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. […]
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.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Salon has a very interesting piece on blogging’s effect on Google. In it, Steven Johnson wrote: There are significant political consequences to the Blogger Effect: Because the blogging community contains a disproportionate number of libertarians, it’s possible that Google searches on certain hot-button issues will start skewing toward libertarian-friendly pages. Given Google’s […]
We’ve been given the go ahead from O’Reilly, the “…FRIENDLIEST and most WONDERFUL publisher we’ve ever dealt with” (sorry, a little editor tease there), to announce a new book on weblogging! Among the authors is yours truly, writing the chapters on Blogger. I’m joined by Mena and Ben Trott writing about Movable Type, Scott Johnson who’s been dropping […]