Anne Zelenka just incremented her version number, announcing Anne 2.1 pro.
Me, I’m staying with 3.0 
Archives for March 5, 2007
Technorati Still Needs a White Knight
Posted on March 5, 2007 ·
“I’ve complained so much about Technorati‘s non-performance, it’s getting boring.” – This is a quote from a post I wrote 9 month ago. Nothing changed since then. They keep on changing the humorous (?) error messages:
No, sorry guys, it’s not a Monster. Perhaps a Snail. A Turtle at max.
I recognize Technorati for being innovators in the Blogosphere, and I prefer using it for the features. But there is one “feature” where Google Blog Search wins: it works. All the time. Technorati is dead more often than not, and even when it’s “alive”, it’s barely crawling.
Technorati is clearly an IP company ( a damned good at that) that cannot cope with the infrastructure requirements of the growing Blogosphere. Isn’t there a White Knight out there that would acquire them and save us all from this slow suffocation?
Update: Wow, quite a coincidence: Read/WriteWeb is discussing Technorati’s exit options today.
Conservapedia: an Exclusionist Wikipedia-Clone
Posted on March 5, 2007 ·
And I thought Wikipedia’s deletionists were exclusionist. Oh, boy, was I wrong… the real exclusionists created their own Wikipedia-clone:
“Conservapedia is a much-needed alternative to Wikipedia, which is increasingly anti-Christian and anti-American… Conservapedia is an online resource and meeting place where we favor Christianity and America.”
How can it possibly be an objective source of “historical, scientific, legal, and economic topics” by excluding the views of the majority of the World?
As for Christianity and America, I hate to bring this to the Conservafolks, but Christianity really, really did not originate in America. Not that Conservapedia’s entry on Christianity explains anything – you’ll have to check out Wikipedia for that.
Conservapedia doesn’t fare any better on the *minor* [sic] contribution to history, science, culture, architecture ..etc by pre-Christian civilizations like Egypt, China, Greece ..etc. For example here’s the entire entry on Egypt:
“The oldest non-nomadic civilization in the world which still exists today. Egypt is located in north-east Africa. ”
Greece does not do any better:
“The collective term for the civilizations of the Greek subcontinent.”
Nice. Concise? Pathetic.
Conservapedia started as a school project. (Again, we have to visit Wikipedia, not Conservapedia to learn this). I’m sure eliminating diversity, filtering out most of the World’s knowledge is the best way to improve our kids’ education. As if America were not already falling behind in education. My advice to the Conservafolks: get Senator Ted Stevens on board.
Tags: wikipedia, conservapedia, religion, christianity, diversity, wikis, bigotry, conservatism, exclusionism
The Web’s Top 50 by PC World
Posted on March 5, 2007 ·
Despite what Time Magazine says, *WE* are not the most important people on the Web. PC World has just published the list of The 50 Most important people on the Web.
Topping the list is the Google Triumvirate – no surprises there. Steve Jobs in the #2 slot? Hm, I don’t know… and BitTorent #3?
I’m certainly happy to see Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales in the 5th position and Craig(slist) Newmark in no 7. To be fair, I am biased, happy for them, not sure whether those are the right slots …
Youtube’s Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are #10 – but wait, they are now a Yahoo property, and their “owners” (Oops, my bad, pre-coffee mistake, of course Gootube is part of Google… thanks to Christopher for correcting me) , Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel only come in slot #19!
On a personal note, I’m glad to see several blogging personalities recognized, including Robert Scoble (Scobleizer), Mike Arrington (TechCrunch), Dave Winer (Scripting News) as well as those who significantly contributed to the blogging infrastrucure: Matt Mullenweg (WordPress), Kevin Rose (Digg), Gabe Rivera (Techmeme), Rob Malda (Slashdot).
Now, of course if PC World really wanted to live up to the Open Web, they would have concluded the article with an open poll, letting *us* come up with our own ranking….
Related posts: HipMojo.com, Guardian Unlimited, Blogtronix , Now I Have a Blog Too ,
Good Morning Silicon Valley, WOW Insider, Rex Hammock’s weblog, Scobleizer, Mark Evans, 901am, and The Other Here
Update (3/05): A funny quirk on Techmeme: The Yahoo News version of the PC World article gets all the exposure while PC World’s own blog entry that points to the article sits separated in an obscure corner. Update to the update: they are now merged.
Tags: pc world, top 50, influencers, web’s top 50
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