Thanks for the advice. I am working on how to instill this into my kids.

Had twitter existed in Roosevelt’s time, I am sure that speech would have gone viral. Right from the opening, his quotes would have been the best. “The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”

#	Domain	Change	SISTRIX (before)	SISTRIX (after)	# KWs (before)	# KWs (after)
1	wisegeek.com	-77%	121,58	28,22	74.024	21.940
2	ezinearticles.com	-90%	65,08	6,65	184.508	54.277
3	suite101.com	-94%	54,04	3,28	178.373	36.904
4	hubpages.com	-87%	55,16	7,40	152.998	50.178
5	buzzle.com	-85%	43,25	6,55	86.472	24.423
6	associatedcontent.com	-93%	38,29	2,57	216.429	53.512
7	freedownloadscenter.com	-90%	30,26	3,01	42.486	7.992
8	essortment.com	-91%	25,73	2,32	27.501	7.459
9	fixya.com	-80%	28,78	5,83	62.034	36.167
10	americantowns.com	-91%	24,88	2,18	26.000	9.799
11	lovetoknow.com	-83%	25,75	4,28	49.544	17.833
12	articlesbase.com	-94%	19,96	1,16	82.274	31.365
13	howtodothings.com	-84%	21,20	3,39	33.222	7.601
14	mahalo.com	-84%	20,49	3,23	33.875	9.740
15	business.com	-93%	17,24	1,13	21.556	4.813
16	doityourself.com	-77%	20,89	4,90	23.256	6.870
17	merchantcircle.com	-85%	18,43	2,67	93.347	34.681
18	thefind.com	-83%	18,95	3,27	74.506	45.495
19	findarticles.com	-90%	16,98	1,74	64.810	20.189
20	faqs.org	-91%	16,52	1,46	33.648	11.142
21	tradekey.com	-89%	16,83	1,79	37.364	16.268
22	answerbag.com	-91%	12,93	1,11	67.314	26.054
23	trails.com	-87%	12,05	1,62	38.346	8.511
24	examiner.com	-79%	10,54	2,19	70.781	31.272
25	allbusiness.com	-88%	8,86	1,08	16.457	6.034

When Anne was at her sickest I spent a lot of time on Google trying to get as much medical information as I could. Through that process, I became more and more upset with the results on Google. It appeared that every content farm in the world had honed in on her medical condition and filled the search results with all kinds of crappy pages. After that experience I became very focused on the result sets. The more I focused the less satisfied I was with Google. Bing wasn’t much better and I still favor completeness over a smaller subset like Blekko. Fortunately more and more people started raising the issue and Google responded. I am glad Google raised their bar a little. Google has the power to make or break many companies, hopefully they will use that power wisely. I was a little surprised that Demand media is not seen as one of the content farms. Kudos to Demand for creating enough original content and getting over that hurdle.

from sistrix.com

Winners Take All

The superrich have grabbed the bulk of the past three decades’ gains.

If you look at intelligence by percentile you are amazed with how much smarter the top .01% are than the top 1%. Which is sad because being in the top 1% is a great thing and people who are that smart shouldn’t have to look and see how dumb they are on an IQ scale next to the others. In Athletics it goes the other way. The difference between being the fastest out of 100 and the fastest out of 10,000 isn’t that big of a difference. In fact the biggest difference is probably between being the fastest out of 3.5 billion and the fastest out of 7 billion people. (Go Usain) I think most people picture financial success to be similar to the athletic scale. Most people would therefor be wrong. But most people, or 9999 out of a ten thousand are not in the top .01% in IQ.

The truth is the scale is nearly logarithmic and the top .01 percent are so much richer than the top 1%. They make about about 250x more, I would give you a more accurate number but I am not in the top .01% in intelligence and I am too lazy to get the calculator out. I love the capitalist system, I love the idea of a meritocracy, however, I think things have become a little crazy.