Social Search Issues

Digg is in a way a social search site, focusing on highlighting content that has a “buzz”.Anyway in researching it I cam across a couple of interesting posts highlighting the challenges that these sites have created and how an insdustry of spammers has been created much like search spammers, now we have tag spammers. There … Read more

This must have hurt

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/12/failing_a_gende.html

More about the GPA hack….

Here is the original conversation, I nearly died reading about the pigeons and squirrels. This guy is clearly going to be president one day.

Why….

…is there an offical Smurf web site? My grandmother used to work for Shell Oil when they gave away Smurfs, it was the coolest thing to go vist and come back with arm fulls of the critters.

Split my sides laughing

I don’t know how I found this blog but it replays the story of a very sad individual trying to “hack” someone who has made him made and ends up erasing his own hard drive.

Crawl Research

Do you ever get sent a link and are fearful to click on it as it looks highly in appropriate for work? Here is one of those http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/ it is actually a really useful page which details some awesome research into the behavior of web-crawl technology. I wish I could see how this would look … Read more

iTunes and Vista

Yesterday I was sitting on a plane with Emma and we were trying to watch a movie I had downloaded on iTunes. The gremlins were preventing me from doing this, I was having issues with Authorization.I found a useful discussion which pointed me to run iTunes as administrator which then cleared it up.I also discovered … Read more

Geek and Poke

I saw this while reading an amusing article about Web 2.0 and thought I would share it with you

Kenny Rogers

At our office holiday party someone told me about this Jack Ass Video on You Tube. If you like Jack Ass you will love this.

Sisters Blog

My sister has started a blog at the request of her work.