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I was having so much fun with Googlewhacking today that I didn’t realize until tonight that I called David Weinberger, JOJO the Blog Faced Boy.
My apologies.
Ahem. Ladies, Gentlemen, the correct nom de plume for Mr. Weinberger is JOHO — the Blog Faced Boy.
Mr. Weinberger is of course free to mangle burningbird as he sees fit – verbally, of course.
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What I’m finding about Googlewhacking is that it’s truly amazing how many pages are returned for the most bizarre combinations of words. And the really interesting stuff that can return. However, I think we’ll find that I’m not going to be burning up the scoreboards if I stop and actually look at the results.
Take a look at this one, from the Miama Herald – Come on Baby, light my carrot. With writers like Dave Barry, googlewhacking becomes a very difficult task.
You figure out what words I was using to pull up this gem.
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Googlewhacking is taking over the country. There’s now a point system and rules and everything, and David Weinberger (aka JOHO, the Blog Faced Boy) is the official googlewhackermeister. And a mention by Ed Yourdan — I’ll have to admit, I’m impressed!
But prizes. Where’s the damn prizes?
What do you give a person who is a champion Googlewhacker? And don’t say “…a life” — we all know webloggers don’t have lives outside the blogs.
Prizes. Prizes. We need googlewhacker prizes! I ain’t giving my brain cells away for just blog buzz — we need prizes!
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Davezilla’s review of Blogger Pro.
This is a man after my own heart – go after the hype kernel before it has a chance to shroom to a full hype affair!
I particularly like the “reviews” — see my ole buddy in there?
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Speaking of affordable living, did you know that the American dollar is worth 1.92 Australian dollars at today’s exchange rate? So, if you have an income from the US and lived in Australia, you could indulge in mighty high living.
What do you think, Australia — would you like more yanks in your neighborhood?
Of course, there’s a few hitches along the way. First, Australia has one of the most restrictive immigration policies in the world. If you read the Sydney Morning Herald, it frequently has stories about the refuge problem in Australia, including this one about refuge children in today’s edition.
For some reason, technology people are particularly interested in moving to Australia. I know I was seriously considering it – until I found out how difficult it is for people to move there, especially in these troubled financial times. If you’re interested, I’ll point you to web sites with information on the topic.
I wonder if techies want to go to Australia because we have this impression that the country is the last frontier, the land of the truly free, where any Joey or Jenny can carve their own niche without government intervention. Wake up, Babees! As you’ll read at Jonathon’s weblog as well as this opinion piece about South Australia’s censorship bill and the impact on P2P technologies I did for O’Reilly Network, Australian has some of the most restrictive laws on acceptable Internet content.
Still, there are all those people with them sexy Australian accents…. growrrrrr!
Update: Thanks to Zem for clarification and additional information on censorship, and to Jonathon on the issue of immigration not being the same as a difficult boat people situation.