PSoTD

Brilliant! Of course I want my domain registrar to be in charge of my public relations!

I'm not sure I believe it's going to happen like this, but it does seem to me that about.com is a sand island slowly disappearing in an ocean of blogs.

I've had 4 or 5 people now email me asking whether Family Watchdog - a search engine for a national sex offender registry - is real. Of course it's real. And depending on where you live, a little bit scary. But if I've gotten that many emails, the word-of-email promotion of this site must be astounding.

Every once in a while I find active blogs that still link to my old blog address from over a year ago in their blogroll. What gives? Do they really not check out their blogroll that often? And if not, is there really a reason to have a blogroll in the first place?

Looks like they finally determined that in order to generate more paying business, they couldn't provide referral URLs for free.

It is the season... The Koufax Awards nominations are now being taken. Submit your favorites...

Is there really a reason to drive a blogmobile?

Yes.

Today, self-publishing has never been easier and prettier. The era of Web 2.0 has ushered in the slick simplicity of sites such as Wikipedia, Flickr and Blogger that allow users with no technical ability to easily carve out their online presence with dignity.

Then came MySpace.

In one fell swoop, Web design was pushed back a decade. With millions of users creating their own pages and grafting on endless doohickies, this social network has become a hotbed of garish graphics, illegible fonts, crazy colors, incessantly blinking gifs, automated musical slideshows and more --- often thrust at the viewer all at once! Deja vu?

Ugly tools are made available to ugly site builders; in fact it is a thriving industry. At blinkyou.com you can find martini glasses or pulsating hearts to rain down your profile page at different speeds. Or, how about a rotating 3-D font that shimmers and explodes? At pimpmyspace.org you can get a cursor in the guise of Tony the Tiger or Raphael, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. An animated flying demon with giant wings anyone?

Finding a pretty MySpace profile is like finding a four-leaf clover, it's hard — PC World ranked MySpace No.1 in their 25 worst Web sites list.

My biggest complaint about Technorati is that they include all these MySpace sites in their search results. The content varies in quality, but I almost always avoid the MySpace sites because the design is so unreadable.

One other thing I've noticed about MySpace users - a love for the letter Z. If I had to guess the host of any blogger that began a post with Woz Up Dogzzzzz?, MySpace would be an automatic.