Haven't Fallen Off Face of Blogosphere

No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Blogosphere -- Just mega-busy at work and trying to get in a couple of home projects as well.

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Yahoo! beats Google -- Who woulda thought it? Excerpt: Yahoo is emerging as the leading portal, fighting Google and losing for the search business, while Google is the leader in search, fighting Yahoo and losing dominance as a portal, Larry Freed, president and CEO of ForeSee Results, which sponsors the ACSI report, said in a statement.

A guy named Virgil Griffith has developed a program that tracks what domain names have made "anonymous" Wikipedia edits.

Due to ridiculously tragic music-clearance process, much of the great rock music that was originally part of WKRP has been surgically removed.

India, 60 years after independence.

If You Haven't Figured It Out Yet...

Somebody (a Verizon user in the U.S.) did a Yahoo search yesterday for the following phrase, and my blog came up as the #1 hit:

answer to this riddle what is an eleven lettered word that is spelled incorrectly?

Hint: i-n-c-o-r-r-e-c-t-l-y

Things From Around the Web

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• Here are the freshly posted 2007 Weblog Awards.
• School Library Journal article on MLK and Google.
• Wired Magazine: How Yahoo Blew It. Excerpt: [Terry] Semel has been Yahoo's CEO for nearly six years, yet he has never acquired an intuitive sense of the company's plumbing. He understands how to do deals and partnerships, he gets how to market Yahoo's brand, and he knows how to tap Yahoo's giant user base to sell brand advertising to corporations. But the challenges of integrating two giant computer systems or redesigning a database or redoing a user interface? Many who have met with him at Yahoo say he still doesn't know the right questions to ask about technology. "Terry could never pound the table and say, 'This is where we need to go, guys,'" one former Yahoo executive says. "On those subjects, he always had to have someone next to him explaining why it was important." One could have made a convincing argument two years ago that such deep technical knowledge didn't matter much. But now we have empirical evidence: At Yahoo, the marketers rule, and at Google the engineers rule. And for that, Yahoo is finally paying the price.
• Currently watching the commentary on the DVD This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Awesome documentary! Further comments to follow. (One comment to TFINYR producer Eddie Schmidt right now though: At 1:11:30 or so, you have "Millennium" spelled wrong. Remember -- Two "m"s, two "l"s, two "n"s.)
• Via Google Video, a BBC documentary on the history and development of Tetris.