Inspired by Alex Wild's post I study the wrong thing…", I decided to run my own stats on the trending efficacy of my studies/classes. It looks like humanity (or the searches we do) jumped the shark around Fall '08 (although one could argue for the scientific possibilities of a quantum-focused Zombies Studies course): Yep, zombies always win (except against plants, of course). Thank goodness Associated Content or Demand Media style optimization algorithms don't run our educational system. Yet.

Personally, I'm not sure which I'm more over... Facebook or news sites that split up relatively short articles over multiple pages to increase page views.

The five stages of Facebook grief - Computerworld: A gaming site called Roiworld surveyed 600 teenagers and found that 20% of teens have either dropped Facebook or are using it less. Of those who have abandoned Facebook altogether, 43% say it's because there are "too many adults or older people," their parents are on Facebook or because they're concerned about privacy.

Thank goodness for RSS and Safari's Reader feature to help me avoid both (scams that prey upon human nature) as much as possible. /rant

I was concerned that when I moved from samharrelson.com to sam.harrelson.fm, it would take a little while for this new site to be indexed. In reality, this install of Wordpress and its current database (and set of posts) is much cleaner now than the former samharrelson.com one. I did a ton of work on deduping, etc. So, it wouldn't have broken my heart if this site didn't get sucked into the Google vortex overnight. So, I made the post referenced above at 9:36 PM EST and by 10:32 PM EST, it was indexed. I guess it doesn't hurt that I made sure (this time) to do all the correct redirection and 301's on the domain side and I'm using Google's Feedburner (with its associated Pingshot PubSubHubub delivery) for my RSS feeds (had to do that for a number of reasons). Just thought it was curious how fast Google moves these days. [Update] And now it's down to about five minutes from post-to-index as I just got a Google alert for this post at 9:23 after posting at 9:17. Quick!