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Why Subscribe to Re-Find?

Well, Re-Find (sign up at left) is the weekly summary of what was posted on Searchblog, which may or may not be interesting to you. But it's also a way for me to know who the hell you guys are. I am stunned, honored, and scared shitless to report that…

Well, Re-Find (sign up at left) is the weekly summary of what was posted on Searchblog, which may or may not be interesting to you. But it’s also a way for me to know who the hell you guys are. I am stunned, honored, and scared shitless to report that Searchblog has something like 35,000 readers now, and it’s nice to grok a cross section of that readership, if only through the entrails of email addresses. Plus, those who proactively vote by signing up will more likely than not get an invitation to participate in whatever it is I might do next – read chapters of the book before publication, beta test a new site, or come to a conference I’m thinking about. So sign up, if any of that sounds interesting to you. You can always unsubscribe if I get too self serving, pedantic, or hopelessly boring.

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China Internet Conference At Berkeley

The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, where I have taught for the past few years, is sponsoring a conference April 30 and May 1 on "China’s Digital Future: Advancing The Understanding of China’s Information Revolution." More information on the conference is in the extended entry below, but I…

The Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, where I have taught for the past few years, is sponsoring a conference April 30 and May 1 on “China’s Digital Future: Advancing The Understanding of China’s Information Revolution.” More information on the conference is in the extended entry below, but I wanted to let this audience know about it, as I helped the school create China Digital News, a blog covering these issues, and will be moderating a panel. Admission is free.

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F*cking Spam

Spam. F*cking spam. Last night I got hit with about 150 or so comment spams from "http://www.emmss.com", some Chinese site I can't even read. I'm on it, but I don't have the time to hand-delete all these spams, and my mail is down to boot, meaning my Blacklist ain't functional….

spamSpam. F*cking spam. Last night I got hit with about 150 or so comment spams from “http://www.emmss.com”, some Chinese site I can’t even read. I’m on it, but I don’t have the time to hand-delete all these spams, and my mail is down to boot, meaning my Blacklist ain’t functional. Even if it were, that’s hundreds of clicks. Anyone know a way to batch delete comments in the MT backend?

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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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Re-Find

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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Newsletter reminder

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….

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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