We are expecting our 2nd child by September 2008 and we are still considering JB or BJ initialed name. Any suggestion?

I’m not sure about using Wikipedia in research though. I have personally never seen a Wikipedia reference in any research paper. That does not mean that I am against using it, but for scientific topics, Wikipedia usually lists the reference where the information is obtained from, and that is what should be cited in research papers.

About the page rank, I agree that the idea behind pagerank is that it assigns scores to pages only based on incoming and outgoing links. However, this is the basic idea that is well known everywhere. However, the actual pagerank algorithm that Google uses is not published anywhere, and therefore, it can contain any special cases that Google wants. Actually, there are already well-known special cases. For example, Google detects where a query originated from, and tries to put the results that come from the same region on or near the top of the list. So there is nothing to prevent them from putting results from knol on the top of the list as well.

There is also a potential money issue here. I suppose the knol will also have the text ads that Google usually puts in some of their applications. Therefore, generating traffic to knol will bring them money, and to generate traffic, the best way is to put the results on the top of the list (and reclaim some of the traffic that currently goes to Wikipedia). What do you think?

I can imagine that the key difference between knol and wikipedia will be in the authoritative content. Anyone can add anything to wikipedia without knowing who is editing?! However, in knol they claim author will be known and listed with his/her knols. I guess this is really great and will give it confidence. Once, I heard that some universities doesn’t accept references from wikipedia in their researches!! (Is that true?)

But for page ranks, does Google raise the rank of any of its pages because it’s just Google’s page? I don’t think so.. However, there are guidelines for raising the rank of your website in Google searches, but the algorithm is independent and handles all pages the same way.

Here are some links (I didn’t read them all)…
http://www.google.com/technology/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=34432

Sorry for too long comment It’s a great post Eng. Amr

I can remember the first time I’ve logged in to windows live, and how it’s different now!! It’s really better.

But I still prefer to use Gmail for it’s simplicity and high usability.. Also there are awesome features, like grouping related mails in one conversation (The greatest thing about Gmail)… Also, the labels.. It’s better than folders in other mail systems.

1. akismet - spam filtering made easier.
2. community spirit fostered through blog surfer and tag surfer.
3. ability to make pages.

of course, blogger has its advantages too:

1. can use adsense, payperpost and the likes.
2. css editing is free.
3. javascript, flash etc can be used.

there are plenty more pros and cons using blogger or wordpress.com, which you can search by visiting the wordpress.com forums.

In my personal opinion, I disagree with talking about yourself in the beginning. The first reason: in most cases, presentation have a limited time, and I think it’s better to use that time to convey your idea to the audience instead of talking about yourself and your dreams. Second reason: It’s possible that some of your audience might be interested to know more about you, but certainly not all of them, and therefore they might find it boring to listen to all this information. This can make them lose interest quickly.

Instead of talking about yourself and your dreams, it might be a good idea to start with an interesting example that demonstrates why this project is important. It is better to do it in a way that makes the audience reach that conclusion themselves rather than feed it to them.

I hope this helps.

Actually what I did was I found a really difficult topic to work on and since it was so impossible, I looked for alternatives.

Anyway, in the end, I have one main topic and one alternative. Time span for such ideas? 2 months.

I am not against the platform, but perhaps it would be to consider limiting access to it, not opening it to everyone who can (or can’t) write a decent application.

Even then, this still does not solve the clutter issue.

thanks

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