Just Another Thursday Night
Sent at 8:19 PM on Thursday
me: “It’s often very hard to measure the thing that you’re hoping for. You don’t actually care about how calories you eat; you care about how much weight you’re going to gain from the calories you eat. But as soon as we go, oh, well, calories are a pretty good proxy for weight gain, we start to come up with these foods that are incredibly unhealthy but nevertheless have very few calories in them. In the same way, Google doesn’t really care about inbound links because inbound links are good per se; Google cares about inbound links because inbound links are a good proxy for “someone likes this page; someone thinks this page is a useful place to be, is a good place to be.” But as soon as Google starts counting that, people start finding ways to make links that don’t actually serve as a proxy for that conclusion at all.”
Sent at 8:25 PM on Thursday
Scott: where’s that from?
me: Cory Doctorow, in an interview w/ a Duke prof who is using his book Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom in a utopias course.
me: You should read that, btw
me: Is the baby in the dishwasher?
Scott: no.
me: Whew.
(Here’s the link to the Doctorow interview. I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom last year; blogged about it here.)
Karen Edmisten says:
I’m so glad the baby wasn’t in the dishwasher.
On May 1, 2010 at 7:43 pm
Melissa Wiley says:
You can see we were watching him very closely.
On May 1, 2010 at 7:44 pm