31 years old. it’s feeling pretty good – me and the thirties are going to get along famously. i might feel differently a decade or two from now, but i’m o.k. with getting older. you can’t do much about it and being young isn’t all that it’s cracked-up to be anyway.

it’s a pagerank post! jeremy zawodny declares that pagerank is dead, which has tangentially related to some of the things i was rambling on about earlier in the week:

“With all the recent discussion of Google removing (or not removing) blogs from their index, people have been barking up the wrong tree. Google doesn’t have to remove them. The simply need to identify them in a reliable way. Then they can be penalized (given a lower PageRank). And, believe it or not, that’s not terribly difficult to do if you have a good web map and a few blogs to use as starting points.

It has already happened.”

interesting that they seem to be favoring the “mass penalization” route, instead of the “differential display” option.

i was ready to suspend belief. i was ready to not think. and despite all that, the matrix reloaded sucked. bad. i’m sorry to have dragged kris to it. the k5 review was too kind:

“Furthermore, the Wachowskis commit Lucas’s most egregious sin: the sin of excess.”

adam kalsey writes a web-based front end to an existing buttom maker so you can easily make buttons that are all the rage these days, quickly finds himself in at the heart of memestorm and not quiet sure what to make of it. maybe there’s a verb for this type of thing. “warchalked” perhaps?

tim bray has challenged the rdf community to come up with an rdf-based app that’s begs to be used and is viral. while i haven’t seen a winning example, i think that there are a few promising potential entrants from the foaf world. examples include spring desktop’s innovative foaf support. it’ll be intersting so see what typepad does beyond simly making it easy to produce a foaf file.

how does one imbue even more geek points on the world as a blog, which is a realtimeish geographic tracking of blog updates using weblogs.com, geocoding and rss? start mapping updates onto a dymaxion map. bucky would be proud.

it appears that google officially considers the blogclog a non-issue, ostensibly aggreeing with phil’s analysis, which goes something along the lines of, if you get crappy results then there aren’t any good results. i still think there are some interesting points about how searching through blogs represents a different “mode” of finding information, in the same way that i thing that searching usenet posting represents a different “mode”. and this difference is heightened precisely when it’s needed the most – when good results are ill-defined. hi. ho. at least according according to google, i’m full of crap and it’s a non-issue. on to more interesting things…