Madcrazy stats January 30, 2007

LH for January is hovering around the 10 million mark (these are publicly available stats, so I’m not violating anything here). To say that I’m a wee bit excited about participating in this in some way is an understatement.

Writing a book kind of sucks, sometimes. January 25, 2007

I’ve got three chapters due tomorrow, and while they are 89% done, there’s that nagging 11% that’s not that is killing me.

Plus, I’m listening to some classical music station on iTunes and for some reason it keeps cutting out every 20 seconds or so, no matter which station I turn it to. So it’s work…..what’s going on with the music oh, ok, work…..what the HELL is going on with the music oh ok it’s back….work…let’s check Bloglines.

See? Not good.

However, I am kicking all sorts of bookery ass right now, although it’s difficult, to say the least, to smoosh all of the Google stuff into one measly chapter. I mean, COME ON. That chapter was a bit David Copperfield.

Hmmm..what else can I write about to distract me from the 11% that needs to be done?

Oh! Husband stayed home from work today and took me out to lunch, very nice. Only about 60 more days (crossing fingers and toes here) until he’s home, working from home, with me. All day! We’re one of those weird married couples that actually enjoy being around each other, so I can’t wait.

All right. Enough procrastinating…back to work.

I’ve just been quoted in WebProNews for the “next Google killer” January 2, 2007

Well, kind of - at least they linked to me and quoted me:

Anyway, personally (putting on my smart hat here - hopefully it’s on right), I think that the next real challenge to Google is one of two things:

• Social sites. Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, you get lots and lots of lovely backlinks, and you are on the inside track; i.e., you are now part of the Cool Kids Club.
• Itself. There’s such a thing as too many irons in the fire. There really, really is a tipping point. And if Google keeps going the way it has it either will A)do a lot of good stuff but all kinda halfass B)become the next Yahoo, with Tons Of Stuff Nobody Uses.

Awesome. I’m feeling quite popular today, all together.