2008
09.03

AN algorithm IN OBSCURITY

Haven’t been feeling too bloggepreneurial lately. And it’s already September.

Imagine if your job was to be bad at your job … really bad. Feeling under the weather this weekend, I watched a little TV that would normally be missed. Dirty Jobs. With Mike Rowe. Everyone is always yelling at him. Every job he goes to … he’s never experienced. Yet most of these loosely educated proletarians scream at him for coming up short, damaging raw materials, or misusing the tools.

As quickly as I started wondering about how frustrated he could really be with the money he makes for hosting a silly TV show, I began feeling empathy for his job. He sucks at everything and is justified in the frustration expressed towards the people profiled on the show.

On a single show he got multiple bee stings, environmental sludge in his face, and patronized by a surf board manufacturer. At least I get a few wins here and there up at Hotels.com!

So I was testing a new algorithm that is a piece of SEO optimization research and ran it against my blog. Almost every paragraph came back with suggestions. I would say it works! Some of the funnier ones that I can’t believe I ever wrote:

Ironically, it only picked up one sentence that used the word “obscure” and none of my usual grammatical errors. Oh well.

Should have warned you this would not be a riveting or meaningful post even given a wide berth. So I’ll leave you with something that is both enthralling and consequential:

Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.

Psalm 25:7

Unrelated Transom Links

Coming this September …

  • Why I hate Facebook
  • The Science of Being Scammed or possible Scamola-ed: a book review.

FYI – “bloggepreneur” was coined last week by Mark Cuban when some blogger challenged the fact that he was not technically proficient, just Internet lucky. He simply agreed sarcastically that he was a minion compared to the mighty bloggepreneur that figured out his secret. Nicely played Cubby …

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