The Google always has its eye on you whether you like it or not, but sometimes, you can turn around that Panopticonic gaze to do you some good as in the case of the recent “Site Performance” release as a new part of the Google Webmaster Tools suite. Sometimes just adding fans to propel your websites faster into the internet ether just isn’t enough to make a difference with a distinction.
Continue reading → Setting Up GZIP for Google Site Performance
Are we forever at the end of the Know-It-All? You know the sort of person I’m describing, right? The kind who always know the right answer to everything when asked and, if not asked, will offer up blind bits of trivia on their own accord from the dark recesses of history while simultaneously adding living citations and quotes from books, politicians and serving up sharp shards of microinformation that only encyclopedia writers need to know.
A couple of days ago, in our Memeingful blog, I wrote an article called — “Stealing Janna Sweenie” — that dealt with an un-named seller on an un-named commercial website that was using Janna’s good name and American Sign Language products to sell really ugly postcards and other knickknacks and trinkets.
Today, I am ready to reveal the rest of the story and to publicly identify CafePress.com as the commercial website involved.
Continue reading → The Deceit of Cached CafePress Keyword Artifacts
There’s nothing I hate more than when a company “improves” their product to only make it dumber and less friendly than it was before the improvement. Today’s case-in-point are The Google — who decided to goof with how a Google Docs file is saved and then released from view.
We already know that Google is a master at peeping at us. I’m not all that bothered about Google having their street teams out and about if it means that it will be easier for me to find my way to the Nederlander theater. I feel a little odd, if it is a true report, about the idea of Google entering stores and allowing people to virtually walk around them.
UPDATE August 4, 2010: I now officially have the answer for my inquiry asked six months ago — Who Killed Google Wave? — and the nayslayer is… Google itself.
I want to know why Google Wave was found dead in its grave and who put it there? It’s been a couple of months since there’s been any news on Wave from Google. All the interesting active “Waves” have washed out. What’s up with the Wave?
Tom Casady is currently the Chief of Police for Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child of Lincoln, I enjoy reading his fantastic blog called, “The Chief’s Corner.” I was recently alarmed when I read an article written by Tom that rehashed the offensive/silly/inappropriate email usernames people use to inquire about employment with the Lincoln Police Department. I was shocked to see the email usernames of applicants revealed in public on Tom’s blog because that is in the least a violation of privacy for those making an inquiry, and perhaps, even a more serious ethical violation of a vested public city official. I was unable to find the recent article that shocked me, but doing a search on Tom’s site led me to a dead link for this page written on December 2, 2008 where Tom Casady revealed live email usernames of the inquirers — figuring our the entire email address is not that hard and often doing a Google search on a unique username alone can reveal a lot. I have blurred the email addresses contained in that article:
Continue reading → When the Chief of Police Violates Privacy
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