Modern Drunkard Magazine Online
"I busted out of rehab …"
After this week, I think I want to run Modern Drunkard’s website. Any place with Absinthe advertisers and columns titled: "You’re a Drunk" and "How to Ace Your Next Intervention" has to be a party.
Matt McAlister :: Search: Big indexes versus microformats
Matt, while waiting for Battelle’s The Search to arrive, posits that microformats will trump massive indices of content in the long run. Example — I use the GMap Pedometer to build bicycle rides and share them on this blog with other riders looking for routes in my region. Jon Udell blogs about using the same tool to build ride routes in New Hampshire. He tags his routes with del.ici.ous. I do the same, following his tag conventions. Now we’re laying the foundation for a sub-niche of search that enables someone seeking "Cape Cod Bike Rides" or "White Mountain Bike Rides" to find our GMap Pedometer constructs.
Is live. And "beta" (imagine that).
Advanced search doesn’t show much functionality specific to blogistan. No indication of permalinks and trackbacks. Still, it will conquer all ….
The Amazon.Com Customer Service Page
Customer service hacks? Pissed off at Amazon, want to vent? Good luck finding their customer service phone number. Unless you visit this page.
The Anatomy of a Sale–Ours, Part 1
Good fly-on-the-wall tale by Bo Burlingham about the sale of Fast Company and Inc.
PaidContent.org: September 12, 2005 Archives
Interview with Vivek Shah on the merger of Fortune.com, Business2.com, FSB.com with CNNMoney.
"On opening the walled garden: Fortune.com was the first Time Inc. site to go behind the wall, requiring a subscription for access to most content. Now it will be one of the first Time Inc. sites to open up. Breaking news and current articles will be accessible — as has been the case on CNNMoney.com — but archives and some features will be behind the wall. "As they roam around and they find something (behind the wall), that’s when you can say they now need to become a paying customer. …It’s all about serving your audience in a respectful, smart way."
Genuine VC: Seven Founding Sins
Fred Wilson points out this great post by David Beisel. Like Fred, I’ve added Beisel to the blogroll.
The sins are:
I pre-ordered John Battelle’s new book, The Search, a few months ago, and returned home on Friday to find that Amazon had delivered it. I took it with me to the beach on Saturday and got the first two chapters in before some ankle-biters took up camp behind my beach chair and tried to bury themselves in a storm of flying sand.
First impressions — good book on the way to becoming a great book as I read further. I hope to knock it off this week and will post a full review when I’m finished. The first chapter tries to put a big too heavy an import on the role of search as the ne plus ultra of all technology. While I certainly won’t contest that search is central to navigating information, I think the next book should be titled The Understanding, following through with the ever brilliant insight by Danny Hillis that it isn’t the finding and locating of information that is important, but ultimately leading the seeker to some understanding that is the driving goal.
This has been a good year for tech writing with this and Markoff’s What the Dormouse Said making for some great reading these past six months.
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