Mark Dykeman

frankfurters are named after berlin - Cee Bee

Diet Coke was named after God of Nectar - Josh Haley

haha...Josh, you are on a tear! - JA Castillo

It's not lupus - Josh Haley

www.play.net/dr come play with us!!!! - Monique via fftogo

they have web sites now? We had to use telnet. - Charles

"Good stuff, Jason. There's a lot here that I didn't know about, particularly about Pages. Thanks." - Mark Dykeman

UM, Huff Po has been at the top for awhile... - Mark Dykeman

"Hi Stephen, there's a problem with the TinyURL you provided to Deragon's article - I get an error page instead. Google Page Rank is a potential (and incomplete) measure of influence to outsiders or strangers, but I tend to agree that there are other aspects which need to be considered." - Mark Dykeman

I enjoy MG's work. I was shocked to discover that he's 26... I expected him to be at least six years older, I guess. I guess I'm not immune to ageism and pre-judging (sorry MG!) - Mark Dykeman

Steve, a very interesting post. I'm writing a post regarding yours; not sure that I completely agree with your conclusion, but I'll try to explain why. - Mark Dykeman

not sure I agree either .. maybe in the beginning days of PR but now .... I don't know. - Steven Hodson

Steve -- you mention that the PageRank of users on Twitter and FriendFeed differs due to how long they've been on those sites. Yours and Scoble's higher-than-normal PageRank value there really comes from people linking directly to your page on each sites. It's PageRank in action -- every page on the web has a value derived from the links that go directly to it and from the value passed to the page from the domain it is on. FWIW, I generally agree with what you're saying. The only issue is that not all links are treated equally these days. Links from so many sites and services are excluded, such as Delicious, StumbleUpon, etc. I know it's to stop spamming,but it would paint a more complete picture if it could be incorporated into PageRank. - Richard Crocker

It depends on who you're trying to influence. PageRank doesn't mean crap if you're trying to become the king of the Twitterati. - Aaron B. Hockley

"Thanks Tom!" - Mark Dykeman

bwah, hah, hah. That included me. - Mark Dykeman

I enjoyed so much! : ) http://friendfeed.com/e/272cc8... But I don't want to see them again!! : ) - Erhan Erdogan

Note that if it went down all the time, nobody's make such a fuss. It's because it's up most of the time that we make a fuss when it goes down. - Amit Patel

"T'weren't nuthin'" - Mark Dykeman

"Yeah, it was short lived, perhaps, but we'll be back!" - Mark Dykeman

quite pragmatic, really - Mark Dykeman

is there such a thing? - Zee from WeDoCreative

So you wanted a headline on TechMeMe ? It's there :) - Charlie Anzman

@Charlie - wasn't looking for it but hey I'm not going to turn it down :) - Steven Hodson

"Steven, this has got to be one of your top posts ever. There's a hell of a lot of wisdom in this post. Your point about the limitations of social media presence and promotion (i.e. social media users, and probably the die-hard ones at that are the only people you'll encounter there) is very, very important." - Mark Dykeman

"Good primer, Kat - I like that you've included other references for further reading." - Mark Dykeman

"Sure, but he doesn't write in haiku, so..." - Mark Dykeman

"yup" - Mark Dykeman

nuts. I haven't used eBay in years, but I was thinking about it. Not so sure I will now. - Mark Dykeman

My brother was recently screwed over by Ebay/paypal http://www.kevinbondelli.com/2... - Kevin Bondelli

That's ridiculous! I usually just forget about the feedback thing because I buy so infrequently anymore. And some people are just jerks and won't leave positive feedback. I'll stick with Craigslist from now on. - JMSmiles

People still buy things on eBay? There are much better places to buy stuff these days. - Jason Huebel

I'm a big fan of Simmons's Hyperion Cantos books - Mark Dykeman

WOW, awesome! - Susan Beebe

wow, good going - Mark Dykeman

congrats! only if we can find a away convert the number of comments to cash :P - imabonehead

No kidding, imabonehead!! - Lindsay Donaghe

as relates to the Iraq invasion - Mark Dykeman

Matthew is getting bigger and is smiling and giggling a lot. He's just now large enough to sit in the Bumbo seat, and hold his head up without rolling around. You can see in these pictures how excited he is! Sarah might be at this stage in a few weeks. (BTW - Correction: Bumbo) - Louis Gray via mail2ff

**ADORABLE!!** Soooo cute and HAPPY!! - Susan Beebe

Great pictures!!! =) - David Cook

I have to pass this on just on the off chance some of you may be comic book readers. This blog is great and so is this post. - Mark Dykeman

In a moment, I'll give you one more. Congrats! Big milestone. - Chris Baskind

congrats Mark! Hopefully I am not far behind! - Rob Diana

Thanks guys. Rob, you and I seem to be neck and neck, like, forever. :) - Mark Dykeman

Glad to help, dude! Keep rockin'. - Remarkablogger

"This is just disgusting. I cannot believe that everyone that Zaibatsu listed was using scripts and deserved banning. Something is rotten in the state of Digg." - Mark Dykeman

"There's probably a few variations on that response, but, yeah." - Mark Dykeman

OMG! Ark 2! (I really shouldn't be getting excited about this, but it's a childhood memory, like the Starlost...) - Mark Dykeman