What is the current size of the Web? At the time of this writing, Google claims to index more than 8 billion pages, MSN Beta claims about 5 billion pages, Yahoo! at least 4 billion and Ask/Teoma more than 2 billion The 'visible' or 'indexable' Web is more than 11.5 billion pages
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Stuff That Matters: We want to burn witches
Starbucks Real Estate Learnings:
Like McDonald’s, Starbucks is a concept driven as much by real estate as it is by coffee and the coffee experience. These days Starbucks opens at least three new locations a day somewhere in the world. It has taken a lot of real estate to open up 9,000+ Starbucks locations and it will take even more real estate to reach their stated goal of 30,000 global locations.
• Tom Peters, comes a very promising new blog, TPWireservice [ Blog as if your life depended on it (for the next three months, anyway) ; Book by Bill ]
• · Renee Blodgett pointed us to an interesting conference coming up, BlogHer. Shameless Plug: Get Your BlogHer Gear Right Here!; via Bill Ives ; Jeff Jarvis' New Life: I just quit my job at Advance.net to do lots of new things -- a damned career smorgasbord all related to changing news and to citizens' media
• · · Hugh Martin - The Albrechtsen/MediaWatch/blogger stoush continues in the Oz's Media section today. As David Salter points out, it's all very petty. Media Watch versus The Oz: Media Watch has attacked Janet Albrechtsen for supposedly inflating the "journalistic credibility'' of Arthur Chrenkoff's round-up of good news from Iraq. Part Four: Fairfax corporate interests ; Part Three: Marr's Grand Prix crash
• · · · David Starkoff’s blog Barrack Room Gossip ; Part One: Janet Albrechtsen's Good ; Part Two: The Hookes' bouncer error
• · · · · In Commentariat Site for would be bloggers?; Here's a cool remix of the news, in a new service called Buzztracker. Using Google, the site gives a visual representation of news on the net Buzz tracking, globally
• · · · · From the ASIO archives. I smell a rat . . . I really can't believe that ASIO thought these things about Paddy McGuinness. Watch it ; I'm not a pundit. I'm not an authority on the Mideast, Congress, or taxation. I'm not a crusader or an apologist. Keillor says his feature will instead be "an odd amalgam" of the sensibility of local columnists and national columnists as he discusses the big-picture meaning of small current events. I can't begin a day without a newspaper in my hand
• · · · · · Gannon's story left critics tarnished, too Blame bloggers?: All news now requires quotation marks; We really used a two-pronged strategy -- one, try to get ahead of the daily developments, particularly the investigations of the newspaper by various federal government agencies. There also are a series of lawsuits. And then the second approach was to dig into -- what happened here? How Newsday reporters covered their paper's circ scandal ; Jim Schutze is a reporter for the Dallas Observer, where the local daily is caught up in a circulation scandal of its own