I’m not sure that’s an association I’d be shouting about….

“Some of the best contributors we’ve had to Mahalo’s Greenhouse have been folks who previously worked–for free-on the DMOZ/ODP. Interesting…. :-)”

I thought the editors had gone to Wikipedia

There is a “Best Advice I ever received” blog tag thing happening. Sounds educational to me.

Business-wise, a very successful mentor said:

It’s not how much work you do, it’s how much you get paid to work.

SEL is great, but this list of options on the bottom of their RSS feed posts always makes me grin.

It’s so….exhaustive!

The only option that appears to be missing is “F**k This”….I guess “Fark It” is close enough, though.

• Danny says it’s time for old media to start linking out. I’m applauding - so loud you’ll probably be able to hear it where you are sitting. Linking out is just plain good manners. Failing to link out is just plain rude.
• Zoom.info is a business search engine. They claim they have launched the “first market ready semantic search engine”
• I’m calling April 1st on this from Yahoo!. Since when is Gay Rodeo underground?
• Why journalism matters. “What happens when you have thousands of people wielding the power of the press without any shared principles or standards?”. I don’t think a “blogger code of ethics” is going to go anywhere, though. The co-called “blog problem” is that blogs aren’t journalism. Blogs are conversation, and conversation is messy, opinionated, and off-the-cuff. I liked Aarons take on it.
• This is way off topic, but if there are any musicians/home recording enthusiasts reading this, and you’re after a fully-featured DAW that doesn’t suck, then check out Reaper. It’s free. It’s made by the guy who brought you WinAmp.

• How to work no-follow. “Just because a person came to a site through a no-follow link doesn’t mean they won’t link to you using a clean one”
• Pay-per-post detractors. Amusing rant.
• Barry takes a look at Google Pay Per Action.
• This made me smile.
• Google suggests you swim the ocean.  It should take you 3,462 minutes. At least.
• Does MySpace “earn” 30 Million per month in Adsense revenue?
• Story about receiving the yellow card from Google.

Not sure why anyone would want to do this, but hey…

Spotted on Google Earth.

Interesting, if you can follow it without having a brain meltdown.

“302 Hijacking CAN be back if you want it to be, and it can also help you understand and beat the Domain Status Score“

I’ve been scratching my head about this, but I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Yahoo Pipes looks cool and friendly. It is described as “an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator”. I suppose I need one of those. I guess. It is also described as “…a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by making it easy to chain simple utilities together on the command line“.

My head hurts.

Has anyone created some cool SEM tool examples? I think I’ll need to experiment a bit more. Placed in the “potentially very interesting” pile…

DRM is a dog.

They’ll either dump it now, or waste years blowing hot air and piles of cash, then dump it. Consumers just don’t want a record player than won’t play all records.

Looks like the record companies are coming round, although the same thing can’t be said for Microsoft with Vista.

Funny thing is, the record companies are now going to have to spend much time and money back-spinning their existing spin. Priceless.

Wikiseek, the new search engine based on Wikipedia launched today.

The blurb:

“Searchme, Inc, a new search company backed by Sequoia Capital, today announced the launch of Wikiseek , a vastly improved search engine for the popular reference site, Wikipedia…WikiSeek, a better way to search Wikipedia”

I thought Google was the Wikipedia search engine?

Seriously, this “problem” - searching Wikipedia - is solved by a) going to Google and b) using the command: site:wikipedia.org “search term”. No venture capital from Sequoia Capital required.

So, for Wikiseek to have any point whatsoever, for me, it would need to provide better results than other search services readily available.

So, let’s try it out:

I searched Wikipedia for the term “marketing” using Google, which produced a fairly good list.

I searched Wikiseek for the term “marketing” which produced…..”Clapham, the curved house from Channel4.com/4Homes”. How useful.

To be fair, Wikiseek came back with other marketing topics of interest, although the list wasn’t near as useful as Googles, in my humble opinion, although I’m sure Bruce Clay will be very happy.

Another amusing part of the press release concerns SEOs:

“The service is expected to have significantly less Search Engine Optimization (SEO) spam because only “authoritative” pages, approved by Wikipedia editors, will be included. “

Hmmmm…….I suspect what will happen will be that more SEOs will be trying to get their links into Wikipedia, which is probably easier than getting their links into DMOZ.

“Vastly improved”? “Better”?

I’ll be sticking with the “default” Wikipedia search engine, Google, for the time being.