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What Happened to Online Privacy

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Michael Arrington•Privacy•Quotes•Tumbling December 20th, 2009

Michael Arrington on the topic of online privacy.

Back in 2006 people still had a notion of privacy online, particularly around contact information. Today those walls are crumbling. People share information today without blinking that they never would have considered sharing in the past. Things that bother us today probably won’t matter much this time next year.

It might seem a lost battle in the mindset of people, but the more information is readily available the more people will become aware of sharing less. Expect big battles with law makers in countries such as Germany.

Lists, Why They Are Popular

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Umberto Eco•Writing November 21st, 2009

In an era where the criticism against lists is increasingly growing, writing legend Umberto Eco comes to the rescue of lists.

The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right.

HTML Is Still Too Complicated

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Code•Design•history•HTML•Internet•Mark Pilgrim November 4th, 2009

Reading Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Why do we have an img elelment it is simple to understand that HTML still too complex is. But HTML 5 is one step in the good direction.

Why I Still Don’t Use External Comments or Any Other External Services

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Duncan Riley•Linking•WebApps November 2nd, 2009

Duncan Riley after all the problems The Inquisitr had.

Posts are an issue. Content is up <7 seconds but the full page is way too long (18s). The biggest problem is JS-Kit, and loading icons for each comment, for example hits to FriendFeed for icons can add 5-10 seconds to load time. I’ve asked them for the option to cut the icons out, crossing fingers.

The New York Yankees are Like Microsoft

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Gruber•Links•Tumbling October 27th, 2009

Greg Knauss in a great comparison. Does this make Yankees fan Gruber the Scoble of the Indie bloggers?

Two-thousand was the last time the Yankees managed to win a championship. And it was awfully close to the last time that that Microsoft managed to produce a version of Windows that anybody cared about. And, hey, both the Yankees and Microsoft have long histories of dominating their professions, and of using that dominance to run up huge payrolls with — let’s be honest here — a near-decade of lackluster results.

What’s Wrong With Blogging (P1)

0 comments Filed in Problogging•Tumbling Tagged with Blogging•Dan Cederholm•Quotes October 23rd, 2009

Dan Cederholm. Expect more to come on the title over the next weeks.

“I’d like to post here more often — not just to fill up bits and bytes, but to write again. Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise “99 Answers to Your Problem That We’re Telling You You’re Having”. Yeah. I’d like to get back to that here.”

On SEO and Their Value

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Derek Powazek•Linking•Opinion•Quotes•SEO•Tumbling October 12th, 2009

Derek Powazek on SEO: Is SEO needed and is it ethical?

And so, like the goat sacrificers and snake oil salesmen before them, a new breed of con man was born, the Search Engine Optimizer. These scammers claim that they can dance the magic dance that will please the Google Gods and make eyeballs rain down upon you.

Do. Not. Trust. Them.

The problem with SEO is that the good advice is obvious, the rest doesn’t work, and it’s poisoning the web.

Sarah Lacy on Seth Godin’s Brand

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with Marketing•Seth Godin•Smart September 26th, 2009

Brilliant closing line by Sarah Lacey (probably her first interesting line in many years):

We were going to reach out to Godin yesterday, but instead figured we could write this story by aggregating what everybody in the world thinks of Squidoo, and then asking him to pay us $400 to remove the parts he may not agree with.

What most have missed though is the huge marketing campaign, even if not entirely positive, the Squidoo Brands release aggregated in only 2 days. Marketing Guru Seth Godin 1 – 0 ‘tIntarwebz.

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