So the electricity went out in Brier Creek the other night while I was in Barnes and Noble waiting to get my hair cut (I wasn’t actually getting my hair cut IN Barnes & Noble … I was WAITING in B&N).
After a lovely haircut and massage experience at Blo (if you go, see Jenny and tell her I sent you) I went back to B&N to get a gift for my nephew and, while the lights had come back up, the computers were down for the night. No big deal, they rolled with the punch and broke out the old carbon copy receipts to hand write all the transactions.

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I’m not from Raleigh. I moved here in March 2006 from Miami, FL. Before that it was San Francisco, before that San Juan, Puerto Rico and before that Boston, MA. Why should anyone care? Beats me. I just like mentioning it.

I DO think that being an outsider provides you with a fresh view of the surroundings and allows you to see things how they really are. Example: when I moved to Miami from San Francisco I was frankly disappointed at the amount of litter on the otherwise lovely South Beach. When I brought this up to friends of mine who had lived in Miami for years, they couldn’t understand what I was talking about … they saw past it. Maybe the exposure to the sun had burned out a the part of their retina that allows you to see trash on the ground, but I always thought it was interesting to see how people adapt to their environments.

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Here is an interesting Interview with Donna Tocci, the Manager of Public Relations for Kryponite during the Bic lock picking incident. Dave Taylor doesn’t throw her any hard balls and they may have been aware that the info on their locks was online – but their response certainly was not strong enough – regardless of whether blogs broke the story.

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There are three major search engines that use three distinct algorithms to provide searchers with the most relevant results available. MSN, Yahoo, and Google each place different values on factors in determining the relevance of a site and its keywords. The following is a brief list of the most important factors that each search engine takes into consideration when determining rankings.

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Google Trends is a new product from Google Labs that can be a very helpful tool for marketing departments and internet entrepreneurs alike. The tool allows you to enter any search term and it returns search statistics over time for that term. Much like technorati will return statistics for what individuals are blogging about, Google Trends allows you to harness the collective trends for Google’s millions of users.

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