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Scoble is Right and Arrington, and Loic are wrong about “authority”?

PaulDecember 28, 2008

This weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having “authority” search functions. I say this is totally not going to work because some factors. I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall. Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more “authority” and because he is looking for good content. I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company. I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company. I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.

[ad#cricket-1-1]Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this. I have to wonder why he wants to agree. You see he is also into content and understand that if the “authority” for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews. I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content. Also that would mean his blog post would have more “authority” then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn’t see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back. So we have these two wanting more “authority” and more content.

Then we have Scoble and his blog post. Now let’s talk about this from where scoble says it’s a bad idea. Scoble talks about gaming the system, and if you think back to Digg killing all the high number of members because they were using scripts. Here we are again with regards to twitter. Now if we have authority people are going to game the system because no matter how hard we try it will be a competition.

We have botnets and we have bots on twitter. It really isn’t hard to have a bot on twitter, and that is where we have a problem. You see if we have “authority” and we want to game the system. We just have bots with authority and by having other bots subscribe to each other. There lies the problem. People will easily be able to game te system and create even more trouble finding the content they are so dearly looking for. Now I don’t usually get into the whole “he’s right and he wrong” disputes but this one has to be brought to people attentions.

I say this when did “Authority” stop people from talking about the really important stuff happening in the world. We have people from Friendfeed talking about this and we have people from twitter talking about this als. Loic and Arrington need to learn content isn’t hard to find, it will always be there. You just have to open your eyes to see. The way I see it, we have a coin and we have the good and bad. We should just keep the bad out of there and keep the good stuff we already have. This goes in the bad idea bin for the time.

Some bloggers are Hyping Windows 7 operating System.

PaulOctober 30, 20083 Replies

After looking around the blogosphere, I’ve come to the realization that people are starting to get hyped up over Windows 7. In one blog post from it.toolbox.com:

[ad#ad2]Windows 7 is due to hit beta and release in 2009, and odds are likely that if the pundits, all of us on the blogosphere and other places like PC World, Cnet, and others all agree that this works the way a computer was supposed to work will help drive sales. What is also interesting is that Microsoft is really pushing to get this puppy out. Along with the bloat are gone the five years of development.

[Via It.Toolbox.com]

I totally agree with what he is saying on the possibility to have an operating system actually do what it is told. Some things people have been looking for in there Searches in regards to Windows Vista are:

Vista Shutdown Problems

User Account Control

Vista SuperFetch

Vista and Battery Life

What Microsoft Doesn’t want you to know!!

From what I can tell people are really having problems with Vista and Shutting down. It always hangs for about 10 to 20 minutes. I’ve come up with a few tricks to shutdown vista little more. So let’s get back to why people are so interested in Windows 7, that is easy they want to have a OS that will make them have a better experience with Vista. I also think it was the Vista and Macintosh aids that also made people not like Vista. Microsoft is just now starting to fight back but the Damage is done and people feel Vista is just not worth using or buying. I tend to disagree, with the flaws of this Operating system, I’ve learn so much from diving in and getting my hands dirty so to speak.

[ad#ad2-1]Where is the future of Window Vista, I say the next Operating system will “Windows 7” but it will be Vista Version 2. It should be far better than Version 1, because of having all that time to fix the most common mistakes and programming errors. It is likely going to create a smoother transition for people from XP to Vista V.2. I am not going to call it Windows 7 because it is so similar to Vista and it just doesn’t seem right. What are you going to call it when it comes out?

I will leave the specualation for WIndows 7 for some others and how they will want to hype up this new operating system because people want something better than Vista. I can not deny them, there will always be people to find flaws in any Operating System. I do want want to be in the Windows 7 Beta just so I can test it out and keep people up to date on what might or might not be in the system when it comes out. I think it has a lot of potential, don’t you?

Filling the internet need 1/3

PaulAugust 12, 2008

“See the need, Fill the Need” — Robots Movie (2005)

Having seen the movie, I figured I’d offer some insights into how to create demand for your site. Yes it is something that comes with knowing your client or I should call them web users. If it wasn’t for these people, you wouldn’t have a reason to blog. I don’t say that lightly, you would still have a desire to blog but that in itself wouldn’t get your where you are today.

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Where are you today?

Are you not getting the desired Google hits or even yahoo search hits. I’ve found that having them look at my site it is the matter of what the current web user is looking for. Most of the time on my website, they come here to find out how to and Hulu information. I am not a big blog, I’ve got my readers who come to my site regularly and those who are what I like to call a hit and miss. They are the ones that come to my site and then leave not doing anything but looking for a particular information or a how to. They don’t care what your blog is about, they want to get in and fix there problem and will probably not remember anything about your site. This is to be expected. Most people use Google religiously and not sites.

What do you mean people use Google more often?

I’ve seen so many people use Google to get to my site. They put in tech-linkblog, techlinkblog, tech link blog, and so on. I have so many people do that sometimes, I wonder if I should come up with an easier name. Is having an easier name to remember much better or do they use Google? Using Google isn’t bad, it’s easiest to do because when you start up your Firefox Browser. It automatically start up with:

This is the common start up page for Mozilla Firefox. So you can see how easy it is to use google when you need to find something really quickly.

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How do I serve the other blogs?

I’m am betting you are wondering why you want to support other blogs? It’s something that comes with understanding the web users. It comes with the territory. We know that most web users want content and have links to other web sites just to give people the chance to find some good content. I am not going to say you need to create the best content but having content is implied to having the best possible content for people to find your blog.

This is going to be a 3 part blog discussing this very topic and my thoughts on this. Keep watching for the next 2 parts of this to come in the next two days.