Webmaster World New Orleans Pubcon - John Battelle Keynote
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Heading to New Orleans for Webmaster
World Conference
Heading to New Orleans for Webmaster
World Conference
06/22/2005 02:06 AMI'm off to New Orleans for the Webmaster World Search conference. It
looks like the weather will be a bit warmer and more humid than I'm
used to. I'm going to be on two panels at the conference. Here are the
descriptions sent to me by the conference organizers. Lemme know if
there's anything you'd like to see me include in either one. RSS Feeds
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Congrats to John Battelle
Congrats to John Battelle
02/07/2005 01:51 AM
On completing the
draft of his book. All 90,000 words of it.
I'm proud to know
John. He's become a catalyst for alot of things - including some
killer parties on the rooftop of "The Industry Standard".
I still remember standing in line at 4:45 on a Friday - so I could
get a good piece of the roof - as the masses flowed in. It was THE
place to do deals and meet people - at the height of the boom.
Now John has his book and his conference - Web 2.0. Watch for him
to start a company this year. It was part of his predictions for
2005.
John Battelle on Searchstreams
John Battelle on Searchstreams
08/14/2004 03:06 PMGreat entry on Battelle's Searchblog about the value of recording the
journey of finding information on the Web.
That's when I remembered As We May Think, Vannevar Bush's
famous essay in The Atlantic. I had read it earlier in my research,
and was struck not by the idea of the Memex, which is well understood,
but by Bush's explication of the problem - that knowledge and learning
has become so complicated, so layered, so inefficient, that it is near
impossible for anyone to be a generalist, in the sense Aristotle was.
Bush's answer to this problem was the Memex, of course, but what I
find interesting is the mechanism by which the Memex is made potent -
the mechanism for capturing the traces of a researcher's discovery
through the Memex's corpus, and storing those traces as intelligence
so the next researcher can learn from them and build upon
them.
Link"John Battelle?s predictions for 2005"
"John Battelle?s predictions for 2005"
01/03/2005 10:35 AMJohn Battelle on Google's Froogle
Promotion
John Battelle on Google's Froogle
Promotion
12/18/2003 01:05 PMIf you're interested in the web search world and aren't reading John
Battelle's searchblog, you really should be. John's a smart guy who
knows a ton of people in this area. On the recent addition of Froogle
results to Google search results, John says: ...it is a clear
departure from the conceit - and I use that term neutrally - that
Google has always maintained, which is that the results offered by
their engine are free of human intervention -...
Online video of 60 Minutes Google seg
(with John Battelle)
Online video of 60 Minutes Google seg
(with John Battelle)
01/04/2005 11:55 PMXeni Jardin:
Here's last Sunday's 60 Minutes segment about Google, including
comment from BoingBoing's John Battelle.
Link to video (divx),
and
Link to previous BB post with details. (
thanks, matthowie!)
John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana
John Battelle visits Applied Minds, a
Willy Wonka-esque nerdvana
06/17/2004 06:12 PMJohn describes his mind-blowing tour through Applied Minds, a
Glendale, CA consultancy started by former Disney Imagineers Danny
Hillis and Bran Ferren.
After chit chatting for a few minutes, he took me to a
small room - no wider than my outstretched arms - at the far end of
which stood one of those classic red English phone booths. We stepped
inside - a bit cramped - and Danny lifted the receiver and dictated a
passphrase of some sort. Presto - the rear wall of the booth opened,
and we stepped into - nerdvana.
From a cramped phone booth into massive pure-white-lit space
two-stories high, adorned with all manner of things strange and
beautiful. Over to one side stood the Terminator-like skeleton of a
forty-foot dinosaur, its 15-foot pneumatic legs gleaming and exposed.
Nearly blending into the walls, itself painted movie-set white, was a
tricked out Hummer-like RV refitted as a communications/command center
- complete with built-in kitchen and bedroom. The space was a great
big project lab, with happy geeks combing over various assemblages of
wiring, motors, processors and plans like ants on a summer picnic.
It's Willy Wonka's chocolate factory for geeks.
LinkXML World Comes to New Orleans this
September (WebServices.org)
XML World Comes to New Orleans this
September (WebServices.org)
07/10/2002 01:42 PMWebmaster 911.com Launches Webmaster and
Small Business Search Directory
Webmaster 911.com Launches Webmaster and
Small Business Search Directory
06/24/2005 03:15 PMTechPad Agency announces the launch of the first new search directory
to launch in the small business and webmaster categories this year.
Dotster has signed on as a major distribution partner. [PRWEB Jun 23,
2005]
:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World ::
:: John Kerry for President - Remarks of
Senator John Kerry on Security and
Strength for a New World ::
05/30/2004 08:37 PMRemarks of Senator John Kerry on Security and Strength for a New World
.. openly threatening the Saudi regime .. Seattle speech .. Today's
speech ..
speeches
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“Got Game” Author & Researcher John C.
Beck to Keynote G.A.M.E.S. Synergy
Summit™ January 27th 2005 in Orlando
“Got Game” Author & Researcher John C.
Beck to Keynote G.A.M.E.S. Synergy
Summit™ January 27th 2005 in Orlando
01/07/2005 04:14 AMJohn C. Beck, President of North Star Leadership Group, Senior
Research Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg
Center for the Digital Future, and a Senior Advisor at the Monitor
Group, will keynote the international G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit™ to be
held Wednesday-Friday, January 26th-28th, 2005 in Orlando. Dr. Beck
researched and co-authored “Got Game: How the Gamer Generation is
Reshaping Business Forever” (Harvard Business School Press, Fall
2004). He will share insights about the strengths, abilities,
attitudes and learning styles of the under-34 gamer generation,
distinctly different from the baby boomers, and how enterprises across
all disciplines can adapt to encourage their best performance. An
acronym for Government, Academic, Military, Entertainment and
Simulation, the G.A.M.E.S. Synergy Summit™ brings together leaders
from each of these convergent sectors to discover new ways that
interactive game-based technologies can address a broad range of
beneficial, non-entertainment applications. [PRWEB Jan 7, 2005]
Thoughts about the Vegas Pubcon
Thoughts about the Vegas Pubcon
12/19/2004 03:08 PM"What is different about this conference from the rest is that this
conference is supported by its 'own' community. Many of the members of
this community have spend thousands of hours conversing and learning
here at WW. This community has shared interests and common goals. This
community is unique and this community should be praised, just as the
conference should be."
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here:
The Actual is the New Virtual: Alex and
Bruce Keynote SXSW
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here:
The Actual is the New Virtual: Alex and
Bruce Keynote SXSW
03/19/2005 02:18 AMOther folks engage the problems .. the actual is the new virtual ..
[Link]
worldchanging.com/archives/002353.html
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Apple's 2004 World Wide Developer
Conference Keynote by Steve Jobs
Apple's 2004 World Wide Developer
Conference Keynote by Steve Jobs
06/28/2004 03:08 PMIt's that time of year again. Apple's flare for the wryly dramatic
could be seen outside the Moscone convention center, where banners
stating "Redmond, we have a problem," and "This should keep Redmond
busy" hang next to images of Tiger preview CDs.
Three Presenters to Keynote IBC Life
Sciences' Drug Discovery Technology(R)
World Congress
Three Presenters to Keynote IBC Life
Sciences' Drug Discovery Technology(R)
World Congress
05/31/2004 01:47 PMIBC Life Sciences, producer of the 9th Annual Drug Discovery
Technology® World Congress, to be held August 8-13, 2004 in Boston,
Massachusetts, has announced the keynote sessions at this year's
event: •Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of
Health •David Baltimore, Ph.D., President, California Institute of
Technology •Mark Fishman, M.D., President, Novartis Institutes for
Biomedical Research [PRWEB May 3, 2004]
World Prays, Reflects on Pope John Paul
II (AP)
World Prays, Reflects on Pope John Paul
II (AP)
04/02/2005 09:10 AMAP - The faithful lit candles, prayed and reflected on Pope John Paul
II's legacy Saturday as he neared death. Protestants, Muslims, Jews
and even atheists praised a man whose work for peace and unity made
few religious distinctions.
Quebecor World: Fernandez to Succeed
John Dickin as COO
Quebecor World: Fernandez to Succeed
John Dickin as COO
05/12/2004 01:21 AMWhat They Think,KY-2 hours agoMONTREAL--May 11, 2004-- Quebecor (Stock
Price Web Site Related Articles Google) World is pleased to announce
the appointment of Antonio Fernandez as Chief ...
Pope John Paul Dies, World Mourns
(Reuters)
Pope John Paul Dies, World Mourns
(Reuters)
04/02/2005 08:02 PMReuters - Pope John Paul II, whose
globetrotting papacy inspired millions but left a divided
Church, died Saturday, ending years of painful physical decline
for the Polish prelate once known as God's Athlete.
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pope John
Paul II dies in Vatican
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pope John
Paul II dies in Vatican
04/02/2005 08:45 PMBBC NEWS World Europe Pope John Paul II dies in Vatican .. is dead ..
dead
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4399715.stm
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Mourners from around the world turned to
the Internet to track the waning hours
of Pope John Paul II's life an
Mourners from around the world turned to
the Internet to track the waning hours
of Pope John Paul II's life an
04/03/2005 05:24 PMBaku Today Apr 3 2005 9:19PM GMT
Battelle on TimesSelect
Battelle on TimesSelect
06/05/2005 10:46 PMAs a follow up to yesterday's post, John Battelle's got some
interesting perspective on the TimesSelect announcement as well, over
on SearchBlog....
Battelle on Google's S-1
Battelle on Google's S-1
04/30/2004 03:37 AMJohn Battelle's analysis of Google's S-1 filing -- and particularily,
the charming-but-stilted founders' letter -- is fascinating and
insightful:
The letter states, among other things, that 1. We don't need to do
this for the money; 2. We have no plans to run our business to satisfy
Wall Street's need for smooth earnings predictability; 3. We plan to
give no earnings guidance, not at least as it's understood on Wall
St.; 4. Don't ask us to do so, we'll simply decline the request; 5.
We'll do odd things that you won' t understand; 6. We will make big
bets on things that may not work out; 7. We run the company as a
triumvirate, so there will not be clear leadership from one person
like most other companies; 8. We bridge the media and tech industries
(interesting), which are in flux, so we've chosen a two-class stock
structure similar to the NYT, WashPost, and NYT that helps us avoid
being taken over by those forces; 9. We plan using an auction model,
as it feels fairer and we understand auctions from AdWords; 10. Don't
invest in us if this scares you at all, or the price feels too high;
11. Don't even think about asking us to cut expenses with regard to
our employees; 12. We believe in the idea of Don't Be Evil; 13. It's
evil to pay for placement or inclusion (a swipe at Yahoo); 14. We hope
to bridge the digital divide through Gmail type free services and a
foundation with at least 1% of profits and equity to help make the
world a better place; 17. Betting on Google is a bet on Sergey and
Larry (this was said multiple times, making me wonder if there wasn't
some odd future blame being assigned here by the VCs or bankers); 18.
This letter is our way of answering the questions we can't answer in
the coming months due to the IPO quiet period.
LinkBattelle and The First Rule of AdSense
Battelle and The First Rule of AdSense
09/07/2004 09:55 PMJohn Battelle is blogging his experience with advertising on his
weblog. He's started with Google AdSense (which I also use) but seems
to have violated the First Rule of Google AdSense rather quickly.
There's some amusing (or sad, depending on your point of view) stuff
in his post as well as some good comments from Cory Doctorow in the
comments, like: anything the scale of Google is way, way too big to be
involved in editorial decision I think John's...
60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood
60 Minutes: Google, Battelle, and
Bollywood
01/02/2005 11:06 PMXeni Jardin:
Well -- not all together in the same story, though that might have
been even more interesting.
The CBS television program 60
Minutes featured a lengthy segment on Google this evening which included
astute comment from John
Battelle, who moonlights as BoingBoing's Reuben
Kincaid when he's not writing books,
building empires, and tracking search tech trends here. Snip from the transcript:
"If anybody got a Porsche or a Ferrari right now at Google, they’d
probably be drummed out of the company," observes John Battelle, an
author and entrepreneur who has been following Silicon Valley
companies for 20 years. He says, "Google has a brand image to
maintain. And their image is they’re all about innovation and
they’re all about the Internet, and they’re all about trust.
They’re not about selling out. They’re not about getting rich
quick. So you’ve got a culture like that; I think if anyone were to
buy, you know, a new Mercedes convertible and drive around with the
stereo blaring, and miss work a couple days because they’re rich
now, that would not be acceptable behavior at Google.
"But trust me," he adds. "There’s a Mercedes convertible in every
one of their heads. There is. And it will…come out. Over time, it
will come out."
The show also included a killer piece on Indian film star and
hyperbolic superbeauty
Aishwarya Rai. Snip:
The reason Bollywood films have such universal appeal is because
they’re squeaky-clean. There are no sex scenes, not even kissing.
Every time you think someone’s going to do it, they'll burst into
song instead. "I'd assume that's really a reflection of our society,"
Rai says, when asked to explain the films' modesty. "Of course people
kiss and of course people have a very healthy love life. This is the
land of the Kama Sutra. But nevertheless, in our society you don't
really see people around the street corner kissing or being extremely,
overtly, physically demonstrative publicly. They do it privately but
not publicly."
Link to Google piece with BoingBoing's own John Battelle,
and Link to seg on Aishwarya Rai.
Steven R. Weisman's April 13 New York
Times report on how the leader of the
free world is expected to name John
Negroponte as the ambassador to Iraq
once "sovereignty" is turned over
Steven R. Weisman's April 13 New York
Times report on how the leader of the
free world is expected to name John
Negroponte as the ambassador to Iraq
once "sovereignty" is turned over
04/16/2004 07:45 AMsays
nytimes.com/2004/04/14/politics/14ENVO.html
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New Orleans was so much fun...
New Orleans was so much fun...
08/10/2004 05:42 PM...that I still haven't recovered :)
The trip was actually a birthday gift for my Dad from his three
sons, and we all had a great time. We stayed at the R
oyal Sonesta Hotel, which is smack dab in the middle of Bourbon
Street. My room had a balcony overlooking the street, which was a
great place to hang out and watch the freaks go by (until we joined
them, of course). Apparently the Mardi Gras atmosphere stays alive
all year on Bourbon Street - the number of sober people rapidly
declined as the night wore on, and the number of bead-tossers rapidly
increased. I was honored to have a young lady toss me some beads and
ask me to strip in return, but given that I'm a married man I wasn't
about to shed any clothes (now, if she would've tossed me an iPod
instead of beads...).
Apart from the wild night life, other highlights included a trip to
the Voodoo
Museum, a tour of the Honey Island Swamp
(complete with a 14ft alligator that was coaxed out of hiding with a
few marshmallows), and a Louis Armstrong parade that was part of the
Satch
mo SummerFest. The parade may have been my favorite - watching
the entire street dance to the sound of the marching New Orleans jazz
band was quite a treat. Rock-n-roll may have its share of party
music, but it's nothing compared to live New Orleans jazz.
Of course, the downside of having a balcony overlooking Bourbon
Street is that the noise from the crowd keeps going until daybreak, so
I've hardly slept since Friday. Recuperating from three late nights
in a row is making me feel my age!
Off to New Orleans
Off to New Orleans
08/06/2004 11:12 AMI'm off to New Orleans for a long weekend to celebrate my Dad's
birthday. Be back Tuesday!
:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::
:: John Kerry for President - John
Kerry's Official Naval Records ::
04/22/2004 04:00 PMKerry camp posts military records online. Bush camp checking his
parents attic for his .. docs of his Vietnam service record .. this
gentleman's record .. 120 pages of records ..
his
johnkerry.com/about/military_records.html
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Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
Radio Interview with John Brady Kiesling
and John H. Brown
03/15/2003 06:05 AMKALW in San Francisco did an
hour
long radio interview with John Brady Kiesling and John H. Brown,
the American Foreign Service officers who resigned over Bush's Iraq
policy. Both are impressive speakers, and Kiesling is as articulate
and as convincing as his letter:
If we can't convince
our historical allies that this is a good thing to do, there is no way
we are going to be able to convince the Arab world.
People have to take a stand. War may be inevitable, but we need to do
what we can to keep our consciences clean.
There is a policy to make America safer, but this is not it.
"America is still the safest country in the world. The
administration is trying to scare people with this talk about terror
and duct tape. We should use our safety and prosperity and our
strength to do good and we can do good."
Brown said his resignation was "in part a result of Andrew Card's
comment, 'Never launch a product in August.' War is not a
product."
I learned a lot from listening to it. Recommended. Requires
Real Player.
WebMaster FTP v1.0
WebMaster FTP v1.0
01/22/2004 02:58 AM
FTP program designed for webmasters whose sites are on UNIX-like
hosts. Main task of Webmaster FTP is to reduce errors and time
required to perform your web site management tasks via FTP. Having
everything that you expect from an FTP tool for webmasters, the
program also has some unique features like automatic setting of the
correct file permissions, Explorer-style left folder tree, support for
UNIX and Apache file types, resume transfers, etc. [Shareware $40.00
1.18 MB]
Why be a Webmaster?
Why be a Webmaster?
06/26/2002 01:02 PM
Is it the money or the chicks?
New Orleans WPA Projects
New Orleans WPA Projects
05/17/2004 06:10 PM
The New
Orleans WPA Photograph Collection exclusively shows photographs of
depression-era projects from Louisiana, so there's a whole set of WPA
projects -- from the world-famous Golden
Gate Bridge, to venerated Doubleday
Field, to the beautiful but obscure Border
Station in Naco, AZ -- that you just won't see here.
Nevertheless, if you take the time to explore this site you
will find some truly wonderful photographs<
/a>. Some are more technical surveyor-style photographs, but others
are akin to the realist style being carved out at the time by folks
like Walker Evans<
/a>, who actually did do some photography for the Farm Security
Administration (another New Deal-era project).
Toilets of New Orleans
Toilets of New Orleans
04/02/2005 06:27 PM
Toilets of
New Orleans. An anthropological journey for the lost and weary.
The Plight of the SME Webmaster
The Plight of the SME Webmaster
05/23/2002 10:39 PM
What Kind of Webmaster are You
What Kind of Webmaster are You
08/20/2002 12:14 PM
"...what impact the approach a webmaster brings to this craft might
have on the success of their sites"
Assistant Webmaster
Assistant Webmaster
01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Association of Commonwealth Universities - United Kingdom, London
(2004-01-08)
Interview With The Webmaster
Interview With The Webmaster
11/08/2002 12:11 PM
Hurricane Risk for New Orleans
Hurricane Risk for New Orleans
09/14/2004 10:50 AM
Hurricane Risk for New Orleans: "if that
Category Five Hurricane comes to New Orleans, 50,000 people could lose
their lives. Now that is significantly larger than any estimates that
we would have of individuals who might lose their lives from a
terrorist attack. When you start to do that kind of calculus - and
it's horrendous that you have to do that kind of calculus - it appears
to those of us in emergency management, that the risk is much more
real and much more significant, when you talk about hurricanes. I
don't know that anybody, though, psychologically, has come to grip
with that: that the French Quarter of New Orleans could be gone."
(Nb. this excerpt from a fascinating 2002 American RadioWorks
documentary does not refer specifically to Ivan.)
New Orleans Stations Pass on Gas Ads
(AP)
New Orleans Stations Pass on Gas Ads
(AP)
06/22/2005 02:18 AM
AP - Two New Orleans radio stations apparently don't think there's
anything funny about passing Gas. Marketing folks for Shoney's thought
they had come up with a humorous radio spot promoting the restaurant's
breakfast buffet.
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