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:: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 ::

Cre8asiteForums update....we're still at our temporary home at www.cre8asite.net/Forums/ but our new server is being built now and we expect to move shortly. It's business as usual though, with lots of talk about Google's SJ Data Center, the client is always right (not!) and where oh where do you put the navigation bar?

A special thanks to Kalena Jordan of High Search Engine Ranking and her Search Engine News blog for helping us get the word out to you about forums status. We worry about our users, but I'm also cracking up at what Google spiders must be "thinking" about our dancing (moving around) pages. Our new home will have LOTS of room, and to prevent more hacking, placed in a little known spot on the Planet Jupiter.


Where the blazes have these people been???? Spam E-Mail Problem Worse Than Imagined. After a 3 day forum on spam, the consensus is there's a serious problem. Duh.

Wanted. Ancient objects worth tons of money. Hand it over to us if you see one lying around (as if.) Seriously though, this site attempts to identify the stolen treasures from Iraq's museums >>> LOST TREASURES FROM IRAQ and with any luck, common decency and humanity, some of it may be found and returned home.

More reasons to avoid JavaScript if you want your web page indexed...Pandia writes "The Search Engine News newletter reports that Google may be downgrading pages that contains affiliate links coded with the javascript "onmouseover" variable."

Did you know you can use AlltheWeb as a calculator? Pandia also notes:

"Enter, for instance, 365*24, hit enter, and AlltheWeb gives you the answer (8760).

The following functions are supported:

Multiply: *
Divide: /
Add: +
Subtract: -
Exponent: ^
Use parentheses to group operations: (5+5)*6 "

Now why didn't Google think of this?

Looking for brainfood? Try Shaping the Web: Why the politics of search engines matters
Quote: "Our study of search engines suggests that they systematically exclude (in some cases by design and in some accidentally) certain sites, and certain types of sites, in favor of others, systematically give prominence to some at the expense of others. We argue that such biases, which would lead to a narrowing of the Web’s functioning in society, run counter to the basic architecture of the Web as well as the values and ideals that have fueled widespread support for its growth and development."

Wow. Something good to read while on my exercise bike! (Thanks Peter!)

And finally.... Today's Ponder (courtesy of Coolquiz.com)

"You are either part of the solution or part of the problem."
- [Leroy] Eldridge Cleaver

Countdown...21 days until my birthday........

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 5/06/2003 08:53:21 AM

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