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One of my friends who is also a Linked In Contact wrote me this email in response to Linked In's automated updates :) 

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Greg  wrote:
LinkedIn
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GROUP UPDATES:

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* Caroline Meeks has joined Women 2.0
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Geez. I had no idea.  I won't ask about the new features.

(Sorry, but it couldn't be left alone...)

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Another reference to go along with my previous post notes how Richard Feynman's description of the NASA engineering process,

"The usual way that such engines are designed (for military or civilian aircraft) may be called the component system, or bottom-up design"

coincides with good programming practices.  Jake Voytko notices that Paul Graham says something similar in ANSI Common Lisp,

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Jeff Jarvis says that as Google makes search more personalized, search engine optimization will be less relevant.

"What does that mean to brands? The world gets confusing once more. But I think it means that true relevance becomes more important than SEO tricks"

James Robertson  says it has been irrelevant for awhile.

"Trying to "optimize" for Google (et. al.) is a game whose relevance is vanishing."

I agree, it has always been irrelevant if you were  actually providing useful content for your visitors.

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