It’s interesting that I read two things about buying Twitter publicity today: John C Dvorak’s experiment for PC Magazine and an interview with my classmate and friend Ken. The idea is that people buy Twitter followers to make themselves look bigger than they are, whether they’re celebrities trying to make themselves look like they’re on [...]
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Exploiting Twitter
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 10, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/exploiting-twitter/
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson needed to explain himself
I understand Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s predicament. I don’t agree with how he handled it. You see, both Scott Thompson and I work in the technical industry, and neither of us have a degree in computer science, computer engineering, some other kind of engineering, high mathematics, or another socially accepted relevant-to-the-industry field.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 5, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/yahoo-ceo-scott-thompson-needed-to-explain-himself/
The difference between piracy and linking
Rupert Murdoch doesn’t understand the difference between piracy and linking. So I’ll explain it in terms any middle-school-aged kid should be able to understand.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 17, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/01/the-difference-between-piracy-and-linking/
A source of great inspiration evaporates
Google announced this week that it’s defaulting to https (secure) searches, and not passing search queries on to the sites its user clicks anymore. It’s the end of an era, I guess, and I’ll miss it. Yeah, I looked at the search queries that come into this site. I’ve been doing it for years.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 20, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/10/a-source-of-great-inspiration-evaporates/
How to use WordPress’ drafts feature to your advantage
In 1994, I was a rookie columnist for my college newspaper. My predecessor, Judd Slivka, had stepped aside to become sports editor. Judd asked me one day how my new gig was going, and I observed that ideas were coming to me faster than I could write them. “Write them down,” he urged me. “You’ll [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on July 10, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/07/how-to-use-wordpress-drafts-feature-to-your-advantage/
Bias is good?
Blekko could be an idea whose time has come. It’s a search engine with bias. The idea is, you punch in what you’re looking for, and include a slash term to bias the search in a particular direction. That could help filter out spam sites–sites that are loaded with keywords and a few links but [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 1, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/11/bias-is-good/
Are Google\’s corporate perks excessive?
Google’s corporate perks are the subject of a Fortune magazine article. I’m going to take what I suspect is a contrarian view on this. I think Google’s excessive spending on its employee perks is a good thing.
Why? Because I’ve seen what happens with the opposite.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 15, 2007
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2007/01/are-googles-corporate-perks-excessive/
Terms of use for this site (Or: Deep-link me, please)
So, more companies are attempting to prohibit so-called deep linking, which is where you can’t link to stories themselves, but rather, you have to link to the front page and the poor reader has to try to find the story you’re thinking about.
So let it be known that you can link to anything on this site you darn well please. Not only do I allow it, I like it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 14, 2005
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2005/02/terms-of-use-for-this-site-or-deep-link-me-please/
Will Firefox be Netscape’s revenge?
John C. Dvorak says the browser wars are still raging. He cites figures from his blog as evidence that IE only has 50% market share.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 14, 2004
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2004/09/will-firefox-be-netscapes-revenge/
The difference that posting frequency makes when blogging
Some time ago, I gave the advice that it doesn’t really matter if you post every day or not. I think my rationale was that quality matters more than quantity, or at least it should. And although I still believe that in an ideal world, quality should matter more than quantity, now I have around [...]
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/05/the-difference-that-posting-frequency-makes-when-blogging/