Then each went to his own home

Keith Robinson has written a excellent article about hierarchical vs. hub like homepages:

What I’ve got a problem with is the idea that one way of organization is going to make everyone happy. This will never be the case, and, as with many other Web challenges a compromise will need to be reached. Unfortunately, the nature of the site map deliverable, and the process behind it, don’t really lend themselves to compromise or consensus. This creates a bloated process and quite a bit of effort that is, ultimately, wasted if it doesn’t help people find what they are looking for.

The comments are also very interesting and thought-provoking.
I so often was annoyed by hierarchical built sites where the keywords seemed to obscure to get the information I wanted. When this happens, I go first for a search and second for a sitemap.

Now we have three big web search sites:
MSN Search, Google, Yahoo, while Microsoft’s MSN Search is the latest competitor.

What is the big difference between the three search engines?
Sure, there are different page ranks, according to google-watch there is

on average only a 20 percent overlap between Yahoo’s first 100 results and Google’s first 100 results for the same search

And ok, there are different sites they are searching through.
But why is MSN doing more or less the same thing with huge efforts what google has already done? Yesterday I wanted to search all swiss companies that use/develop semantic web. I can’t search for that! (if you know a site doing that, let me know!). Now what they do is a giant race and some small search will come and eat them all. Why don’t they invent some new? Never heard of Semantic Web? Sure they have! So why are they are doing the same thing again and again? I don’t get it.

Ok, I’ve spent several hours to get MTEmbedImage (a thumbnail tool for Movabletype) working, so I thought I’ll share it with the world.

The stumbling blocks were these:

• The basename of MTEmbedImage is from the Movabletype directory, and not from the blog (like someone stated in the comments of MTEmbedImage)
• When I copy-pasted some code into the textarea of Movabletype, then it ended up utf8-encoded. I just saw this when I copy-pasted it into my editor to write an email concerning this plugin that didn’t work..

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