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Tuesday, December 24, 2002

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Open Sesame.
Glenn Otis Brown (Executive Director, Creative Commons), to the Boston Globe: "If you're clever about how you leverage your rights, you can cash in on openness.'' More, in the article.

Back on July 10 of this year, Glenn gave an informative talk at my firm about Creative Commons. I blogged it, if you are interested in taking a look.

[Update:] On going back and re-reading my notes of Glenn's talk, I see I mentioned the fact that various of my colleagues at the firm volunteered to provide feedback on the licenses during the review process, and that I thought I would do that myself. As it turned out, I got busy with other matters and did not wind up participating in the comment process beyond some emailed questions which are mentioned in and linked from my notes of Glenn's presentation. [Bag and Baggage]

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Boxes & Arrows: What Is A Controlled Vocabulary? The most effective communication occurs when all parties involved agree on the meaning of the terms being used.
Consequently, finding the right words to communicate the message of your website can be one of the most difficult parts of developing it. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Blogs go mainstream.
Washington salutes its new Blog Overlords When Trent Lott finally fell from (g)race last friday, the ensuing MeFi thread discussed how Lott's statements were at first a sleeper in the mainstream media but that the blogosphere forced the story onto the front pages. However, this theory was met with some scepticism However, the theory of blog ascendancy has legs. In fact, the story is all over the place this morning. With this level of discussion, right or wrong, Blogs just arguably went mainstream. (It might also be the end of our golden era of blogging.) There are greater and lesser blogs. Its hard to tell which blog deserves the credit for toppling Lott. How will they determine the alpha blog? The winner could be the next "Drudge". [MetaFilter]

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Top 10 Google Myths Revealed.
SitePoint: "Does Google use meta tags? Does it penalize sites that use popups? And what's the real meaning of PageRank?...

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Optical Illusions.
Reverend Jim: I don't generally announce this sort of thing, but these Optical Illusions are really good. Number 6 is my personal favorite. It literally knocked me out of my chair. (Flash Required) [Sam Ruby]

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Spam Under the Tree.
Brightmail says the holidays brought an onslaught of unwanted commercial e-mail. [internetnews.com: Internet Advertising Report]

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Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2
Useit.Com: Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002. Every year brings new mistakes. In 2002, several of the worst mistakes in Web design related to poor email integration. The number one mistake, however, was lack of pricing information, followed by overly literal search engines. [Tomalak's Realm]

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Yahoo Buying Inktomi For $235 Million.
Information Week - Yahoo Inc. said Monday it will buy online search-engine pioneer Inktomi Corp. for $1.65 a share in cash, or about $235 million, representing a premium of about 41 percent from Inktomi's ...
Online Search Engine Shake-Up? CBS News
Yahoo Buys Inktomi Search Firm For $235 Million InternetWeek.com
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