Friday, July 28, 2006

Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Robotics...

I've been putting in a lot of background material circling around the central topic of determinism and free will. Stuff like Evan Harris Walker and G. I. Gurdjieff and automatic people and quantum mechanics and classical mechanics.

To think I started to do this stuff about ten years ago and kept getting driven off course by rabid money-addicts! Ouch! Fact is the idea was sound, as Wikipedia has proven. Its just that the money-addicts around didn't want me to build a Wikipedia for some reason. Oh well, their loss. If they'd helped me out or at least not been such a hindrance we could've been where Wikipedia is. Oh well.

-MarkM- Proprietor, Digitalis Data Services (over 25 years in business!)

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Sheet Harbour Nova Scotia

I finally got around to starting a section about Sheet Harbour Nova Scotia, which is where my country-house is.

Yeah yeah, this should have been done years ago, like when I first bought the house, but the pressures brought to bear upon me over the years each time I tried to actually develop web-content were mindblowing. Starting way back when I first started building an Internet Service Provider.

Hopefully I will be weaving it together with the home, kitchen and garden sections as well as the cooking and gardening sections as soon as I manage to get out to the house to putter about out there. Or maybe sooner if I just go ahead and wail about all the activities that I am missing out on due to not managing to get out to the country-house the last few years. (I hear it has been broken into and is being used as a hangout by local drunks, or somesuch...)

-MarkM- Proprietor, Digitalis Data Services (25+ years in business!)

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Home, Kitchen and Garden

Today I have been doing more background work for the CookingWeb and GardenWeb teams; mostly setting up a section about home and within that sections for kitchen and garden.

In the course of doing that I also did some touching-up in the activities section, mostly in the cooking and gardening sections.

-MarkM- Proprietor, Digitalis Data Services (More than 25 years in business!)

Monday, July 17, 2006

Recreation, Travel and Vacation Activities

Looks like today is the day to get some work done on the recreation, travel and vacation subsections of the activity directory.

This is of course partly to provide some content areas relating to the TravelWeb team but also of course we will be using it in the process of looking for Leading Guides in these subject-areas (also known as niches, especially within the internet marketing community).

-MarkM- Proprietor, Digitalis Data Services.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Leading Guides Project Blog Updated

It has been another busy day for me. A lot of what I've been up to is logged on the Leading Guides blog, being as how much of it was related to the Leading Guides project.

I have also started a revamp of the Make Money project. When if began it was basically about automating the process of making money. But two things happened that caused the scope to be expanded. One was the urgency that many people have when they search for material about making money. A huge number of our visitors were not really interested in the automation project, they just wanted to make some money as soon as possible and as fast as possible and of course to make as much money as possible.

Thus the whole universe of get rich quick schemes came into view. Wow! Amazing what is out there. Making money is a very popular topic. Because of our homeschool site we also have a lot of contacts and visitors who are interested specifically in making money at home; running a home business of some kind or another.

Thus as soon as we seriously looked into (and document on the web) the whole concept of moneymaking we found it necessary to provide help for people who wanted to go ahead and make money manually instead of helping to work on the automation project or just sitting around waiting for the automatic making of money to be perfected for them.

It also seems possible that in a somewhat fundamental way - maybe the bottom line - the concept of money involves the concept of human effort or human energy or some kind of human involvement, and that human aspect might somewhat 'put a spanner in the works', so to speak, of the idea of ever totally automating the making of money.

-MarkM- Proprietor, Digitalis Data Services (25+ Years In Business! ;))

Friday, July 14, 2006

Recent Changes

A nice feature built into the Wiki system is the tracking of recent changes. Kind of convenient eh?

Today someone brought SunRoot Farm and Eco-Solidarity Association to my attention. Check it out, there are a lot of topics mentioned that need expanding... if you are into cooking or gardening, get in there and do some WikiWeaving. In case you had not noticed, Wikipedia has lots and lots of high rankings in the major search-engines. The Internet Marketing folk have certainly noticed, so get involved; you surely must know they are going to building their own Wiki into a massive backbone. Right now is your early-bird chance to get in there and make sure those folk know about your special topics and niches and keywords and so on.

Here's the list of recent changes again, look it over, it might trigger some ideas for you.

-MarkM-

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Actual, Imaginary and Virtual Things

Digitalis Data Services has finally gotten around to having me divvy up the things section of the Graphic Omniscient Device into actual things, imaginary things and virtual things.

Heh well although I said "finally", really the delay was mostly a matter of watching how the places section had worked out, being as how it had already, since the start, been divided into actual places, imaginary places and virtual places.

Oops, almost forgot to mention that I also received an email out of the blue from Turkey and took that as a fine excuse to whip up a Turkey section, in which I have pasted the email that triggered me to create that section.

Now of course I will be on the lookout for more resources about Turkey. ;)

-MarkM-

Friday, July 07, 2006

Issues

Issues: the plural of Issue. Nuff said?

-MarkM-

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Hey, no open in new window?!?!

Hey, cool, I did not know this before. I tried to make the links to All Hallows Blood Bank and Magickal Mystery Tour in the previous post open in a new window; blogger seems to suppress that. Cool! No wonder blogger is considered a Classy Place! ;) :)

-MarkM-

Did a lot of cleanup all over the place...

...Including Websites Knotwork's little Niche of Niches experiment.

Yes, it is a "scraper site". It is just a small one, and it gives me a timeslice of what was going on in various keywords at the time of the scraping. I prefer that because I can take as long as I like to thoroughly appreciate the timeslice.

The links were scraped from Yahoo Search, and so far I am surprised at the quality of them really. Yes I see some repeats that might be caused by the use of heavy-handed "SEO" practices but really not too bad. Not like the bad old days, when they were spewing off-topic stuff everywhere. This 'targetted spam' kind of stuff at least looks from the anchor-text and descriptions as if it might be OK stuff. Maybe it is just the SEO-spammed stuff that clawed its way to the top though. It is going to be interesting to see as I delve further into it to find out what is out there. While re-writing the blurbs too I expect, although supposedly part of why scraping was so popular was that it actually concentrates the keywords or something. When I checked out Traffic Hurricane I was amazed at how MSN and Yahoo used to love that stuff. I guess Google must've loved it for a while too as fortunes were made with it.

I have also defined a NON_CONTENT_PAGE macro and have been putting it into my "menu" or "stub" pages as I go along. All it does it turn off AdSense, but as a result the default Pagan banners are now on all the NON_CONTENT_PAGE pages. Oops, I think maybe some Internet Marketing folk might prefer seeing AdSense ads to seeing weirdo Potteresque stuff. ;) :)

Been up for days, ought to try to sleep I suppose... but wait, what the heck is sleep? :)

-MarkM-

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Internet Marketing Wiki

Internet Marketing is moving into the Wikisphere!

-Knotwork aka MarkM-