---
title: "Read/Write Filter"
date: 2006-01-17
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Read/Write Filter

A daily review of Web and Media news that crosses my path during the day.

![disco](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648im_/http://static.flickr.com/20/73301391_b45a3dd58b_m.jpg)– [comScore](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=694): Google Continues to Hold Top Position in Search Share Rankings (see also [ Shore analysis](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2006_01_01_m_archive.html#113701837962487700): “It also means that general aggregators will continue to position their search services increasingly for specific verticals”)

– Josh Porter has [a number 1 hit on Squidoo](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.squidoo.com/browse/top_lenses), with his catchy tune called [Introduction to Web 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.squidoo.com/introtoweb20/) (I hear [the disco version](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://blog.simplyhired.com/archives/2006/01/top_10_reasons_1.php) is awesome)

– [Blog Herald being auctioned off](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.ensight.org/archives/2006/01/16/the-mystery-blog/): High bid stands at $72,000 (Blog Herald is a blog about blogging and is affiliated with the B5media network. Current owner Duncan Riley [ outlines his reasons](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.blogherald.com/2006/01/16/twas-the-blog-herald-thats-been-on-the-market/) for selling)

– [Burnham’s Beat Reports Record Q4 Revenues](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2006/01/burnhams_beat_r.html) (nevertheless, I’ve downgraded my Burnham’s Beat rating to AAA-)

– [TechCrunch](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/16/yahoo-acquires-searchfox-assets/): Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets (as Mike said, unclear if Yahoo bought it before or after the recently announced SearchFox closure)

– [ Digg gets a WSJ write-up](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113700912120443995.html?mod=todays_free_feature) (Slashdot’s Rob Malda “said he considered a Digg-like format for Slashdot, but rejected the idea because he believes much of Slashdot’s value lies in its editors’ news judgment.”)

– [The Prejudice Map of the World](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://blog.outer-court.com/prejudice/) (New Zealand is not on the map, but I’ll tell you here what [ Google delivers for kiwis](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22kiwis+are+known+for+*%22&btnG=Search): ingenuity, good-natured bluster, tinkering)

– [Managing Hotmail](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=353) (“Hotmail relies on more than 10,000 servers spread around the globe to process billions of e-mail transactions per day.” Link [via Jeff Clavier](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://blog.softtechvc.com/2006/01/on_managing_hot.html), who nicely summarizes it)

– [Web 2.0 Show interviews Jason Fried](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.web20show.com/articles/2006/01/16/web-2-0-show-episode-9-jason-fried) from 37Signals. (“I encourage everybody to build things.”)

– [anne 2.0](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.annezelenka.com/2006/01/where-are-women.html): Where are the Women? (“At what point will men stop asking “where are the women in the blogosphere?” We are everywhere: writing about politics, about tech, about feminism, about new media, about motherhood, about economics, about academics, about everything that men blog about.”)

Disco pic [by Éole](https://web.archive.org/web/20110813012648/http://www.flickr.com/photos/eole/73301391/)

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwrite_filte_1.php))*