The NFL has a clause in their contract that allows them to move the Pro Bowl from Hawaii to an alternate venue for one year. Sites under consideration are China, Japan, Australia and Europe. Right…because if you can’t get football players to go to Hawaii during the winter, London in February will be much more successful. :)
When you’re redesigning navigation on a site, one of the important tasks is to assess your most successful outside search keywords — those that keep people around the longest — to see what terminology your visitors use for your content. For instance, looking at my search stats, I should have a Jackie Manuel section, dedicated to one of the greatest defensive basketball players in UNC history. Why is my site a frequent destination for Jackie Manuel searchers? Because I wrote an article in 2005 about Jackie going to a NBADL team that comes up third in Google’s search for “Jackie Manuel.” ...
Silly String as safety device? Brilliant! Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air, they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly invisible.
Jon Udell writes about trying to define “the learnable component of effective search.” Last night an old friend who runs a small software company confessed a secret. When he and his staff answer technical questions for clients, they are often “only” searching Google. At one point, he even asked a client: “Do you really want us to search Google for you at $100/hour?” Yes, in fact they did. My friend thought that was crazy. I suggested that it’s not as crazy as it sounds. Effective search depends on reservoirs of tacit knowledge and unconscious skill. Some people possess much deeper reservoirs, and/or can tap into them more effectively, than others. That makes them valuable. ...
Rumor has it that Sam Raimi plans to direct a movie featuring Doc Savage, the Shadow, and the Avenger. Please, please, please let it be true! :)
Percival X. Walker, Greensboro Billionaire, and his Peace Plan for Blog Commenter Wars (Inspired By Michael Richards). :) See also “Percy’s Big Gay Economic Development Plan” and “Be Thankful that the Pilgrims Recognized the Failure of Communism.”
More random stuff I thought I’d blog about, but haven’t: Three lies about social software - I can’t state it any better than this: “The ’team’ represented by a given blog community is actually a collection of incredibly diverse people, with common interests rather than common views.” Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time. Windows Vista Product Guide - A feature-by-feature guide to Windows Vista, by Microsoft. Link courtesy of OSNews. ...
5,000 years of history mapped in 90 seconds. Link courtesy of Too Many Topics, Too Little Time.
Apparently Brett Favre brings his own weather with him on the road. Green Bay and Seattle are playing Monday Night Football in a snowstorm, in Seattle. When you’re watching pro wrestling, and two tag teams are competing called D-Generation X and the Spirit Squad, it’s inevitable the team named DX will be the good guys. According to the USA Network, we shouldn’t just respect Pearl Harbor veterans for being great soldiers fighters. They were also great lovers. ...
Good mashup. Link courtesy of TV Squad.