Site Promotion: How Does Google Use Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI)?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) helps Google and others maintain relevancy by distinguishing in search results between polynyms, words with multiple meanings, and provide relevant results in cases of synonyms. Date: Jan 19, 2005, 13:45 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: Exactly What Is Spam?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Spam is usually defined as bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail. Unsolicited commercial e-mails (UCE) are prohibited by law in Australia and Europe. In the US, however, UCE is allowable if it is not deceptive and the recipient can opt out. Discussess opt-in, opt-out, and double-opt-in terminology. Date: Jan 12, 2005, 14:31 PST"

Site Promotion: Are Google Rankings Influenced by Click-Throughs?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Google and other search engines certainly monitor click through ratios from their search results pages. However, this probably only effects ranking when searchers constantly use their back key to return from a particular result, showing lack of relevancy. Date: Jan 5, 2005, 13:40 PST"

Site Promotion: How Do Subdirectories Affect Search Engine Rankings?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"If you put your articles several levels down in subdirectories, you may risk (1) search engine spiders not seeing your content and (2) a slightly lower ranking for your webpages. Date: Dec 15, 2004, 13:34 PST"

Miscellaneous: Buying or Selling an Online Business
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Discusses what to look for when you buy an Internet business -- reasons for the sale, value of site software, traffic, income, competitors, and potential for revenue in the future. Date: Dec 15, 2004, 10:53 PST"


Ad Pros Say The Kid's Alright
From: www.webpronews.com

"Over at imediaconnection, Scott Witt, Group Director, Digital, SMV Group, and Adam Boozer, Sr.Creative Director, IQTV, analyze iPod lover and teacher George Masters self-created online campaign for Apple iPod."

eBay Raising Fees
From: www.webpronews.com

"eBay announced that it is going to be raising fees by as much as 60% in some areas."

Yahoo, MSN Close Gap, Google Still Tops
From: www.webpronews.com

"A survey has revealed Google is still the number one search engine; but MSN and Yahoo are closing the gap."

Google In the Clear Over Playboy Spread
From: www.webpronews.com

"No penalties for Google's interview with Playboy... Now, if Page and Brin had done a center spread, I'd be calling for billions in damages."

Google Taking Too Long With Beta Testing
From: www.webpronews.com

"ZDNet looks at the dark side of Google. The dark side? Yep, they're bad boys for not getting the products out of beta."


Does TiVo King Have Clothes?
From: www.wired.com

"Exec to step down in time of fast ups and hard downs. Also: Google unveils mini search engine for small companies to scour intranet and web.... Sony's Creation Box might be the Photoshop of video.... and more."

Russia's Boost to Tech Sector
From: www.wired.com

"Calling the nurturing of the technology industry a high priority, President Vladimir Putin orders the government to draft legislation to create special zones where tech companies will receive tax breaks for setting up shop in Russia."

Wanted: Organic Apple
From: www.wired.com

"Environmentalists crash Macworld and chide Apple for its lackluster recycling efforts. Also: Notes on how to stop cyberbullying are here & hellip;. Motorola loses its number two, who wanted to be number one & hellip;. and more."

IBM Heads to Open Source
From: www.wired.com

"Big Blue will donate 500 patents for free use. Also: Yahoo joins Google with hard drive search engine.... Inconclusive report on cell phones: Are they a health hazard?... and more."

Verizon's E-Mail Embargo Enrages
From: www.wired.com

"Who's blocking all the great e-mail from Europe? Verizon is, and its customers aren't very happy about it. The company says it's only trying to block spam, but the filters aren't working very well. By John Gartner."


Movable Type Accessibility In Question
From: webword.com

" Business Logs -- "Joe Clark, one of the loudest voices in the world in regards to accessibility, has a boombastic writeup on his weblog that discusses how Movable Type is an application that generates content, and should therefore adhere to the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines or ATAG."

Read the posting and comments..."

iPod Shuffle = Field of Push
From: webword.com

" I have a Jens of Sweden MP-300 MP3 player with an FM receiver, FM transmission, visual display, voice recording, 256MB memory, simple USB interface, drag and drop capability, bass boost, equalizer, long battery life, playback speed up and slow down, and more. I bought it nearly a year ago for $200. The MP-400 is now available with 1 GB of storage, although you can't buy it in the USA right now.

How is it better than my player? How is the iPod Shuffle superior to other players? I honestly want to know. Fire away!

Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle in 3 easy steps

Shuffle This

p.s. "Field of Push" in an anagram of iPod Shuffle. Here are a two more I like: "Solid puff, eh?" and "Flesh Dip UFO"."

uiGarden Launches
From: webword.com

" "After eight months hard work, with firm and persistent conviction, heartfelt passion and generous support from friends, the first issue of uiGarden, - the bilingual webzine dedicated for professionals in the UI and usability related field is finally published."

Visit the site...

Feel free to also read Usability Around the Globe: Resources. It was published in 2000 but most of the resources are still alive and well."

Designing the relationship between content and locales
From: webword.com

" Peter Van Dijck -- "When you start designing the relationship between content and locales, you ll often find that the structure you come up with is different for different types of content. Technical support information may be translatable directly in a one-on-one translation. You might not sell exactly the same products or services in all markets, so marketing content might require a partial original content translation. And so on."

Read the posting..."

How the Mac was born, and other tales
From: webword.com

" ZDNet -- "Blogging is changing the way people communicate. Are you a blogger? No. I think people overrate blogging. I think the overall phenomenon to me is Web pages. Blogs are just Web pages, a certain stylized form of Web page. Much of the blogging is driven by egotism."

Read the interview...

p.s. Read two interviews (Matthew Oliphant and John S. Rhodes) on blogging."