Category Archives: Commentary

Dear New York Times: Partial-text feeds suck.

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Keith

So, one of my very favorite daily reads is moving to its new home at the New York Times. This should be a Good Thing. Unfortunately, responses to the announcement consist almost entirely of loyal readers congratulating the authors on … Continue reading →

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Take that, Flickr.

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Keith

In protest of Flickr‘s on-going, poorly communicated and arbitrarily-enforced censorship campaign: I just removed the photo that I had on Flickr. That’ll show ‘em. More worthwhile commentary on the problem: Update on the Censorship Problem on Flickr Non-nonsense about Flickr, … Continue reading →

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Google Street View predictions

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Keith

1) Spotting one of the “Google vans” (Is this it?) becomes the new Where’s Waldo. 2) Locating Street View imagery of one’s self intentionally doing stupid things for the camera on said van becomes a new measure of geek stardom. … Continue reading →

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How bad can Google Blog Search possibly be?

Posted on May 12, 2007 by Keith

Google has a wildly popular feed reader. And they presumably know a thing or two about ranking algorithms. Why not rank blog search results based on subscribership? Or, since they’ve surely already thought of something as groundbreaking as my previous … Continue reading →

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