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Metatags, R.I.P.?
Andrew Goodman writes that metatags -- those labels hidden in Web pages' HTML that are supposed to help search engines determine what the pages are about but that have become a tool for out-of-control online marketing -- are dead.
He's probably right. As he points out, Google has managed to create the most useful search engine to date by downplaying metatags. But note that he qualifies his conclusion fairly narrowly: "Metatags as we know them today - I refer specifically to the meta keyword and meta description tags inserted into the head of an HTML document - don't factor into this future." This qualification is important, because, while HTML metatags have proved far too easy to abuse, the concept of meta-information -- information that describes what other information is about -- will only become more important as the Web continues to grow in both volume of information and complexity of available services.
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Google your own
If you want to add Google search to your Salon blog, John Robb has some code here. And Christian has some more useful info here.
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Plan B: A Blognovel, which roared through August but was silent in September, is now back (this post explains the schedule), with a post-cliff-hanger installment.
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Rayne Today on the yin and yang of zoos: "I'm continually shocked at how some exhibits (always the newest ones) are so popular and so cool, but at the same time how some of the exhibits are so pathetic and antique, unloved."
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Amusing diagram connects the dots between "ImClone, Martha Stewart, Merrill Lynch, Enron, Arthur Anderson, Global Crossing, Tyco, WorldCom, Adelphia, et. al." (Courtesy Bruce Umbaugh's A Blog Doesn't Need a Clever Name).
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Bill Spotz holds this plain-spoken hypothetical conversation with a reasonable "right winger" on the question of war on Iraq.
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Brian Dear's Nettle.com: Random Notes on Experience Design is a collection of user-oriented comments and reviews of software and services. Recent posts include commentaries on iTunes, OSX 10.2, Netflix, Salon's community The Well and other sutff.
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If you want to know what's been occupying a lot of my time for the last couple weeks, this should give you the picture.
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