links for 2008-01-19

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“The reality is, moral failure usually has nothing to do with our inability to get a project off the ground. But because we’ve learned to see inability in moral terms, we rarely look clearly at what exactly we need to do to fix the things holding us bac

“YouTube is not a conversation,” explained LeMeur. “As one Seesmic-er said to me, ‘YouTube is about the videos, Seesmic is about the people in the videos’.”

“While Senator Obama’s candidacy for president of the United States offers hope, let us not forget a facet of society that has had little hope for change the last 20 years.”

“The bottom line is that Cruise and the church seem to be suffering from something known as ‘The Streisand Effect.’”

Search rivals hierarchical website navigation on many sites and is the primary means of navigation on enormous sites such as Ebay and Amazon. Advanced search, however, has not fared so well, with only a small percentage of users using it.

“Ours is an outsider arena–not mainstream enough for the purely kidlit crowd, not adult enough for the F&SF purists.”