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How Does Your Web Site Rank and What Can You Do About It?. You may want to share this web page with your business development people. It provides a quick way to see how your organization's web site ranks in the major search engines for particular keywords. All you do is type in the keywords… Continue reading How Does Your Web Site Rank and What Can You Do About It?

The Long Emergency. By tim Hot on the heels of last night's Jared Diamond talk, a link to this Rolling Stone article by James Howard Kunstler showed up on Dave Farber's IP list. Entitled The Long Emergency, it makes the argument that world oil production is very close to peaking, and what the consequences of… Continue reading The Long Emergency

Atom's debut. Tim Bray reports that Atom 1.0 is essentially done, pending some minor dotting of i's and crossing of t's, and points to this comparison between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0. The document does a fair job of highlighting the differences. … [Jon's Radio]

Backpack Dashboard Widget for OS X 10.4 Tiger. Use Backpack? Got a Mac? Got OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? Then you should check out this Backpack Dashboard Widget by Chipt Productions. Thanks guys! [Signal vs. Noise]

Mary Jo interviews father of C#. Mary Jo Foley has an interview with Anders Hejlsberg, the guy behind Borland's Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and now Microsoft's C# language.  [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Young Fans of Wizard Still Under His Spell. At last, after months of military-level security and a public relations blitz that would put P. T. Barnum to shame, Harry Potter is back. By EDWARD WYATT. [NYT > Home Page]

Doc Searls has a roundup of what happened to all the cool airlines. “You know what USAIR stands for? Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality.” [Scripting News]

Microsoft releases shareware starter kit. Jeff Sandquist points out that Microsoft has now released the Shareware Starter Kit. The starter kit uses the .Net Framework 2.0 and downloads are available for C#, VB, and C++. From Dan Fernandez: The Shareware Starter Kit is a sample application of the common features in all shareware applications. You… Continue reading Microsoft releases shareware starter kit

I had a great time over the weekend visiting family and attending the 79th annual Edwards family reunion.

GTD: A New Cult for the Info Age. The manual Getting Things Done, which preaches tips for time management, has inspired a cult-like following online. Enthusiasts share tips and tools for doing more work, reducings stress and keeping inboxes clean. By Robert Andrews. [Wired News]