I'm now one step closer to controlling the top Google result for my name.
 
Zoom Info used to be #4. I had never used the service, but it had assembled a profile for me via web indexing and its PageRank was considerably higher than mine. I claimed my Zoom Info profile and deleted all of the information it had, which caused it to stop serving a page for me. Eventually, it dropped out of the Google results.
 
I tried to move stackoverflow out of the results by changing my username from denton-gentry to dgentry. Unfortunately Googlebot had already indexed denton-gentry and stackoverflow will respond to any name for user=4761, so it will never drop out of the index.
 
I don't know why FriendFeed appears as #2. I'm certainly very active on friendfeed, but my full name "Denton Gentry" doesn't appear on that page.
 
Linkedin is #3, and it is so useful to have my full name there that I'm going to leave it.
 
Of course it could all come crashing down if I say the wrong thing to a net.celebrity at the wrong time. I'll endeavor not to do that.

When you share an item in Google Reader, it appears in your Shared Items list (open Your Stuff in the left hand column to see your Shared items).

When you share an item with a note, the icon changes to your profile picture. This isn't exactly intuitive, but it is at least consistent.

If you add a comment to a shared item, the icon changes again to include a little comment bubble. I had not noticed that before.

Googlebot has gotten faster at indexing real-time sites. I posted a link to friendfeed.com's API room at 3:57pm. Googlebot indexed it at 4:14pm, 17 minutes later.

Another bot running on the Amazon Web Services indexed the link even faster, at 4:01pm - just 4 minutes after posting it. That bot doesn't identify itself in the User-Agent, PyCURL is the name of the opensource software package it is using to fetch URLs. It also does not appear to honor robots.txt, which is a questionable decision.

The second word is "tolyatti." I'm uncertain what it means in Russian, but Recaptcha figured I should know it.

Really, I did not sell my soul to get more traffic. Its just a coincidence. Really.

I can't see a way to hook up Google Webmaster Tools for use with Posterous. It requires either a META tag be added to the pages, or that an HTML file with a particular name be created. I don't have the ability to do either one.

The tweetbots are getting smarter. The scripts conceal their spam amongst a selection of other tweets harvested from various unsuspecting twitter users. Sometimes it is unintentionally hilarious, such as tweeting that its time for bed and then 2 minutes later that they are at Starbucks. Sure: after a 2 minute power nap, one would need lots of coffee to get back in the game.

Behold: the cast iron bacon skillet. The ridges lift the bacon up out of the grease, and cast iron is inherently pure goodness.

"Mom, why is Cory Doctorow tweeting to himself?"
 
"Hush now, and don't make eye contact."
 
All kidding aside he is making an very good statement, and this tweet was in the middle of a bunch of @replies. He presumably just kept pushing the reply button out of habit.