Upside down, uhh, dogs?

So, uhhh, some of you may have seen BonsaiKitten back in the day.
http://www.shorty.com/bonsaikitten/index.html

It's a brilliant parody, but generated so much hate mail it's not even funny. For a full report, check this.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Bonsai_Kitten/

So controversial is the site that the museumofhoaxes site has received death threats for even hosting that page. People are crazy.

Anyway, I was just sent Upside Down Dogs and when the laughing had stopped, it really sparked some memories.

Free linkings

Matt's beaten me to it. I was halfway through posting something on this, but he's done a much better job than I could have.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/

COnferences

This is the crazy shit I get up to.

FOWA

Well, last week was pretty mad.

I got the chance to meet the V&A staff, and help them plan their new website. They had a lot of very smart people in the room, and it was a real pleasure to be invited to be part of it. I look forward to working with them over the next few months. Their vision is bold, but they realise, as a leading design museum, they need to be leading the way.

I also got to attend FOWA, where I saw diggnation, which was pretty funny. It's Episode 172, which at time of writing isn't aired yet.

The sessions were also pretty informative, but with a general leaning towards American presenters, which was a little disappointing. I presented a couple of sessions, though, which seemed well-received - at least, the t-shirts were taken pretty quickly.

Well, lots of work to do this week, so I'll write more tomorrow.

Andrew Turner is talking on 'beyond Google Maps' at FOWA. 

It's possible that the guy talks even more quickly than me.

Anyway, he raises some interesting points about Google Maps, but sells it somewhat short.

There are many features which actually do give information about something you're looking at (streetview, for example).

There's also a my location feature in Gears, which wasn't mentioned - a big shame.

Oh well, still very interesting.  

FOWA

At Fowa. Should have known better than to expect good internets. More later.

BrowserRank from Microsoft

Well, this is pretty interesting.

http://onlineever.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/microsoft-browserrank-versus-google-pagerank/

It seems they want to include 'time spent on page' as one of the signals, or rather, the main signal. That's good, but I can't help worry that it's self-fulfilling - that is, those pages near the top will naturally have the most time spent on them, since people tend to click near the top first. Therefore, bad results may find it hard to slip down the rankings.

But Microsoft have some smart people, so we'll see.