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Why can't I send google the pages that have changed on my site? The point is they wouldn't have to hit my site so much with their robots. Plus, the updates would be live. Who wouldn't push their content to google one time rather than take all the hits? (where each hit to a page that hasn't been updated is wasted bandwidth.) Win-win as they say.
I'm not suggesting google change their ranking criteria. Just because you send them pages doesn't mean you'll return higher in searches. Maybe you'd sign up to send them pages, and then if they are already indexing you, they would send you some sort of password to authenticate that your pages are from you. If you're not being indexed they just note your interest, and then send you the key when (or if) they ever start to index you.
Actually, couldn't this be a revenue model for google? Have the service, but only let people send updates once every n hours (or days.) But, it you pay a little, you can send them more frequently. Or if you pay more, in real time. So their model could be free for what they do now, but with the addition of a temporal aspect, so people could search (at least among sites pushing their updates) for things using a very recent time criteria (for instance, you could search for news stories in the last 6 hours about thunderstorms in New York City, or any other sort of recent news event.)
Or am I missing something?
Thinking a lot about email recently. I want to adapt this system to handle all my email (sending, receiving, and most importantly archiving.) Long way to go. I'd love to hear what bugs people about their present email setups (or what you like too, I guess.)
Looks like inside.com is going to (try to) start charging $3.95 a month for most of it's content. Right. That should work.
I guess I knew about this before, but I never really took a good look at Ward Cunningham's WikkiWikkiWeb until recently. Wow. It's a collaborative writing space. You might start with this definition page, and make your way from there. Or maybe start here. Or maybe here. Or, really, any of these. Just keep clicking. Very nice. Even if you don't care about the topic ("an informal history of programming ideas" ) just getting a sense of how the whole thing is structured is pretty cool. So I'm impressed, but I have to say that just letting anyone modify anything on the site seems positively crazy.
Here's a Hack the Planet discussion thread that is worth looking at, at least for the great David McCusker ouija board metaphore:
Yeah, now we're all playing Internet Ouija Board, with lots of folks who want to spell out different things while pretending they are merely passive observers.Plus, this really nice response to Dave Winer's dream of the web as a "fantastic writing environment"
Yes, and that's a good dream. In fact, it's the best one I know about currently, unless I extend the concept of writing to include something more, until the final result is a fantastic dreaming environment.Fantastic dreaming environment? I'll take one of those please. Does it run on OSX?
Short, not too technical Cringely column on setting up a long range (10 kilometer) wireless 802.11b connection
Paul Ford is my hero. He's released the code that runs ftrain, and has posted a page explaining the mighty machine he has built.
Anyone who wants to work on this code with me should drop a line. What's here is an enormously slimmed down micro-version of the original 9 billion lines of shit-code I wrote, and now that it's fast, I want to expand the features, create a core suite of small (PHP?) functions would would be able to auto-execute on each page to allow people to add content to the pages on an ad-hoc basis, and have about 30-40 different little tools to build to make a real, proper Web site publishing framework - tools that for some reason no one else seems to be bothering with...But I know you're all weak, all talk, and that losing your e-commerce stocks took your fire away and you won't actually be joining me in uncovering the possibilities of new narrative connections via the global Interweb because the Web isn't cool anymore. Assholes.... I refuse to forsake the Web I love.
That's it. All documents linked together, all in harmony, all with full knowledge of their place in the hierarchy, but so many possibilities for each to transcend its place.
Sorry, no time for updates today. Dividing my time between the kitchen and the computer. One of the fabled sites I keep saying I am working on is actually about to go live. Plus the guests from Tucson are on the way.
Note to appleinsider: You use this word 'soon' but I do not think it means what you think it means.
Sunny afternoon on Long Island. MB's famous fried fish sandwiches.
David Weinberger has posted some pieces of a new book (which he is writing on line, so these are just early public drafts.) Interesting reading about the web. But does he really need to go to the formality of actually writing the book now?