links for 2008-05-17

"As the web matures and Google improves its results with the most relevant sites, it’s going to become increasingly difficult for small publishers to get ahead. Google will take away many of the most effective tactics by labeling them 'spam'"

Not just naysaying for the sake of it, the article includes some tips on which traditional networking and marketing skills you should hone instead of fiddling around trying to understand Digg or StumbleUpon.

"Imagine a librarian trying to organize millions of books by category, author, title, etc. And each day hundreds of trucks come in and dump more books on top of the few which were already organized."

With some examples of when the extra 8 links are not terribly helpful at all

"If I had any juice left in my magic wand, I'd wave it so that SEO and IXD and IA and UX were not mutually exclusive disciplines, that one does not have to survive or succeed at the expense of the other". Amen to that.

"Youtube cloaks any video that gets flagged as having inappropriate content. And this is a LOT of youtube. A shadow youtube almost."