rcjordan's blog

#1- Change my contact page to a form with drop-down subjects.
#2- Set up a forced-intro FAQ about the things that there is no reason to contact me about
#3- Under the section about requests to use my photos or articles put HELL NO!

The most frequent nuisances are from the print world, btw. The tell me how wonderful it'll be to have them credit my site(s). Yeah, right.

I've been calling for a blog tab on serps for a long time (last time I recall posting about it was at BK's C8) well before blogs became a total clutter. Now, *gasp* Scoble is getting very close to doing the same.

search engine without blogs

(Good title, eh? Made you look, hhh!)

Scoble, get back to the keyboard. You're blogosphere's not through with you. http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/16.html#a9454

What's the latest-n-greatest spiderable classifieds script out there? Here's my friend's specs (trailers/caravans):

The finished product would be a db searchable/sortable by any number of fields; year, make, model, length, weight, price, value, and it should include two to six photos and as much text as someone wants to write.

I'm early in the process of going digital re household music (video next on the list) and while it seems easy ~and relatively inexpensive~ to do either portable ipod-ish music AND entertainment server-based home theatre surround sound, the middle ground seems to be kind of barren.

What about a dumb-as-a-brick shelf stereo system? There are some parts of the house where I only want to slap in a sd card and hit the PLAY button and could care less about having the media center UI. Also, getting rid of the fan and disk noise would be a big plus in a study or bedroom installation. K.I.S.S. still is the best OS of all.

Having the Zen Micro jacked into an Extigy external Soundblaster card (with remote) and 5.1 CMSS digital speakers seems like the only way to go right now but, man, that's a bit of overkill don't you think?

How are air connections, fares, etc. out of Europe with Charleston SC the destination in April? I need some feedback.

Just got this spam. Think of the technology! Wow!

""His forte has never been as the grown-up running the company," he said. "He's the unpredictable mad genius behind Oracle. His life is an adventure, and Oracle is part of the adventure -- but not the whole thing. It's an old joke that they used to call it an Elvis sighting when Larry was actually in Redwood Shores. It's understood he's the company visionary and an itinerant CEO."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/14/BUGADABB8U1.DTL

"Benevolent or paternalistic aren't words that have ever been seriously associated with Oracle or with its founder and CEO, Larry Ellison. Business is business..."

http://nevon.typepad.com/nevon/2004/12/thinking_time_f.html

...that I used to post articles showing the convergence of the state of robotic development with the movie Terminator. I quit because it became TOO obvious/scary, but I couldn't resist this one, particularly Prof. Kim's last quote:

"If we design the chromosomes quite safely, then we can avoid such a bad situation," he said.

Yeah, right. That's what they ALL say, professor.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9003040

(Without breaking NDAs, this'll have to be generic)

I'm now in the contract-writing stage of selling a group of my domains that are deep-content local sites. Though they are repurposing the domains' primary target, their market is allied with the current userbase so there is no need to abandon the content and ~perhaps~ the new owners will be able to continue some portion of the revenue, though that is not mission-critical. It just seems a waste to walk away from something that is working and I'm willing to put some time into the transition.

I hate the phrase, but this is a win-win situation and I'd like to see the relationship go forward after I've turned the sites over to them, but so often I see buy-outs go sour in the transition. Also, I have some content on the domains that they are acquiring that will need time to move in the SEs, so I'm going to need to be involved for a while. So, what are the things that need to be ironed-out beforehand, i.e., in the contract?

Assume you're buying a strongly branded set of domains in a market niche. What would you want/expect from the seller?