Fast Forward: December 14th, 2006

I’m very glad that Jason Kottke is continuing his war on multiple-page articles. I’ll pile on and say, does any advertiser really take readership numbers seriously from sites that do auto refresh (when the page forces a reload a few minutes after you load it)? Yahoo! News Most Popular, for instance, refreshes every five minutes. I remember when that started, and people said it was to make sure you always had “the freshest news”; I don’t think I need five minute updates on which articles are the most emailed right now. I’d much rather be allowed to leave that tab open while I read its articles, and not have to search around for what changed when I go back. If you think I’m seeing your ad on that page while I’m spending 10 minutes on another tab, I’m not.
Hillel Cooperman, who I’ve covered on Radar before, recently started his own software development shop, Jackson Fish Market. He’s just posted a note saying that he’s looking for people to help out. I don’t know what he’s doing, but if I were free and living in Seattle, I’d be calling him.
My friend Freeman Murray took a line from one of my posts and ran with it. I like what he wrote — this is the summary of his talk for the BarCampPune in India this weekend. Go Freeman!