24 Jan 2012

Google Santorum

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Search for "Santorum" and the top result will land you on this page. I was just alerted to this long running campaign via a friend's Facebook post. The details of it are documented on Wikipedia. Its part political activism against the US senator's anti gay remarks, part organic google bomb. Organic in the sense that organic search terms are ones that rise to the top of search engine results pages without manipulation. The wikipedia entry of the campaign to create this neologism (a new word definition) included this account of the request to Google to address the matter. 

In September 2011 Santorum asked Google to intervene by altering the indexing of the content, saying, "If you're a responsible business, you don't let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country...To have a business allow that type of filth to be purveyed through their website or through their system is something that they say they can't handle but I suspect that's not true."[4] In response to Santorum's request, a Google spokesperson asserted that Google does not "remove content from our search results, except in very limited cases such as illegal content and violations of our webmaster guidelines."[4]

This story strikes me as a kind of keyboard democracy. Its the popularity, interest and linking to this page that is resulting in the high search result. And perhaps some future business for reputation managers out there. 

23 Jan 2012

just don't think I'll get round to reading Pauline's latest political critique

23 Jan 2012

I really should have looked at the table of contents to see what instruction these Facebook manuals provided

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21 Jan 2012

Procrastination is watching this video

18 Jan 2012

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17 Jan 2012

App to co-ordinate disaster volunteers

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A new smartphone app will help mobilise and co-ordinate volunteers during an emergency or disaster in the future, and it could also prove profitable for Queensland. The Ready Qld app, developed by Volunteering Queensland with assistance from the University of Queensland, is free and serves several purposes, Premier Anna Bligh told reporters yesterday. The application was designed following the unprecedented volunteer response to last year's floods when, within three days, 55,000 people, dubbed the "mud army", turned out in force to clean houses, roads and buildings across the state.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/app-to-coordinate-disaster-volunte...

17 Jan 2012

Sad! Arson ruled out as 3500-year-old tree burns down

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Saw "Big tree" in Tasmania and it was mind boggling. 87 metres tall! The tree in this story is 36 metres.

15 Jan 2012

haha party

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great posters, better parties
15 Jan 2012

Cool tee as worn by James

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12 Jan 2012

Hoyt's POS innovation

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7 Jan 2012

Marilyn Monroe - beauty, wit, icon

7 Jan 2012

swissmiss | Polaboy

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anyone who knows my polaroids knows what this means to me. Must submit some photos.

6 Jan 2012

ari's Friday tee

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3 Jan 2012

Self Inking ID Stamp

3 Jan 2012

Short Order Designer

31 Dec 2011

The use of social media makes for an arresting site

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Great read on the use of social networks by government agencies in disaster situations. Also some interesting critique on the way awards are determined and judged.

"They were following our Taskforce's recommendation: learning by doing from umpteen small failures and successes, rather than getting bogged down in endless planning and permission seeking up the line."

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-use-of-social-media-makes-for-an-arresting...

24 Dec 2011

Blue neon baby Jesus

23 Dec 2011

57 Chevrolet

21 Dec 2011

Hold Up Henson Park Hotel Info Sheet

21 Dec 2011

kitty cat paste up

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User experience architect. Occasional designer and art marker. Coffee addict. Tea connoisseur. News obsessed. Web zealot. Lover of kitsch, and sucker for design objects. Collector of thoughts and things.

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