2004 July

Terry Teachout has recently issued some “notes” on blogging that I would like to address. I first found out about these “notes” via Outside the Beltway.
1. It’s almost impossible to explain what a blog is to someone who’s never seen one. That’s the mark of a true innovation.
That would be one’s inability to articulate. […]

Rumor has it that Google is going through another update.
My research indicates that Google has completed an update of sorts. Do some searching and see how the results have changed.
Looking at backlinks to chrisshort.net indicates there has been an update. However, PageRank has yet to have been recalculated. I’m interested in seeing […]

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I’ve been quite busy.
I’m looking at pushing out a few new entries starting Monday. Thanks for your patience.

At 0002 Eastern this morning SlapYoFaceOff opened its doors to the world.
SlapYoFaceOff is one of the newest Short Consulting clients and I was more than happy to take on this project.
SlapYoFaceOff is a comedy site that finds people willing to be slapped and pairs them up with people that are more than willing to slap […]

I’m very happy to announce that chrisshort.net is now being featured on NewsNow.
About NewsNow:
With more than 300,000 users worldwide, NewsNow is the UK’s leading online press monitoring company.Started in 1997, NewsNow’s services include NewsNow.co.uk, one of the UK’s most popular news portals. Our corporate services include online press cuttings, market intelligence, competitor tracking and web […]

Here is some of the latest news from around the information technology world. This should make for some good Tuesday morning reading.
Google to be Listed on Nasdaq
Reuters is reporting that Google Inc. is going to list $2.7 billion of stock in its IPO on the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. Google did not specify […]

For about a week now I’ve been hunting for a good RSS aggregator. I really didn’t want a web based RSS aggregator because they are usually a pain to manage. I looked hard and heavy and found SharpReader. It’s phenomenal. The power it packs and features it has are incredible. […]

SlashDot is running a story saying that the twice a day DNS updates of .com and .net domains will cease to exist; VeriSign Naming and Directory Services will be switching to a near real-time system on September 8, 2004.
From the announcement:
After the rapid DNS update is implemented, the elapsed time from registrars’ add or change […]

Jay Allen posted an article on MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse stating that there has been a massive trackback spam campaign going on.
MT-Blacklist for MovableType 3.0 doesn’t exist yet but Jay did mention that there should be a release in “a few days” but also alluded to the fact that he might push out an emergency release […]

After a lot of just sitting and thinking I’ve finally made my decision about which keyboard is going to be on my desk.
As much as I hate to say it I’m going to buy another Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite.
I did try out the Dell keyboards at work but I noticed I fatigued (got tired of […]