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Craig Newmark / Edgeio

February 20th, 2006 ·

Craig Newmark from craigslist brings up some good points about the soon-to-be-launched Edgeio service in the comments section of this post on BuzzMachine. It will be interesting to see how Edgeio deals with these issues.

Mr. Newmark’s comments:

“…I act as full time customer service rep, there’s a few of us, only a few, because with flagging, our community removes most questionable ads.

Using the tagging approach, how are bogus ads removed? Considering that spam blogs are already a huge problem, and how easy it’ll be to falsely tag viagra ads, the volume of bad ads will be tremendous.

That will also be true of blogs that do things like tagging photos that you’d prefer not to see, but they’d be in search results anyway. (You really don’t want to know.)

Also, how will ads be removed (by the poster) or expired?

When there’re other problems, like defamation, how are they handled?

I’m guessing that many customer service reps will be needed, good jobs, but then,
you risk being a “publisher” which means that you have to monitor ads.”

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Tour of California Cycling

February 19th, 2006 ·

I went down to Coit Tower this morning to check out the Tour of California bike race. This is an eight-day, 600 mile, multi-stage race. Today was the individual time trial. More photos here. SFist has a good re-cap of the race and make sure to check out the photos by flickr users bigempty and whileseated.

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Snow in the Bay Area

February 18th, 2006 ·

There was a rare snowfall in the Bay Area above 2,000 ft. More photos here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Silicon Valley Gets a Taste of Snow

Photo by flickr user zkhowes

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Pitchers and catchers report to camp

February 15th, 2006 ·

Six magic words: Pitchers and catchers report to camp.

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Beautiful day in San Francisco

February 11th, 2006 ·

Today, near Sutro Baths / Cliff House.

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Cliff House - Then and Now

February 11th, 2006 ·

My first submission to the Great Postcard Hunt group on Flickr.

Cliff House

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Coldplay vs Kraftwerk - Computer Talk

February 9th, 2006 ·

Yes, this has been out for a while and yes, mash-up’s jumped the shark a while ago, but I’m still enjoying this this one.

Coldplay vs Kraftwerk - Computer Talk (MP3) by Party Ben (temporary link!)

3/16/06 Update:

Re-posting this one.

3/18/2006 Update:

Here’s a real guilty pleasure: the Junkie XL Remix of Coldplay’s Talk.  Really liking this one.

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Talk (Junkie XL Remix) MP3
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Flickr: The Great Postcard Hunt

February 7th, 2006 ·


Flickr user
yorkie has started a new Flickr group called The Great Postcard Hunt.  Go here to find a challenge postcard (currently the pool includes postcards from Sacramento and San Francisco).  Find the postcard location, take a photo of the current location, merge it with the postcard image, and post it to the pool. Click here for the GPH blog.

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View from Grand View Park

February 7th, 2006 ·

A couple of weeks ago at Grand View Park (Golden Gate Heights neighborhood) looking towards Sutro Tower. More Hills of San Francisco here.

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Montana a no-show at Super Bowl MVP Spotlight

February 6th, 2006 ·

Three-time Super Bowl MVP Joe Montana was one of just a few no-show’s at the Super Bowl MVP spotlight that was held before Super Bowl XL. According to this report in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joe was holding out for $100K. Bad move Joe. You just lost well over $100K in future endorsements if this is true.

2/7/2005 Update:

Joe Montana maintains that he missed the MVP event due to family obligations. More here.

2/9/2005 Update:

This didn’t occur to me: Tim Kawakami at Bay Area Sports thinks Joe’s no-show has something to do with Joe’s long standing rivalry with Steve Young. This story seems to be picking up steam as the week goes on. More discussion about Joe over at SFist.

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