Blogging
US Air Force Blog Assessment Chart
While the US Air Force prepares for infrastructural cyberwarfare with their Cyber Command, they also prepare for informational cyberwarfare with their Emerging Technology Division. That division has drafted a blog assessment chart showing when and how to comment on blog entries.
Yes, you read that right: the Air Force has drawn up rules of engagement for the blogosphere. These guys know the Internet is serious business.
I recommend this handy flowchart to anyone who’s taking a blogospheric beating. The responses it prescribes are far more rational than the excuses and insults most people spout when targeted by angry bloggers.
(Via Joey deVilla.)
Google Thinks I’m Someone Else
PR guru Steve Rubel notes that Google now includes thumbnails for WordPress blogs in search results. That’s great, except for one thing: Google thinks I’m Filipino gaming manager Carlo Ople.
I blog about the guy twice, and I become him. Talk about identity theft. Carlo’s not alone — Google also thinks a lot of people are tech blogger Allen Stern.
I blog about Filipina cosplayer Alodia Gosiengfiao a lot more than I blog about Carlo. If Google’s image matching algorithms are going to mistake me for someone else, why couldn’t Alodia appear in my search result thumbnail? No offense to Carlo, but Alodia’s a lot prettier.
