the ryan king

q = t * i

where
q = quality of the food,
t = time necessary to prepare food and
i = quality of ingrediants.

For example, Taco Bell food would have absurdly low values for i and relatively low values for t, so therefore rather low values for q, often which often manifests itself with quick trips to the restroom (or, in common parlance, a run for the border).

Watch this it is amazing, beautiful, exciting and terrible.

The scariest thing is that I’m working on a research project right now that deals with these issues of information personalization and social networking. Maybe Googlezon will hire me?

As many know, Google announced recently what they claim to be a solution to blog comment spam. Their solution is to allow web authors to take away the PageRank propagation incentive from certain links by adding the rel=”nofollow” attribute to links.

Marcus Baker has an intersting piece detailing why he thinks this initiative won’t work. I agree with him.

But I think it could be worse. In some recent research I did on spam, I found out that email spammers only need a .1 % response rate in order to make money. I have a feeling that the needed success rate may be similarly low for blog and wiki spammers. If so, and the spammers are playing a “percentages game” (which they obviously are), the nofollow thing may even increase blog and wiki spam because spammers will need to have more attempts in order to get the needed conversions.

Fake Blog altert. If you watched the SuperBowl last night, you’ll remember the lincoln fry commerical. Well, it turns out that they’ve created a fictitious blog to go along with it. It even seems like the comments on it are fake.

If you link to it, use “fake blog” as your link text, because, you know, Google cares about that sort of thing. :-)

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