People like things to make sense. As a species we tend to find comfort and security in order and the routine. Ironically, (or not) we also have a tendency to be fascinated, if not preoccupied, by the strange and the unknown. We delight in the bizarre and if nothing else, the Internet is chock full of the bizarre. Who cares, you ask? The magic 8 ball says to finish reading this article and ask again later.
I was interested in getting some feedback from a conference attendee's perspective and I ran into Michael Rotkin President/CEO of universityloveconnection.com and Hydroponicswholesale.com. Michael's take on the conference was interesting to me given the nature of his sites.
In regard to the article that ran in WebPro concerning Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome ...
One of the final sessions of the day was the "Meet The News Search Engines" and I decided to check out the session. While there weren't huge numbers of people like at some of the other sessions, the information gave some great insight into how the news gathering aspects of the search engines come together.
I chatted briefly with Lisa DiGiacomo at the SES conference about the sale of Clickz and the SES trade show to UK-based Incisive Media.
I am alive and well in San Jose for SES. How was the trip? Well... lemme tell you.
IBM has announced a new anti-spam initiative today. Surprisingly enough, it is actually somewhat reminiscent of Lycos's 'make love not spam' fiasco of a few months ago.
It may be simply an idea whose time has come. It may be that Firefox is making enough noise to raise some eyebrows in Redmond. Either way, it looks like IE7 is on its way.
The 'hit list' is going to be generated by real time black hole services like Spamcop. I don't know how much you guys know about Spamcop and services like them. How reliable are they?
Concern over trademark protection is growing steadily among online advertisers. Who's responsibility is it to protect your trademarks? Should the trademark holders be expected to spend ad dollars to buy their own trademarked terms? What kinds of things should/could search engines do to help alleviate the problems?
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