Posts Tagged ‘Google’
10 facts: Blogging is more of a part of your life than you might think
July 16th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
10 years ago, most people on the internet did n ot know what a “blog” was — and some still don’t. If you are reading this on joshlovesjen.com, then you are reading a blog — da-da-dum!…
Technorati.com is the leading source, next to Google in my opinion, for indexing blogs and blogs posts around the web. In their own words, “The leading blog search engine, Technorati.com indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds. The site has become the definitive source for the top stories, opinions, photos and videos emerging across news, entertainment, technology, lifestyle, sports, politics and business. Technorati.com tracks not only the authority and influence of blogs, but also the most comprehensive and current index of who and what is most popular in the Blogosphere.”
Taken from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009, here are 10 facts that you might not have known about the online culture of blogging:
- 77% of Internet users read blogs.
- There are currently 133 million blogs listed on leading blog directory Technorati.
- 60% of bloggers are between the ages 18-44.
- One in five bloggers update their blogs daily.
- Not so surprising to me: Two thirds of bloggers are male.
- Corporate blogging accounts for 14% of blogs.
- 15% of bloggers spend 10 hours a week blogging.
- More than half of all bloggers are married and/or parents.
- More than 50% of bloggers have more than one blog.
- Bloggers use an average of five different social sites to drive traffic to their blog.
For more interesting ideas about the web and where things are going, see this web/technology clog that I just found: http://thefuturebuzz.com/.
Great Nerd Imagery: Infographic on ‘How Google Works’
July 4th, 2010
Posted in Pictures
have you ever wondered just how Google works? … Well, how it REALLY works (as far as the search engine algorithm, is actually googly top-secret), but how you get and use what you get and use from Google is stupendously laid out in the infographic below.
(I am thinking of using it as teaching tool for when I have to “explain” to people why their blog is not magically at the top of Google right away as soon as they hit publish to the web…. I could (and might) write a blog post about the mild annoyance o-mine!)
Click on the How Google Works Infogrpahic below for the full version.
This great image was taken from PPCBlog.com.
Woman Sues Google After She Follows Google Maps Directions And Gets Hit By A Car
June 16th, 2010
Posted in General Blog, Pictures
No doubt that you’ve heard of this, but I thought that I would like to document that greatness of google maps, but the stupidity of people who have no sense of personal-responsibility or sense of logic.
(Some text taken from Techdirt.com)
There have been plenty of stories over the years of drivers blindly following their GPS over a cliff or onto railroad tracks. After doing such things, it may be natural for the driver to blame the technology, though it’s unlikely to help you out much in court. However, it appears that one pedestrian has taken things a step further. After using Google’s “still in beta” (for a good reason) “walking directions” while trying to get somewhere in Park City, Utah, she found herself on a highway, where she was hit by a car. So, in response, she’s suing both Google and the driver of the car. Danny Sullivan explores the issue in much greater detail at that link, and comes to the same conclusion I assume many of you already jumped to: at some point, you just have to assume some sense of responsibility if you’re the pedestrian. Sullivan pops out the following two Street View images showing the road in question, and wonders why the woman didn’t realize that this road was not designed to be crossed. The first photo is of the intersection she would come to before crossing (note: no crosswalk).
My thought is that the person that she is suing should counter sue her for negligent stupidity for WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD! C’mon… have some sense lady. — and who is not to know if she jsut didn’t want to get hit so that she could get some recognition or sue for money?
Insert Coin! Keep playing Google Pac-Man here
May 24th, 2010
Posted in General Blog
In case you missed it, over the weekend, Google celebrated the 30th anniversary of Pac Man by letting you play the classic favorite, embedded inside the Google logo.
Well, did you know that you can continue to play the ’80′s favorite arcade classic still on google? Keep playing at http://www.google.com/pacman/ — just hit “Insert Coin” at the bottom right where the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button usually is…. and for the geeks in the room, this is NOT flash based, but I hear it is all HTML and CSS. Crazy huh?
Do you enjoy playing Pac Man growing up?
I think that the classic Pac Man was the best, but then there were cartoons, 3D Pac Man games and even lunch boxes in the ’80′s.
Tech and April fool’s seem to go together, even with GroupOn.com – groupoupon.com
April 1st, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Groupon.com, which is a great website that give short deal on coupons, largely based is larger metro areas like Dallas, Los Angeles, and Hattiesburg, MS… (Okay, so not the somewhat smaller city of Hattiesburg, but I thought it was funny).
For April Fool this year, all people are doing funny April Fool’s joke, like Google “changing it’s name to Topeka,” and youtube.com turning videos in ASCII text (which is pretty ingenious, I think),…
And even GroupOn.com built a small microsite to allow people to buy “elite” items like metal shirt’s with only sleeves and no shirt (pictured to the right) for $6100, faceless watches for $14,500, or Royal crowns for $68,099. this may sound silly, but the site sells it much better than I can explain it.
See the site Groupöupon at http://www.groupoupon.com/.
Even once you click to try and buy some of these ridiculous items, you are prompted to be scanned for coolness to make sure that you are even cool enough to even buy such items. The text reads: “Please align your eye with the retinal scanner below so we can check your identity against our online database of confidential tax records and confirm your worthiness as a potential member of Groupöupon.” — Funny stuff.
For other great listings of April Fool’s jokes from the tech world for 2010, see Mashable’s best of April Fool’s post.
Google now named Topeka, my son now to be named Google
April 1st, 2010
Posted in General Blog
Google’s new name, as of today, April 1st, is now Topeka.
Chosen on this memorial day of *ahem* April Fools, Google has chosen to honor the city of Topeka, Kansas; since this city recently chose to change it’s name to Google, they had to think how to honor that, and they chose to officially change it’s name to Topeka.
Thank you Google for honor the great city of Topeka. Since I honor the company’s commemoration, (and my ego tells me that I want some attention myself), instead of naming my new son Joshua Zavier Armstrong in the next coming months, I wish to honor you by naming him Google Armstrong. My love and adoration go out the company and I wish to further brand the greatness of this company with naming my first born son after this awesome company.
Rock on, Google. Rock on. — And by this I mean the company, not my son. (Sorry, son. I will celebrate you soon enough when you come in May. This is Google’s time to shine for the time being. 
See the referring April 1st blog entry at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html