Travel madness
Submitted by yelvington on April 17, 2006 - 10:23amFor me, travel always comes in inconveniently packed bunches. There must be some such travel corollary to Murphy's Law. My next three weeks look like this:
For me, travel always comes in inconveniently packed bunches. There must be some such travel corollary to Murphy's Law. My next three weeks look like this:
I took some vacation last week and missed Steve Lohr's email asking me for comment on search optimization. Looking over the resulting New York Times story, "This boring headline is written for Google," a couple of things come to mind:
This spring's graduating class will be part of America's first generation to be forever connected. The story of America is largely one of individual and family migration, and the end of the school experience often was the end of relationships for many as they moved away for jobs and new lives.
"Platform agnostic" is one of those phrases that makes me crazy. Apparently it makes AdAge's Simon Dumenco crazy, too. This week's rant is a must-read, especially for people from the editorial side who may not be tempted to read a journal that focuses on the ad side.
Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Foundation, says the era of packaged commercial software is coming to an end, because open-source alternatives are wiping out the market: "All of your software will be free. It means that, over time, you aren't going to be paying for software anymore but will instead pay for assistance with it."
It's great to hear that the Guardian Unlimited is now officially turning a profit. Many people assume it's easier to make a profit when you're big, but on the Internet things just don't work that way. From where I sit, it seems much easier to build a profitable online news operation on a local/regional scale.
I haven't been blogging much lately because I've been busy on a project. I can't disclose the details yet, but here are some of the issues:
Participation. It's been clear all along that the Internet is a network, not a broadcast channel or a hierarchy, that everyone can participate, and that eventually everyone will participate. Some things that didn't work 10 years ago are now possible because we have the critical mass online to make them work. Hyperlocal community networking would be just one of those things.