Last night I drove into San Francisco for a meeting of the BALUG (Bay Area Linux Users Group). I’d never been to a BALUG meeting before, but Mark Shuttleworth (the founder of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux) was speaking and I wanted to size up Mark in person. He acquitted himself well. He spoke about [...]

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Google Israel turned out the lights and flipped their white background color to black for שעת כדור הארץ (aka Earth Hour). What is ironic is that we reported in the past that Google argued that black uses more energy that white. (Although they participated in Lights Out San Francisco last October as a symbolic [...]

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Posted by rebecca
Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:Two star links:

Sarah found this post that gives an extremely 101 take on blogging and found it to be exceptionally amusing, though I’ll note that not everyone out there knows as much as us genius web marketers. I’m sure that people like my mom, [...]

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A few weeks back, I started wondering about whether or not search engines might care whether a web site had a privacy policy or not. Is the content of a page less relevant or more relevant if there’s a link on it to information about how any data collected about visitors might be [...]

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Posted by randfish
We’re just not getting any visitors from the search engines…
I probably hear that line 30X or more each week - over email, in phone calls, in conversation, on forums, etc. and to tell the truth, it would be really handy to have a resource I could point folks for some self-diagnosis. If only there [...]

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