hooray for mom, apple pie and google . it appears that yesterday’s flap over google’s directory rankings was, indeed, an innocent aberration to be blamed on the fact that googlebot actually obeys the exclusionary principle.
Monthly Archives: September 2000
i’m almost embarrassed at how funny i find newbie blog chat.
[via zeldman]
i’m just going to pretend for now that this is all just some sort of mathematical fluke:
“Last November, as reported in Google likes directory sites, I discovered that Google had the uncanny ability to sniff out high-quality, but little-known directory sites. As I discussed in that article, Google was able to do this because it ranks sites according to how many people make links to them, and smart people everywhere learn that directories are important, so they make many links to them. Now, however, I’ve found solid evidence that Google’s new alliances, especially the pact with Yahoo! that was announced in June, seem to have compromised its ability to find directories.”
i don’t know why xml-based protocols have been capturing my eye so much lately. if i get any free time at all, maybe i’ll munge around xmethods and see if there is anything of interest:
“Standards like XML and SOAP make it easier for systems to make remote procedure calls across the Internet. For example, corporate systems will allow customers to make calls that check real-time inventory levels. Your car’s navigation system will check local traffic reports when planning the quickest route. These are all “services”. This site helps you find services that are publicly accessible.”
crap. dark clouds are hanging over the nascent snowdeal.org media empire. taylor has removed me from his list of regularly visited sites. and what do i get replaced with? “frivolous gaming sites”. oh, that’s just great. actually this is my first experience with something that feels close to rejection and i don’t like it! taylor, please come back. i’ll be interesting. you’ll find stuff here that you won’t at those silly “frivolous gaming sites”. honest. sniff.
first pixels are recommended as the format to specify font sizes, then i learn of the death of the websafe color palette. my safe, secure web world is crumbling before my eyes.
ooof. it’s a good thing i ordered the extra large annotated bookmark bin [and no smartypants, despite evidence to the contrary, this is not going to turn into ‘all rss all the time’]:
oreilly network rss moves forward
oreilly network writing rss 1.0
oreilly network rss delivers the xml promise
davenet what to do about rss?
and in related news – ever wondered if you annotate your photos with rdf? well the w3c has a technical note on describing and retrieving photos using rdf and http:
This note describes a project for describing & retrieving (digitized) photos with (RDF) metadata. It describes the RDF schemas, a data-entry program for quickly entering metadata for large numbers of photos, a way to serve the photos and the metadata over HTTP, and some suggestions for search methods to retrieve photos based on their descriptions.
The data-entry program has been implemented in Java, a specific Jigsaw frame has been done to retrieve the RDF from the image through HTTP. The RDF schema uses the Dublin Core schema as well as additional schemas for technical data.
and they’ve even gone and produced a rdfpic to embed embed an rdf description of a picture into the picture itself. will wonders ever cease?