Saturday, August 26, 2006

Monocultural blues

Ian Kallen: the Google Web Spam Ecosystem. ...black-hat SEO's have definitely cranked up the game over the last year or so and are putting the whole market at risk again...

Answers

One virtue I've seen in the programming world is a preference not to re-invent code that's already doing a fine job. Such is also the case with explaining one's self in the everyday world, which includes here.

Yesterday Dave Rogers issued a number of questions for me to answer, most or all of which are addressed, I believe, by Making a New World, which is my chapter in Open Sources 2. That last link goes to an early draft of that piece. Also by Use and Usefulness, in Linux Journal.

Hope they help.

[Later...] Dave responds.

Perspective

From Content is Serf, in IT Garage: Andrew Odlyzko's Content is Not King is Required Reading for anybody (and that's most of us) who think the Net's main practical and economic virtues involve content distribution.

I add a few words to Andrew's huge and well-sourced piece. But the important stuff is his. Go read it.

[Later...] I just noticed that it's from 2001. That makes it all the more relevant and interesting. To me, at least.