Blackhacker

Freedbacking is a term coined by Chris Pirillo. Short for Free Feedback the idea is that bloggers blog about products and services they are using and tag them ‘freedbacking’. By simply scouring the internet for these tags developers and service providers can find valuable information about problems and suggestions to improve products that are used and loved all over the Internet. The desired affect is that users are brought closer to the those that bring them there products.

This is something I support. I think the developer user interaction is a key element of the Open Source movement that made the blogosphere, Web 2.0 and all of the later innovations that we see and enjoy in the post bubble era, possible. In the early days, OSS was developed for other developers. Feedback and support was carried through email lists, Usenet groups, and IRC chats. While all for those mediums still exists they have been eclipsed by blogs, wikis, and other forms of social networks, as forms of mass media.

I will lend my iron to the crucible that is freedbacking, adding a new category, and soon publish my freedbacking first post.

Google has rolled out a Webmaster Central site. A webmaster with a Google account to see some basic search related statistics and diagnostics as well as a single location to find links to services and blogs that would be useful to site owners.

I think it is a good thing. As much as I love Google they seem to have some arrogance about their “almighty” search algorithm. Getting people involved to improve the quality of there searches and rankings is a start. The only thing is the people involved are the webmasters. Google enventually will have to provide more support. Google has positioned itself as the defacto search engine. As such it is going to have to take responsibility to provide a friendlier, HUMAN voice, that the public can interface with. It will be necessary if they plan to live up to there motto of “do no evil.”

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