A quote from the article titled href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30621.html">Google to fix blog
noise problem found on The Register…

“The main problem with blogs is that, as far as Google is
concerned, they masquerade as useful information when all they contain is
idle chatter,” wrote Roddy. “And through some fluke of their evil software,
they seem to get indexed really fast, so when a major political or social
event happens, Google is noised to the brim with blogs and you have to start
at result number 40 or so before you get past the blogs.”

Perhaps this problem calls for Google to dig a bit deeper into those links.
I believe for the most part blogs provide valid page rankings, but it’s the
contextual information that can be lacking at times.

In addition, I think that clustering blogs that reference the same or
similar sources like Blogdex, href="http://www.daypop.com/">Daypop, href="http://www.popdex.com/">Popdex and href="http://www.technorati.com">Technocrati, which come to think of it
is similar to what you see on Google
News.

Hmmm…

I think the Star Trek Enterprise Regeneration episode last night was one of the best in the series thus far. However, I have to agree with Jeremey Zawodny in that I was at first confused about the timeline, but I do think they pulled it together nicely.

As a few people have already mentioned on Jeremey’s blog, when the Borg contacted the Enterprise, they didn’t say, “We are Borg…”, which coincides with the storyline in ST:NG whereby they didn’t know of the Borg.

Also in the episode last night, the number of years mentioned for the sub-space message to reach the Borg home world was 200 years. That’s roughly correct, base on the fact that ST:NG met up with the Borg in 2365.

Here’s an awesome Star Trek Chronology Search Engine.

Note to self: You’re not fooling anyone about being a geek :-) Get back to work!

A quote in the href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/02/national/02STUD.html?ex=1052539200&e
n=62f647db4d1433df&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND">NY Times from Howard Ende
of DB&R about the suit:

“This suit is about the industry’s attempt to intimidate
Internet users and instill fear of lawsuits against users of the Internet,
particularly students,” said Howard Ende, a lawyer from Drinker, Biddle &
Reath who is representing Mr. Peng. “They need to find some other way to
protect their economic interests than bringing suits against bright creative
young people.”

Well said.

I got this one from Ted, which of course came from here (LOL!!)

“NEW YORK—At a press conference Monday, representatives of the Association of
American Dogs announced that the nation’s canines are dangerously
underpetted. “Every night, thousands of U.S. dogs go to bed without so much
as a scritch behind the ears,” AAD president Banjo said. “If this sort of
neglect from our masters continues, it could lead to widespread jumping on
the furniture.” Upon his owner’s arrival in the press-conference room, Banjo
abruptly ended his speech, frantically barking, leaping, and rolling over on
his back in an effort to communicate his need for a vigorous belly rub.”

Mark Eckenwiler
details his experience suing a telemarketer (link via Doc)
I love this stuff!
Good summary of Mark’s work:

“The Small Claims process in D.C. - at least what I saw of it - was so
painless as to be dangerously addictive. While the decor in the clerk’s
office leaves a lot to be desired, the staff were consistently helpful and
professional during my phone calls and in-person visits, and you can’t beat
the results if your case has merit. (While sharing news of my success, I
learned from a work colleague that she had used Small Claims previously to
recover $5,000 from a crooked used-car dealer.)”

“Total costs: Approximately $20.79 out of pocket, including *69 charge and
filing & service fees, plus 2 trips to the courthouse and the occasional
phone call (and keep in mind I could have gotten my out-of-pocket costs down
to 75 cents with a little obstinacy)”

“Return on investment: $500 cash; a heaping serving of Revenge, The Dish Best
Served Cold(tm); and one telemarketer who I am certain will never call me
again…”

Hmm, looks like Lockergnome’s Bits & Bytes started to put text Ads into its RSS feed on Friday.

This is pretty slick — create your very own mug shot with Flash Face

Audioscrobbler Browser — “[is] a visualisation tool for finding new music by exploring links between related artists”

Wow! I found relationships between artists that I never realized existed.

For example, Nina Simone and Portishead are releated via Radiohead.

Anders Jacobsen, whose blog I have just started to read on a regular bases (due to his comments here that I still need to respond too), has some rather compelling posts about KM and blogging, like for example this response to the recent Business 2.0 article on Management by Blog:

Anders Jacobsen: “I don’t think blogging in businesses will be capturing the water-cooler buzz… On the other hand blogs definitely have potential to smoothen out the intranet / knowledge database submission process. “

I agree that corporate blogging will have a greater impact in the capturing of information, but do think blogging complements the water-cooler buzz, especially with the emergence of portable wireless devices and moblogging — Albeit, blogging will never take the place of face-to-face real-time ad hoc collaboration.

This could be fun…

“If you live in the US, have a digital camera, an email address and a
passion for telling stories with pictures, we invite you to take digital
photographs from May 12-18, 2003 and submit them to the
America 24/7 web site.”