{"id":944,"date":"2009-11-25T18:27:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-11-25T21:03:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T04:03:41","slug":"the-mayor-of-dead-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/11\/25\/the-mayor-of-dead-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mayor of Dead Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tweet snippet of a conversation I replied to @ButtercupD who had been tweeting for the few days prior to this conversation that she was elected by <b>Four Square<\/b> to be the mayor of different locations in her area.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@ButtercupD: According to foursquare, I&#8217;m the mayor of Fred Segal\/Santa Monica, and that&#8217;s all that matters. period.<\/li>\n<li>@juixe: my boss wants me to be the mayor of the office&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>@ButtercupD: aww, bummer. doesn&#8217;t sound as fun as fred segal. :((<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this tweet snippet, I had been thinking how my Kindle holds a whole bookshelf of books, how a private library of physical books can take up whole bunch of storage space (dead space) and paper (dead trees).  A laptop, netbook, or electronic book reader can contain as much knowledge as there is at the local library.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@techknow: A book is heavier than the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>@KishoreGopalan: But Internet doesnt give you the pleasure of page-turning.<\/li>\n<li>@techknow: The pleasure I miss most from having physical hard cover books is throwing them at people. ;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This conversation started when I asked if Google should remove the &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; button from their home page.  Google prides themselves in having a minimalistic home page, they have been known to count and limit the number of words that appear on the home page.  Thinking about how they could reduce down their page I thought of two suggestions. They could remove the lucky button or use hieroglyph-like icons for words such as privacy, search, lucky, sign out, settings, etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>@techknow: Should Google remove the &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; button from their home page?<\/li>\n<li>@mtodd: No. In fact, I wish that button was available everywhere, because I often know the first result is what I&#8217;m looking for&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>@techknow: I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever clicked on the &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221; button. Does that say something about how I feel as a person about search?<\/li>\n<li>SchemaCzar: Until &#8220;Google Search&#8221; gives repeatable results, every button should read &#8220;I&#8217;m Feeling Lucky&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you like to chime in with our thoughts about code, process, management, and just about anything else, hit me up at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techknow\">techknow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/juixe\">juixe<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tweet snippet of a conversation I replied to @ButtercupD who had been tweeting for the few days prior to this conversation that she was elected by Four Square to be the mayor of different locations in her area. @ButtercupD: According to foursquare, I&#8217;m the mayor of Fred Segal\/Santa Monica, and that&#8217;s all that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,86,50],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-fe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}