Chances are, you can ignore this… It’s probably useful only to me:
- May 2003 / odd days
- June 2003 / even days
- July 2003 / odd days
Resume normal operation… Now!
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CTRL-D Considered Harmful
The scene is an imaginary tech support transaction…
user: This web site keeps making my browser quit!
support: Can you tell me exactly what happens?
user: Well, I went to the site, and it was full of good information, and it said ‘PRESS CONTROL-D TO BOOKMARK US!”
support: And what did you do?
user: I held down the Control Key, and then pressed the D key…
support: And what happened?
user: The browser quit!
support: Hmmm, what browser are you using?
user: Lynx!
support: ???
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Jon’s Experimental Journalism
Dear publishers of print magazines, who just happen to also have web sites, please read what Jon Udell has to say in this piece on experimental journalism.
Did you read it? Ok, good… Did you get any new ideas?
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The Pilgrims
I forgot to post my photos from the Pilgrim Wedding. Unfortunately my digital camera got a digital jam and I only managed to get one good picture before my non-standards-compliant camera started spewing error messages and stopped working… Enjoy!
Mark and Dora
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Goodbye Google?
The Guardian Unlimited has an article about the whole weblogs/Google controversy, and this one line really stood out to me:
It is a simple task for us to switch search engines if our trust is abused.
Is it such a simple task? Sure, I’ve set my default search engine to AlltheWeb right now, and there are others to choose from, but this really only handles the basic web searches. If you use the Google Web API for anything, you probably know it’s a cool thing, but do other engines offer anything similar? Would you have to re-write your apps? Does AlltheWeb’s Advanced Search match up against Google’s Advanced Search? People use the term google as a verb – “Did you google for an answer?” and some recently released browsers have a Google toolbar built into them…
Don’t get me wrong, Google is a great search engine (I’ve even got a Google t-shirt somewhere, and have been known to wear it from time to time) and I still use it, but I’d really prefer to not become completely reliant upon it. Reliance upon any one entity for something isn’t always a good thing. (Microsoft, Apple, etc.)
So back to the statement, that it will be a simple task to switch search engines, for some people it will be simple, and for some applications it will be simple, but if Google disappeared from the web today, could you easily switch search engines and not notice a difference, and still find what you’re looking for?