Archive for November, 2009
I’ve been active on Facebook for quite a while now and used one of the apps this morning to generate a tag cloud of my status updates. Seeing the forest I realize how mundane much of what I have to say truly is.
…and my use of Twitter tags.
Recent days have been a torrent of emotion and forced reflection. We loose sight in this nation of how precious life is. We are profoundly blessed to have fellow Americans willing to stand up and place life and limb on the table for liberty. Watching the highlights of the Ft. Hood Memorial one profound passage of General Casey’s remarks moved me:
It’s a tradition in our special operations unit to go to the Book of Isaiah when eulogizing fallen comrades. At the funeral, they read, ‘Then I heard the voice of the Lord asking ‘whom shall I send and who will go for us?’ Then I said ‘Here I am. Send me.’
We forget, far too freely, the impact of this simple sacrifice our countrymen make, every day, of every year for our Republic.
On a day when we honor our veterans and remember those who have fallen in defense of the freedoms we all share there are no better words than those offered by an American President 146 years ago:
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Jason Calacanis, prominent web entrepreneur, lays out an interesting theory concerning Rupert Murdoch’s plan for a new paid-content model with his newspaper properties.
At it’s core it involves modifying site meta properties and instructing Google’s automated crawlers to skip over the WSJ, Fox News, etc. I don’t fully agree with Jason’s analysis. By blocking robots and Google search access to your content you shed massive amounts of pageviews. What you gain in subscription revenue will be massively outweighed by a loss in mind share. Out of sight, out of mind for the droves who currently visit the WSJ and other outlets, largely driven there by standard search.