Looked at Miva's Pay-per-Call service. It apparently is working, but the ads appear only on two sites, mergerplace.com and thebizplace.com. I've never heard of either one. What's the point of advertising on an unknown site? Mergerplace is for people who want to buy companies. What's the point of advertising anything else on that site? The search continues... 0 comments

Ecommerce is now four times larger than at the top of the dotcom boom. Ecommerce sales were $21 billion in Q2/2005 and about 2% of all US retail sales ($940B). At the top of the dotboom, ecommerce was just under $5B. There is as much ecommmerce now in one month as there used to be in an entire quarter. Growth is steady, so ecommerce may reach $50 billion in 2005. yrs, andreas www.andreas.com 0 comments

Here's a good analysis of the dotcom boom/bubble/craze/irrational exhuberance by Thomas Frank. 0 comments

The Flying Spaghetti Monster? Coming soon to a Kansas school science class near you. More in the NYT on the FSM. 0 comments

This entry was posted to the blog from my wireless PDA. Blogger lets you add blog entries via email. I turned on that feature and used the PDA's SMS to send this posting to the blog. To do this: log into your Blogger acct, select Settings, select Email tab, and create a password (yourname.password@blogger.com). Save and exit. Now go to your PDA's contacts list and create a new contact named MyBlog (or whatever), add that password email address (yourname.password@blogger.com), and save. Finally, open to your wireless device's SMS (or email tool), write a blog entry, and send an email (or SMS) to that new email address. This lets you make blog entries via SMS or email from your wireless PDA, SMS cellphone, WiFi laptop, or your Bluetooth-enabled running shoes. You can update your blog wherever you are. This also includes photos.

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Computer Associates' ezAntivirus should be renamed "ezSpam". A few days ago, they "updated" the program. You had no choice; if you didn't update, antivirus protection was turned off until you updated. What's the new update feature? Whenever it detects and deletes a virus, it puts a popup message on your screen and REMINDS you that Computer Associates ezAntivirus has done its job. Oh, about 10-20 times a day. There's no way to turn off this "feature". Popup blockers can't stop this. It's just spam. 0 comments

Looking for a better job? Here's a few search engine for jobs: Indeed.com, SimplyHired.com, and Workzoo.com. There's also JobTiz.com, which is a database of public, private non profit companies as well as recruiting firms in CA. 0 comments

Okay, SES is over and I'm still recovering. SEroundtable.com sent a team to SES and they wrote summaries of nearly every presentation. See a list of items at searchenginejournal.com. We learned a great deal at SES. New vendors, new tools, lots of info from the talks. 0 comments

The Super8mm Home Movie Digitization project continues. I'm digitizing 24 reels of home movies to create a few DVDs which we can distribute within our family. In the Spring, I edited the 24 reels down to 12 reels. I sent off a small 3-min reel to be digitized. It came back on a DVD. It plays on my DVD player and I can copy the files (220 MB) onto my computer, where I can edit them. So that works. The next step is to digitize the large reels (est. 61 GB in files), edit those down, and produce a set of 2-3 DVDs. I'll need a mini-DV tape player and a video capture card. I'll do this in the next few weeks. In the end, I'll write an FAQ on the process. 0 comments