Blogging Roller

Ian Kallen: I'm not condemning AdSense per se, it's a great service and revitalized web advertising after the flame-out a few years ago. But black-hat SEO's have definitely cranked up the game over the last year or so and are putting the whole market at risk again. Google may not be particularly motivated to go out and find the abuse but they have to act against it when you bring it to their attention. Watch this video.

Yesterday, Microsoft released a second beta of IE7. I installed it, re-built and re-tested my example code. I haven't found any significant changes yet and none off my issues have been addressed. The item.id field is still an integer, unique only within the the feed. There is still no item.summary field. You can't parse feeds from disk. The Common Feed Extensions still live in the Simple List Extensions namespace. Oh well.

Andy Oliver: For all I know Google is search, email, maps and a large experiment where programmers who do cool things are bought, frozen and put in a crate after having all of their spinal fluid removed. Why spinal fluid? Well just like most of Google's betas it might be useful someday.

That cracked me up. You know what else cracked me up? Laser Cats killed on Saturday night. Not sure how well it will work on Tuesday morning.