BurningbirdA previous posting has outgrown its comments, so I’m continuing it here. I said: Webloggers aren’t influencing decisions — they’re influencing the information that influences the decision, and that’s dangerous. When webloggers act as a cohesive group to deliberately influence the position of a link within Google’s search results, this is influencing the information, not the decision. […]
Sometimes it seems that life is found moments of delight interconnected by serendipity. I looked out my window this evening, astonished to see people everywhere, as well as boats crowding the harbor. Checking online, I found that there was a fireworks show in front of my place tonight, the KFOG Kaboom. I could have watched […]
I was playing around with my server earlier, trying out some fun and interesting sounding new techie toys. Unfortunately, the new techie toys required ImageMagick. Those of you with a Unix background are probably going “Oh, No!” about now. I knew I was pushing the bubble with this one, but you only live once. Damn […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The boys are out playing today. AKMA hits a long repartee to Jeff Ward, which was intercepted by Jonathon Delacour. Being quick on his feet, AKMA responds with a lovely back-worded thrust, sudsy hands raised in defense. Weblogging’s favorite twisted cheerleader Happy Tutor then jumps into the game, slamming players in the head while swinging his poms […]
AKMA is going where others (Jonathon, Mike, myself) have gone before. And he goes with far more patience than I would or could, earning my admiration. However, I’m reminded of Ouroboros whenever this same discussion begins anew.