Just a few unevaluated thoughts for the day. We are hearing a lot lately about massive corporations and their various manouevres on the net, encroachment into each others traditional territory. Google going into software, Microsoft going into search.

*****I break into philosophical rambling here please click your back button if you usually can’t stomach this sort of thing- you have been warned*****

Recent patents filed by Google indicate a possibility that it will be providing subsidised hosting with an advertising monetization model. This is close but not right on the money to Googles monetization model. But it’s core service is search.

A delicate balance is trodden all the time by Google as they deliver their core service and attempt to monetize.

The unwritten laws:

It is my belief that within the community known as the internet there are unwritten laws - energies if you will that give the internet it’s vibrancy and substance. These must be held sacrosanct for the whole structure to maintain itself. A fundamental law which seems to be in operation is the freedom to communicate and the freedom to not communicate at will. Where this
is trounced upon the structure begins to break down.

There are many roads that the internet could go down but we should all insist on our right to communicate or not communicate at will. In this simple way we will avoid being corralled into another boring slavery.

It is an individuals job to maintain enough knowledge about what is going on so that he or she can
vote with their mouse.

Have a great day.

Gerard Ly aka Magic has made a nice little mailing list plugin for wordpress which I have just installed here.

It has it’s own admin interface which allows you to manage several categories, add and remove members and accept automatic signups from your wordpress blog.

I am going to be running it here and will be having a little exclusive newsletter which will notify you of new posts, but also have some special stuff that does not get published on the blog.

You will be able subscribe to it shortly. I want to acknowledge Gerard for his great Mailing list plugin.

Are you looking for Jimtool.com/keyword which is Jim Wilson’s keyword generation tool. Well as far as I can tell it is missing from the page. Sadly it seems Jim has passed on and the new owners have not placed the tool on their web site.

Jim’s Keyword generation tool looked to be a handy little tool to generate a list of thousands of keywords for the purpose of web site optimisation. I was looking forward to using it and trialling it.

There are still dozens of web sites linking to Jims Tool and they really should update their pages so that they are not out of date.

I will endeavour to find another keyword generation tool to review. I’m testing something out at the moment but I’ll let you know when I’ve finished.