Jargon Buster: "If you're confused by conjugation and puzzled by the postpositive then our jargon buster should help you cut through the technical terms and grab hold of grammar, literary terms, and other such bamboozlement."
Dennis Hwang: The man behind Google's cutesy special event logos.
"There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions; and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government." - Voltaire
Good morning! Looks like the webserver maintenance is almost finally over!
Jakob Nielsen: Deep linking is good linking.
Happy Birthday to me. "A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
An anaylsis of the Church of Scientology's supremacy over the search term "Scientology" on Google.
Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, joined Google in January 2000. Here in this interview he answers many questions: "What a great question. I think Google is moving more into "freshness" recently. We've started to crawl millions of pages each day, and our users really like that. I don't know whether we'll specifically do something special for weblogs. We'll have to see how many users ask for features like that; we love reading weblogs, so it might make sense to index them someday. "
"Slashdot's going subscription! The new Slashdot will feature humungous, annoying advertisements ("We really don't have an option: these are what advertisers want, and if we don't provide them, we won't be around much longer."), but you don't have to look at 'em. For every $5 you feed to your /. subscription, you'll get 1,000 ad-free pageviews. I wonder if a $5 PPM is competitive with what they expect advertisers to pay 'em." from Boing Boing
A four star review of Gonzo Marketing by Thomas Claburn: "Solo albums seldom surpass those of the original band; the whole usually proves greater than the sum of its parts. But with the publication of Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices (Perseus, 2001), Christopher Locke trashes that assumption and just about everything else."