You are looking at posts that were written in the month of April in the year 2004.
Posted on April 2nd, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: indescribable.
Well, blogging about the R-meeting last night, casually, while watching conversation roll off of tongues and patter through #channels, made me think about the speed with which interactive xsation takes place in different media, its staying power there, and its capacity for catalysing ideas, rather than retarding them into a vague medium of shared language.
Posted on April 1st, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: popular demand.
So, here’s the situation.
Noticing that the G-spot for “Jew” is an anti-semitic site,
Informed by the G-Man that they’re not arbiters of propriety,
Someone decides to make a more suitable site the top hit.
Asking his friends to rally round,
Choosing the Wikipedia article [[Jew]] for its fine qualities,
(”…most inclusive, non-denominational, and democratic source…”)
He initiates a G-juicing campaign.
In a week, the article’s ranking rises to the first page of results, but
not yet to the hotseat. I love the idea and I love Wikipedia –
why is this the first positive googlebomb I’ve heard of? — S.
Posted on April 1st, 2004 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.
I get to blog tonight’s non-webcast blogger meeting… how exciting. (sorry that J won’t be there, though!) and there’s a big oddball party at my place tomorrow… and an amazing story about WP, the Jerusalem Post, and antisemitic sites with high page rank. Next, on Sjeraldo…