. That's nearly an eternity online. Yet all that time hasn't helped the site gain much ground in the hotly contested field of comparison-shopping sites."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:40 PM

Worst Job Ever (video)

http://media.putfile.com/Worst-Job-Ever amusing as hell!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:40 PM

New bookmarklet: Make img tag

http://www.squarefree.com/2005/12/03/new-bookmarklet-make-img-tag/ I've been tempted to write something like this dozens of time.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:40 PM

Palmdale Missing Glider Found

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_338115547.html I've flown there before. There's some nasty terrain nearby.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:40 PM

LISA '06 Checklist

http://blog.megacity.org/archives/002133.php Anyone who thinks "going to a conference" means "doing nothing" has never been through six days of LISA, believe me.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:20 PM

Bush gets jury duty call, says he is busy

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=10469907&src=rss/oddlyEnoughNews President George W. Bush had to explain that he was a little busy running the United States when he got called for jury duty.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:20 PM

December 03, 2005

Yahoo! Recommends Hate-Blogging Your Boss

http://yahoo.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000207070757/ DOH!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:40 AM

December 02, 2005

Why Yahoo's marriage of RSS and e-mail could be an antispam breakthrough

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2222&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog I'm skeptical but willing to be convinced...
Posted by jzawodn at 09:20 PM

December 01, 2005

The Truth About Click Fraud

http://www.webguerrilla.com/checkbook-seo/click-fraud/ Greg's gonna build a clickbot and collect data.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Google Gets 3 Out of 10

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-12-02.html#n72 Oh, come on... I'd give 'em at least a 5. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 PM

Bill of Rights - Security Edition

http://www.securityedition.com/ The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:40 PM

Chitika publishers see drastically reduced earnings in audited reports - JenSense.com

http://www.jensense.com/archives/2005/12/chitika_publish.html Chitika fit is hitting the shan it seems
Posted by jzawodn at 04:40 PM

An Apology Letter From Ed Lopez, Owner of PriceRitePhoto

http://thomashawk.com/2005/12/apology-letter-from-ed-lopez-owner-of.html sleezy on-line merchant: 0; angry web people: 1
Posted by jzawodn at 04:40 PM

G2G uses GMail for file sharing

http://www.tipmonkies.com/2005/12/01/g2g-uses-gmail-for-file-sharing raise your hand if you think this will last...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

The Geek Gorgeous Calendar featuring Women in Technology

http://www.geekgorgeous.com/index.htm you know, I had this same idea years ago... seriously.
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Photomatt Mullenweg shares his VC-fed secrets

http://www.geekentertainment.tv/2005/11/30/photomatt-mullenweg-shares-his-vc-fed-secrets/ a quick interview with Matt
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Noticing Performancing Ads On Blogs

http://www.webproblog.com/pub/2005/12/noticing_performancing_ads_on.html Rich noticed my new sponsor...
Posted by jzawodn at 01:40 PM

Yahoo's strategy: Stay out of Microsoft's crosshair?

http://news.com.com/Yahoos+strategy+Stay+out+of+Microsofts+crosshair/2030-1069_3-5977397.html?part=rss&tag=5977397&subj=news Yahoo's position as primarily a media company is likely to keep it quietly at the forefront of the next generation of World Wide Web players, say experts at Wharton.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:40 PM

Will Ferrell: Earth to America

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38792/ one of my favorite comedians, making fun of Bush
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

This Place Sucks

http://www.vsocial.com/video/?d=160 heh, a very funny vido re-using some voices from Office Space
Posted by jzawodn at 07:20 AM