GNOME developer David Trowbridge on why the mobs posting a certain hexadecimal number around various places on the Internet are not being productive:
Most of the people copying this key did so under some delusional notion of “free speech” or “numbers not being copyrightable”. Under current US law (regardless of what you think of it), this [...]
I do not know who designed President Ahmadinejad's blog, but they did not do a good job.
The Good Stuff
Easy to remember URL.
Nice use of AJAX.
The Bad Stuff
Using Visual Studio .NET 7.1 and a table-based design to create the page. Speaking of which, the site should degrade gratefully if JavaScript is disabled.
Spelling errors. While I can [...]
It is 4am in the morning. Nobody is using the Internet. What happens when I do a search on popular blog search engine Technorati?
The above error message admit that something is wrong. Occasionally when trying to search, Technorati will claim that there are zero results, even on common words like "Bush," "blogging," and "Apple."
Using Ben de Groot's drop-in replacement for wp-atom.php, I quickly and simply updated this blog's Atom 0.3 feed to Atom 1.0. If this negatively affects you, let me know. Otherwise, rejoice!
Ben White writes:
What I would like to see is one centralized index of all Harvard blogs. There are now enough places where Harvard students are getting their views out, but we're all scattered to the winds. We don't need more hosting services after this, but we do need a place to keep track of everyone [...]
Unrestrained praise of CampusTap is unjustified, as their consolidation of the Harvard blogosphere could only increase its separation from conversations on the Internet.
From a birthday dinner on Monday night:
Girl: I think CampusTap might really take off. Lots of people are blogging now.
slight pause, during which I am trying not to smile…
Girl: I mean, besides people in the underworld.
I took great effort not to burst out laughing, especially imagining the crazy hijinks that would ensue if I did [...]
A criticism of traditional media's views toward blogs, focusing on Matthew Gline's January 6 article in the Harvard Crimson.
Saturday, December 31, 2005
In what is definitely the strangest way I have ever celebrated New Year's, I am changing the site's RSS feeds from full text to summary. If this causes a problem for anyone, let me know, and I will consider changing them back.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Lately, I have been looking at this website's traffic. If you were to graph traffic in number of actual people visiting the site and reading the content here, your graph would look a lot like a bell graph, with the highest number of people visiting in the summer months (June through August). This seems reasonable, [...]
I was pleasantly surprised to see the results of DailyKos' July poll for the Democratic Party presidental nominee in 2008. Currently, Wesley Clark is in the lead with 37% of the votes. He also won the June poll. Of course, this does not make him a shoo-in for the nomination. As Kos writes, "Right now, [...]
After looking at a couple of WordPress plugins that implement Techorati tagging, I decided to go with Ben O'Neil's Technorati Tags plugin. I did not like some of the default settings, so I made some modifications, the most notable of which was adding a link to the Technorati Tags help page before the tags' listing. [...]
From Boing Boing comes Loic Le Meur's post on the official French word for blog: bloc-notes, or bloc for short. I am not sure how useful creating different words for already-established terms is for the preservation of the French language, though. For example, I doubt that Le Monde will change the name of its Blogs [...]
Monday, December 27, 2004
Since the beginning of winter break, I have been deluged by comment spam attempts. Most of them involved "tramadol," a painkiller, or "texas hold-em poker," both of which are included on the list of words that cause comments to be moderated (a list which borrows heavily from the "Spam Words" list on the Wordpress Wiki). [...]
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Since the entire idea of writing online is producing your own content, blog plagiarism would seem a bit moronic. As any reader of Chilling Effects could tell you, this is not the case. I was reading a post on Weblog Tools Collection about a person offering to install WordPress blogs for others for free. It [...]
Well, not quite yet. An article in today's New York Times (which does not actually use the phrase "astroturfing") details music conglomerate Warner Bros.' attempt to ingratiate itself with MP3 blogs in order to promote a band called The Secret Machines (who, incidentally, have 2 albums with 8+ ratings on Pitchfork) - with disastrous results:
"I [...]
The lack of blogging this weekend was caused by my decision to reformat and reinstall Gentoo (and not by fears of litigation) after gxine and mplayer gave up the ghost. Except for the massive amount of time it took, the only casualties were my "dot files" (which scp did not copy), which included all of [...]
Accordion Guy blogs about the "Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism" Conference (clunky name, but interesting content), which occurred earlier today in Toronto. Over the span of several posts, he lays out a detailed reconstruction of the speeches and Q&A sessions in convenient bullet-point format. Start at the first post here. It's [...]
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My little sister is complaining that I am spending too much time blogging and not enough talking to her, but after *almost* blogging about the same back-to-school girl appearing on both Dell and Gateway's website, I could not pass this up. I was reading Adam Penenberg's latest Wired article when I came across a link [...]
New York Senator Chuck Schumer on blogging:
ES: What do you think of blogging, and the fact that the Convention offered approximately 35 bloggers credentials?
CS: I think blogging is great. It supports a dialogue that reaches out to everyone, and in our new interconnected, more democratic world, blogging fits the bill. It has its tentacles that [...]
"Atrios," until today the most famous anonymous blogger (and arguably the most famous liberal blogger), is among the bloggers attending the Democratic convention. So is Dave Winer, previously of the Berkman Center, who pointed to a post on TalkLeft (which confirms my suspicion that bloggers are the nicest people) and had this to say:
Hearing that [...]
I was reading today's music news over at Pitchfork (regrettably, they never answered my query about RSS; I might want to look into doing a screen-scrape, as the only other RSS feed I could find seems to be broken, despite being active not two months ago). The top story is about the Decemberists' heading back [...]
Corrente is one of my favorite political blogs. Not just because it hails from Philadelphia, but because they have incisive commentary. In their recent post on Minnesota Republicans being asked to provide political data on their neighbors, I am afraid that they have been fooled. They quote Larry Colson, Bush's e-campaign chair in Minnesota, calling [...]
Found a link on Scripting News to this interesting Wired article about the New York Times' relationship with Google and the Internet in general. Adam Penenberg remarks that New York Times articles rarely come up in Google searches.
Two years ago, Martin Nisenholtz, chief executive of New York Times Digital, bet $1,000 that nytimes.com would outrank [...]
I found a link to the official campaign blog of Barack Obama, a Democratic candidate for an Illinois senate seat on Atrios' Eschaton, noting that Obama was willing to have a series of six debates with his opponent, Jack Ryan. Having read some things (all good) about Obama, I was not surprised. However, I did [...]
I have lost patience with web bots that do not look for robots.txt when they visit this site, so I am now denying all non-compliant robots access. Now my .htaccess file looks like this:
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.marteydodoo.com/403.html
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.marteydodoo.com/404.html
# Goodbye bad bots
# The World as a Blog - cool, but non-compliant
Deny from [...]
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Robert Scoble complains about a lack of media disclosure in an informIT article by Nigel McFarlane that is highly critical of Internet Explorer. Scoble says:
Imagine for a moment that I wrote an article praising Longhorn in PC Magazine. Wouldn't you want to know that I'm a "professional commentator" on the topic and that I'm seen [...]
?Work is aggravating me,? she wrote in an April 28 entry on the publicly accessible journal, the contents of which have since been taken offline. ?I am one shade lighter than homicidal today. I am two snotty e-mails from professors away from bombing the entire Harvard campus.?
It's probably not a good idea to make threats [...]
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
I'm am posting this from twm, because I did not have the foresight to emerge a better/newer/shinier windowmanager before emerging gnome 2.6. But you did not want to hear about that, and more of half of you, unable to understand what the heck I was talking about in the last sentence, have probably walked [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2004
The good Commisar at the Politburo Diktat added me to the "Bloggers' Bestiary", described as "An Imaged Collection of Some of The Commissar's Favorite Blogs." I wonder if I can use this "Favorite of the Commissar" status to gain material goods, like cars, caviar, and women.
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