The Googleplex BlogAn iconoclastic look at Google, research, the Web, the state of the world, and anything at all that interests Harold Davis.Spam Bites Man- July 29, 2006 I am the first to admit that I do not really understand email spam. What kind of blithering idiot really thinks that an illicit fortune in Nigeria will actually be transferred to their bank account, or that some compound will make their sex organs or mammary glands larger, or that something offered in an unsolicited email might actually be a good idea Yet these blithering idiots must exist, otherwise spammers wouldnt bother. On the other side of the fence, what...http://www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000256.shtml Upgrading MovableType- July 28, 2006 I wrote a little while ago about customizing the "skin"---or look and feel---of my Photoblog 2.0. Recently I was confronted with a different task with my Googleplex Blog: upgrading from version 2.6 of MovableType to the latest and greatest version 3.31. MovableType is the software that powers this blog. I upgraded not because I wanted some new bells and whistles (I tend to be pretty conservative about that kind of thing) but rather because I had to: security flaws in...http://www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000255.shtml Building Traffic and Making Money- July 13, 2006 SEO-the common abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization-is, as I've said before, "a wild-west frontier of the Internet: a boisterous new field with burgeoning revenues that employs tens of thousands of people with job titles and descriptions that did not exist five years ago." That said, SEO has come of age, along with its slightly more respectable relative, CPC-or Cost Per Click-advertising via Google AdWords (or elsewhere). Any business, no matter its size, needs to include an Internet...http://www.braintique.com/research/mt-archives/000254.shtml |