mostly research stuff
i heard recently that joyce parks, an employee at a company i loathe (friendster), was fired for blogging…apparently these were the two different blog entries which she believes prompted the shitcanning (entry 1 and entry 2)…also an interesting bit about her role in open source at the many to many blog…
how might we read into [...]
de mortiis, aut bene aut nihil (”of the dead, speak well or not at all“)…so nytimes.com is shutting down (at long last) the abuzz.com community forums site on 9/2…and not soon enough!…at first i was all choked up, since i followed abuzz’ birth years ago - when they competed with several other shitty mega-sites which [...]
after all of the foofaraw about this interview with playboy (from the ‘family search engine’ guys), i figured i’d take the time to crap on it all in a bit more detail and repost the entire interview here on passingnotes…the sec site is where you will find the august 13th amendment number 7 to the [...]
“I got a girl and she wants a lot of love….That’s the kind of trouble I need plenty of….We’ll kiss all night, I’ll squeeze her tight…But we’re kissin’ cousins ‘n that’ll make it all right” - Elvis Presley
…ever wonder precisely where feeds into aggregate-results-driven search engines come from?… and try to separate the varlets from [...]
i could hardly restrain myself this month when i learned that elGoog founders barry and sergio were in playboy…â€rather fitting,†i commented aloud to myself as i often do when reviewing worthless data, since most people use elGoog to search for porn and since these two geeks spent most of junior high (and college) locked in the bathroom with playboy, running water, screaming, “i’ll be downstairs in a minute mom! “….so yeah, the sec pettifoggers took this opportunity to stir things up, which gave
this blog is mostly safe for work, though i sometimes throw around a 'fuck' or two. you'll find a bunch of my articles from CI Magazine, SCIP online, other research pieces and some other crap. enjoy. there's lost of content here related to getting information about, around, from and through people and organizations...