Damien Mulley

Google Blog Search is out. Remind me again how long ago they bought Blogger? Google has turned into that Battleship they should never have been. Does it really take this long to build a blog search engine? Everyone else is way before them on this, when they actually had the chance to be first on the market.

Besides it should be called Google RSS Search, not Blog Search. I get Irish Examiner RSS feeds in the results. They don’t do blogs. I’ve also noticed a few spam blogs in the first few results for certain searches. Some are blatantly obvious too. Perhaps there should be a “Flag This” next to the result or would that allow some jealous people to try and rig results?

When I typed in a search for my own name I had assumed I’d get results back with people mentioning me on their blogs, as I do with pub sub and IceRocket and so on. Nope. It returned back all the posts on this site. That’s shite. Hardly any of those blog entries mention my name in them, it’s just the name of my site. Rejig the algorithms Google. This is a monumental let-down.

Steve Balmer coming to Dublin.

The Irish Times tells us today that Hobbes threatened legal action over an article in the Village. Publication today was halted but it is to go ahead tomorrow with nothing changed, allegedly. Handy that it gets a mention in the Irish Times now. Should boost numbers.

Vinton Cerf Joins Google. Didn’t Vint want to build the Internet out to Mars? Will the Google Moon labs now move to Mars? His title is “Chief Internet Evangelist”, is he going to compete with Robert Scoble by blogging non-stop and talking up the good things about Google?

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On the Last Word yesterday evening Hobbes said he was not going on the Late Late on Friday. He has said he did not agree to appear on the Late Late Show. Is this just an attempt to have a better bargaining position with Pat Kenny to make sure that he is not eaten alive by the rabid Fianna Fáil pro-Groceries Order people?

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Via Doc Searls is this fantastic Flickr photo of a note to a resident about their porn.

“Dear Residents of 2412 Fulton…, I was dumpster diving and came accross the abundance of porn in your trash. I have a friend who would love to have it.

Eddie goes head to head with the lobbyists or lobbyist backed FF politicos on the Late Late on Friday night. Should be very entertaining. Eddie has had exclusive interviews with all the papers. I love their definition of what exclusive is. We exclusively talked to him one on one for 10 seconds!

I noticed RGDATA have taken out big ads in the paper to say why the Competition Authority are wrong. Shame on them for doing a “won’t someone think of the children” propoganda style ad by asking us to think about the poor people and the charities who provide for them. Some charities have said killing the Groceries order will increase costs of goods for poor people. I wonder who convinced them of that?

Hobbs again today is all over the papers. Why is it every picture of him has him half scowling and his arms tightly folded? More commentary on Eddie: P45 Rant on Eddie Hobbs, Boards.ie thread on Eddie Hobbs, Bernie creates a list of what Eddie Hobbs wants.

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Via Donncha: This is what it’s like being poor. Nothing pisses me off more than people who try and think they were affected by poverty because they had to go without. Some people never had the with to know what going without was.

Parasites take over the body of a Grasshopper and control it. I sent this link to two people and they both thought it would make a great military application.

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Annie Liebowitz – Designers – Alice in Wonderland theme. Result: Cool photos.

Localhost – Bittorrent Filesystem. Not sure of the applications for such a system yet.

Eddie Hobbs opinion piece in he Sunday Business Post.

If the criticism in Rip Off Republic and its presentation style has managed to focus minds on the complex solutions needed to address these problems, the programme has done its job.

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Bush certainly doesn’t give a goddamn. His whole administration couldn’t. 2000 murdered in New York, they plunge America into massive debt by invading 2 countries to sort out some DurkaDurkak terrorists. 10,000 black people die in New Orleans and nothing. Jokes with a known racist about sitting on the porch of his rebuilt holiday home.

This BBC reporter’s quote says it all:

The truth was simple and apparent to all. If journalists were there with cameras beaming the suffering live across America, where were the officers and troops?

I’m glad to see the American people outraged about this, but you voted this administration in, twice! Have you finally realised that he only cares for you if you are obscenely rich and white? Only 3 more years of this blundering fool. God save you all.