Blogs and wikis thoughts (for Brian) at D’Arcy Norman Dot Net

A lot of people coming to this site are hoping to learn how to manage their own site easily and effectively. We focus on WordPress in the seminar- but also cover Wiki’s and Bulletin Boards- and the basics of Web 2.0. This post by the ever insightful D’Arcy Norman explains the importance of these new tools for the web.

This post is another example of using the Press-it capability in WordPress. Just remember- you don’t have to create all your content- you just need to be a good collection point.

Unless you speak Korean- probably not. But for those of you who think Google will never meet its match, pay attention. In Korea Naver has Google beat- and it’s winning by throwing a new variable into the search mix- user input.
The same way Wikipedia counts on it’s users to create content- Naver asks it’s users to answer questions- the reward – being ranked from ordinary to supernatural- and if you really know it all- you can be one of 22 “Gods.”
While Google uses some feedback from search selections to evaluate and provide page rank- it doesn’t go as far as to ask outright for the answers. Heuristic learning for search is probably the next big thing- if it isn’t already partially here now. For those of you who don’t know what heuristic is: an educational method in which learning takes place through discoveries that result from investigations made by the student.
In other words- you learn from trial and error until you get it right.
This probably isn’t applicable to how to get your site to the top of search just yet- but, the fact remains that if you provide the right answer- or the right links to the right answer- your site will be the last place the visitors stop- making you the expert for the minute- and maybe turn the visitor into a customer.

WordPress Hooks

If you are interested in all the code hooks in WordPress- this site is a work in process.