by Whitney | Feb 2, 2011 | business, community, economics
The most entertaining item to geeks in this morning’s news has to be Google’s accusation that Microsoft’s Bing search engine competitor is hijacking Google search results. (The BBC has a good article about it here). Explaining how search works to...
by Whitney | Sep 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
This morning, I was getting caught up in news, and this article about the closing of a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan grabbed my attention. It’s clear that Barnes and Noble has been acting more like a community center for the neighborhood than just a store. ...
by Whitney | Oct 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
One of the best things we ever did at Podcamp Philly was to team up with Li Evans and SearchCamp. The Searchcamp topics cover everything about search engines, optimization, marketing, and more. For anyone producing any content online, I am convinced you need to have...
by Whitney | Jun 15, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ve started an interesting book called Kluge- The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus. In the opening chapter, Marcus talks about how biological systems evolve with a “good enough” threshold, not always with the most elegant...