I wish I had a screenshot to prove it, but not long after I copied a recent geofacts article I wrote over to this blog my Google pagerank dropped from 6 to 2! Lesson from Wise and All Powerful Google Bot: Never self-plagiarize!
Geocoding Family History
For those of you who have been faithfully following my blog (both of you), I am now also posting stuff to techconsumer.com and geofacts.org. Here is a recent post on geofacts that I am also posting here, just to see what the Google bot does to my pagerank when I…
I’m ready to move back to France
I watched SiCKO online tonight, and I am ready to move back to France. There’s a part in the middle of the movie where Michael Moore has a hard time understanding why the media hates the French so much. They have better health care (along with the rest of the…
I now twitter…
Sign up for an account now. Ask questions later. (Questions like “what does this do, and what is it good for?) Like my friend Marion, I can’t really answer the second question when it comes to Twitter. But I joined anyway, so I may as well announce it here. I…
“Give away the content and sell the object”
Here’s an interesting quote from artist Nathaniel Stern recently interviewed on iCommons: “I think we need to recognize that it’s not necessarily at odds to both give away the content and sell the object. Art that is in the public interest can be distributed widely, and the same art can…