Saturday, September 28, 2002

The thick blue line

Where would blogs be without Google? Not nowhere, that's for sure; but a lot less somewhere than they are right now. Check these datapoints:

blog, 2,000,000 results (JOHO the Blog is #5!)weblog, 1,740,000 (Yours truly is also #5)weblogs, 754,000

Now ask the same about news, once it becomes part of the Googlesphere, along with blogs, images, catalogs and Usenet?

That's the subject of a discussion thread started by Phil Wolff.

Neither here nor there

A week from today, we'll be living in a new house, with a new Net connection, new phone numbers and the rest of it. Yesterday was the last day the old place looked like nobody was moving out.http://catalog.google.com/

Today mess-making begins in earnest. The kid and I will be filling boxes and I expect to make about 10 trips in the old Subaru wagon. Not easy to blog under the circumstances, but who knows?

Fuckin' Fast

Pud Kaplan has a last laugh in the Fast vs. Fucked vs. Fast Company logo case.

I was wondering where that shit was

Associated Press (via Raleigh News & Observer): China returns U.S. electronic trash.