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The Web As Platform

I've decided to add a new category to Searchblog, and with it a new facet of coverage, which I'm calling The Web As Platform. For reasons I hope to make clear over time, I think search represents critical binding for this particular erector set. This meme has been around for…

I’ve decided to add a new category to Searchblog, and with it a new facet of coverage, which I’m calling The Web As Platform. For reasons I hope to make clear over time, I think search represents critical binding for this particular erector set. This meme has been around for a very long time, in various flavors, but any number of circumstances are gathering which have given it significant traction and I find it important and fascinating. I’ve been doing a fair amount of work in this space, work I’ll be announcing later in the year, but for now, I hope you agree this is a space worth watching.

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A reminder to sign up for Re-Find, the email summary of the week that was on Searchblog, in the upper left hand corner. If you're into that kind of thing, that is….

A reminder to sign up for Re-Find, the email summary of the week that was on Searchblog, in the upper left hand corner. If you’re into that kind of thing, that is.

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Hey Folks – Reminder, if you want to get a week's worth of Searchblog in your in box each Friday, toss your email into the box at left. Will send the next one – version 1.04, shortly….

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Update

Sorry for the light posting day. I spent all day in meetings, and then an hour on an NPR program. There is lots to get caught up on, in time, I will. I met this morning with Rajeev Motwani, one of the professors who mentored Larry and Sergey during their…

Sorry for the light posting day. I spent all day in meetings, and then an hour on an NPR program. There is lots to get caught up on, in time, I will. I met this morning with Rajeev Motwani, one of the professors who mentored Larry and Sergey during their Stanford days. I then had lunch with a source who wishes to remain anonymous, but who shed a lot of light on the ongoing search and ecommerce wars. Then on to meet Rich Skrenta, whose latest creation is Topix. More on that in an upcoming post. Then the NPR show, “On Point,” which was, as one might expect, obsessed with Google obsession.

Lots of news over the past 24 hours, expect posts on that as well. And if you want the weekly newsletter, a reminder to sign up in the box at left.

Have a great weekend.

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Lite Day Friday: Off to LA

I'm off to Pasadena Friday to spend the morning with Gary Flake, who runs Yahoo Labs (he was Chief Scientist at Overture prior to the acquisition). Posting will be light, I suspect, till the weekend. Sunday I head to PC Forum, where I'm meeting a whole lotta folks. If any…

I’m off to Pasadena Friday to spend the morning with Gary Flake, who runs Yahoo Labs (he was Chief Scientist at Overture prior to the acquisition).

Posting will be light, I suspect, till the weekend. Sunday I head to PC Forum, where I’m meeting a whole lotta folks. If any readers are coming out that way, ping me at jbat at battellemedia.com.

Finally, a reminder. If you want to receive the next copy of “Re-Find”, the treble entendre-entitled newsletter that summarizes a whole week of Searchblog in one simple email, put your email in the box to the left of this post. Thanks to all who got last week’s first issue and bothered to send me “Hey I Like It” emails. Much appreciated.

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Introducing Re-Find

You'll see a few changes on the site (they always happen on the weekends)…I've moved some stuff around on the left, added a list of search engines, and I've introduced a newsletter subscription box. If you enter your email at left, you'll receive "Re-Find," a weekly summary of posts. (I'm…

You’ll see a few changes on the site (they always happen on the weekends)…I’ve moved some stuff around on the left, added a list of search engines, and I’ve introduced a newsletter subscription box. If you enter your email at left, you’ll receive “Re-Find,” a weekly summary of posts. (I’m shooting to do it Friday, but it might come over the weekend, as it did this weekend.) Yep, I’m a sucker for entendres. Thanks for reading….

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Posting Will Slow, Disneyland Ho…

I'm off to take my two older kids to Disneyland (it's their winter break week). So posting will slow. Lemme know if there's anything we can't miss down in Ahaheim……

I’m off to take my two older kids to Disneyland (it’s their winter break week). So posting will slow. Lemme know if there’s anything we can’t miss down in Ahaheim…

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My Site Was Funky, Now It’s Square

A number of readers have emailed me recently, concerned that my site had a/turned into the blog of a Chinese human rights activist, b/was now run by a fan of Charlie Parker who also is one of the best web hosting guys in the universe (my pal Scot at birdhouse.org),…

A number of readers have emailed me recently, concerned that my site had a/turned into the blog of a Chinese human rights activist, b/was now run by a fan of Charlie Parker who also is one of the best web hosting guys in the universe (my pal Scot at birdhouse.org), or c/is going text-only, as the images seemed to have disappeared. Never fear. All is back to normal, for the most part. Just had a rough changeover to new rackspace over the past day or so. Thanks for caring enough to send me email about it. Nice to know someone is noticing….

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A Software Wish

As long as I'm skipping down memory lane and all, I wanted to leave one tech/site related request – late though it is – for Santa this Christmas Eve. Or maybe I should say, for Ben and Mena over at Six Apart (the folks who brought us the software that…

As long as I’m skipping down memory lane and all, I wanted to leave one tech/site related request – late though it is – for Santa this Christmas Eve. Or maybe I should say, for Ben and Mena over at Six Apart (the folks who brought us the software that makes this site, and many others, possible). I wish for Quark Xpress for the Web. I know this has been something of a pipe dream for many (and I’m not really tight into the discussion on this topic, so perhaps it’s on its way), but now that I’ve mastered a few of the basics of Moveable Type, I really wish I could play with the software the way I did when desktop publishing was young, back in the late 1980s, when Quark and others made history. One of my first gigs was as a paginator for MacWeek, which claimed to be the first desktop-published four-color national weekly magazine in history. It was just really really cool to be a beta tester of software (Quark version .9) that you knew was going to change publishing forever. As great as MT is, it’s still too hard to tweak the sites, to make them look better and perform better from a reader’s point of view. I know making this stuff is extra hard. But I’d sure love to beta test the GUI version of MT, were it ever to come down the chimney….

And Happy Holidays to you all. Thanks for reading these past couple of months, and giving me so much to chew on. I look forward to 2004.

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