TechMeme: Anti-linking Engine

I’ve noticed this several times and thought I’d bring it up. TechMeme seems to penalize bloggers who link to other bloggers. Most bloggers believe that a major part of how TechMeme decides which is the most important story is to count links. That isn’t true in following mine, and other people’s results. I believe there’s a “linking penalty” on TechMeme. At least it seems that…

Inside Google’s Gears

So, what did Google just do with its introduction of “Gears?” Setup its suite of office applications to go offline. Oh, and everyone else’s too. Zojo? ConceptShare? Zimbra? All will be able to go offline soon if their developers adopt Google’s Gears.

“Mortified” Six Apart CEO Makes Apologies

All right.  I know there are a lot of passionate LiveJournal users out there, and I know censorship is bad.  But in this case, it was also somewhat funny.  LiveJournal claimed it had blocked access to around 500 journals on the basis that they supported pedophilia - turns out, some of them were just discussing Lolita.

Algorithm Apathy Affecting Ask Ads?

Jim Lanzone and company want to own the mindshare for the word 'algorithm' as their massive advertising campaign to promote that and Ask's brand continues.