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Social Networking Profiles: What Do They Tell Us?

David Evans, the founder of Psychster LLC,  has an interesting new paper "What Elements of an Online Social Networking Profile Predict Target-Rater Agreement in Personality Impressions".  Thanks to Joe McCarthy of Gumption for his post and analysis.

Also, check out Evan's Project site, YouJustGetMe

Wii Have A Problem...

Link: Wii Have A Problem....

While the total recall of the new Nintendo Wii controller may reduce some of the posts to the Wii have a problem web site my guess is it will continue to be the number one source of videos/images related to why hard core geeks should not be encouraged to engage in physical activity (they hurt themselves, or more importantly, expensive AV equipment).

2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS (Richard MacManus/Read/WriteWeb)

2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS (Richard MacManus/Read/WriteWeb):

2007 Will Be A Big Year For RSS  —  With Microsoft's IE7 just around the corner and the other big Internet companies upgrading key information management products, 2007 is going to be the 'make it or break it' year for RSS.  Fergus Burns noted these 4 key platforms, which are all set to ramp …

Source:   Read/WriteWeb

Author:   Richard MacManus

Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2007_rss.php

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Slicing and dicing web data with Tabulator | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs

Slicing and dicing web data with Tabulator | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs:

Claiming My Blog On Technorati

Maybe I'm a blog star and I just never noticed because Technorati doesn't link the real blogranger.
Technorati Profile

Technorati Blog Info: http://blogranger.typepad.com

Link: Technorati Blog Info: http://blogranger.typepad.com.

Well, we are back to the never ending blog question. If you blog and no one reads you..are you really blogging at all?

The link above goes to the technorati summary of the blogranger blog. Which, painfully lists being the favorite of no one, has no links from any other sites, and is ranked as 1, 200,684 in the blogsphere. I also haven't had any traffic worthy of note...ever.

This is the equivalent of having a "baseball" card for me that says: never at bat, never on the field with the team, but likes the game.

OUCH

Too Funny: New Myspace Killer Aim Pages don't work

Link: My Default Profile.

Nothing more funny then when a new software tool is launched and the developers showcase pages don't work. Look at the link above and see how many scripting errors you get !

Kenton Public Library RSS Goodness

Kenton Public Library RSS Goodness:

Garry Collum works at the Kenton Public Library where they not only have a site that says RSS at the bottom of their page, but a fantastic number of feeds. My favorite? The Newly Indexed Historical Newspaper Articles, which comes directly from their catalog.

Oh, they also have a blog.

Whose Your Daddy: Go Daddy Review

I was intrigued by the exceptionally low prices that Go Daddy offers to register domains. Up until their superbowl ad I really hadn't heard of them. But, at only $9.00 a domain I figured they were something I had to check out.

The first thing I did was take a look at the full Go Daddy Superbowl Ad

After watching the ad, I can say: a) Given the puritans who control the FCC I understand why this didn't make the air, b) the ad is overtly sexist, c) it still hard to not see the tiny bit of ironic humor in the ad.

For $30 I was able to register four domains and establish one commercial (250 outgoing smtp messages a day) email address. What has most impressed me is the Go Daddy customer service. In this age of "please press or say the number "x" to get to our automated help system" I was amazed when I received an unsolicited can we help you phone call from a real human being.

My guess it that most of the Go Daddy users aren't that technically sophisticated. While the individual who contacted me was polite it was clear that he was used to dealing with individuals who didn't understand what a domain was or what they could/should do with them.

Go Daddy earns an early 10/10 from the Blog Ranger. Stay tuned for more.

Label This Photo?

What's the Most Appropriate Title for this Image?
a) I claim this parking lot for the United States of America?
b) That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?
c) Flag...we don't need no stinkin flag.

Or do you have a better idea?