• Dallas, TX (USA)
• Virginia (USA)
• London, UK

All of these location have been graciously provided by the team at e-planning.

Thanks to all of you who volunteer your machines and bandwidth for this project.

As always, we are looking for as more measurement locations. It would be great if we could get some data from the Asia-Pacific region.

Currently, the Newest Industry sits at #1,106,225 in the Technorati Charts. I’m looking to break into the Technorati 1,000,000 before Christmas.

If Chris Brogan can get into the Technorati 100, I know I can do this!

Help me break into this elite group!

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FriendFeedHolic (ffholic) has taken the base knowledge that exists in FriendFeed and added a ranking mechanism to it based on input and output. In fact, they weight the participation in the FriendFeed community more heavily than participation in other communities.

This is important. Although FriendFeedHolic is separate from FriendFeed, they have found the way to isolate and target those users who are most likely to participate and create conversations. These users, be it Scoble or Mona N, are where advertisers and marketers can target their money.

How would they do this?

Think about it. If someone that is a large commenter or conversation-creator on FriendFeed creates new content, they are assigned a higher ranking in the new conversation-driven ad-discovery model that advertisers will have to create to succeed.

This new targeted advertising logic will be forced to discover:

• The content of the conversation
• The context of the conversation
• The tone of the conversation
• The participants in the conversation

This model will be able to identify when it is an inward-facing conversation that involves mostly super-users, or if it is a conversation that engages a wide-spectrum of people.

Conversations among super-users will lead to more passive advertising being shown, as that is a spectator event, with only a few participants.

Conversations created by super-users, or that involve super-users, but have a higher participation from the general community will get more intelligent attention to ensure that the marketing messages and advertising shown fit the four criteria above.

In this new model, advertisers will have to see that they can’t simply slap a set of ads up on the popular kids web sites. They will have to understand who leads a community, who generates buzz, and who can engage the most people on a regular basis.

In this model, the leader has far less power than the community that they create. And maintain.

After my LinkedIN request last night, I got two separate rcommendations for BlueHost, both from folks I highly respect.

Let me know what you think.

Yesterday my servers experienced a 11-hour network outage due to a broken upstream BGP route.

It’s sometimes scary to see how worn the cobbler’s shoes are.

© 2006 Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir — All rights reserved.

There is something primeval and cultured that emanates from that island nation, the cultural centre of the Vikings.

Pictures make my mind snap, change my mood in an instant, draw power from inside me.

Wandering Flickr is always a wonderful way to relax.

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Used Mercedes Dealer, specializing in cars with slight electrical issues.

Here’s one of the models he has in his Kevlar and Nomex lined showroom.

Ignore the flames.

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