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January 31, 2005
Interview with a blog spammer
“The reality is that people purchase Viagra, they require porn, they gamble online. When people do that, there’s money being made”
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“If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits”
Germany’s legalization of prostitution and their unemployment policies bump uglies
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January 30, 2005
An introduction to mod_security
If your web host has it, you’ll love it. POST_PAYLOAD kicks serious butt against comment spam
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January 29, 2005
5 Years of “More Cowbell”
And at the core of the joke is a kernel of truth
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January 28, 2005
A Look Back at the Bubble Bowl
$40 million worth of dot com ads during the Super Bowl five years ago, from companies that went “poof”
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Dick Cheney at Auschwitz
“The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.”
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January 27, 2005
Blog Overkill - The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground
“I hadn’t witnessed such public expressions of high self-esteem since the last time I attended a journalism awards ceremony”
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The Death of Yesterday
“Twenty years ago, an everyday virus destroyed Clive Wearing’s brain. Now, all he can remember is music - and his wife.” It’s a story about a disease, but it’s really about love
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January 24, 2005
New MT vulnerability
Spammers are now hijacking MT comments in a new way (TextDrive has
shut it down)
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Friends of Democracy
A new blog in Arabic and English with “Ground-level election news from the people of Iraq”
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January 23, 2005
February 1, 2005: National ‘Photography in the Age of Homeland Security’ Day
“Calling on all photographers to document sublime expression unique to the imagery of skyscrapers, trains, bridges, tunnels, highways, subways, buses and dams.”
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January 22, 2005
css Zen Garden: “Geocities 1996”
“validity and accessibility by no means guarantee a good page” ... but it can still be damn funny. If you weren’t surfing the web in 1996, it may just hurt your eyes
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January 21, 2005
You might need to get a life if...
”...You make harsh statements about people and link to them in the process because you get a special thrill attempting to humiliate people in public”
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January 20, 2005
Protesting the Protesters
“Then he went down under a hail of black boots”
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January 19, 2005
Ta-da List: Simple sharable to-do lists
A free web-based “to do” list, from the folks who brought you Basecamp
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January 18, 2005
Sketchy Behavior from Noah
Noah goes black and white in a whole new way
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Google, Yahoo, and MSN support new anti-spam attribute
Google sez “when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results”
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Shame on the New York Times
Jeff Jarvis takes the Times to task for not only getting the story of Iraqi bloggers wrong, but endangering them with their loose lipped speculation
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January 17, 2005
Vintage Soviet Poster Database
How to go from Evil Empire to Cultural Kitsch in two decades or less
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EarthLink enters blogging universe (reg. req’d)
“The idea came from EarthLink’s public relations department because of worries that news was traveling faster on blogs than in conventional media.”
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Disaster Written All Over It
But it “Doesn’t matter” ... lovely writing about a “web connection”
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Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion
Chris Nolan on the Kos-Teachout Blowout: “This, my friends, is spin. It’s positioning. It’s politics. And it ain’t a coincidence.”
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There’s...
something ...
happening ...
here
What it is is exactly clear
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January 15, 2005
Brouhaha in the blogosphere
“Whoever decided to pay any of you is an idiot. Oh that’s right ... it was Joe Trippi.”
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January 14, 2005
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January 13, 2005
Don’t Photo
Big time photojournalists showcase their favorite campaign moments
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Introducing the Google Mini
It’s not a joke. And, what a coincidence, it’s $4995! It’s not exactly a mass market device, but still a lot of bang for buck
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Severe Tire Damage
A blast from the past, a reminder of old flamewars, and just how primitive this medium was not so very long ago
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Announcing the Apple iProduct
“Your life. In a small plastic case.”
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January 12, 2005
The Folly Of Content Management
“Do we really need to wear those goat-leggings and should we really be worshipping Google?”
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January 11, 2005
Michael E. O’Hanlon: Iraq Without a Plan
“The post-invasion phase of the Iraq mission has been the least well-planned American military mission since Somalia in 1993, if not Lebanon in 1983, and its consequences for the nation have been far worse than any set of military mistakes since Vietnam ... It was in fact unconscionable.”
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January 10, 2005
Photo Essay: A Private View of the President
Including “President Bush prepares his I-pod during a bicycle ride”
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January 09, 2005
The Broken Windows theory applies to comment spam, too
“Unremoved spam + fast google caching = lots more spam”
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No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That
“Wouldn’t you want us to show pictures from Auschwitz if the gates were opened in our time?”
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January 08, 2005
Digital Proof
“In short, this site is here to persuade you not to use the Internet Explorer web browser”
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January 06, 2005
Operation Gives’ “Fill the Plane” campaign
Operation Give is leveraging its relationship with FedEx to enable you to send more than just money towards tsunami relief
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General Says Army Reserve Is Becoming a ‘Broken’ Force
The 3 star general “complained that his repeated requests to adjust the policies to current realities have been rebuffed by Pentagon authorities”
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“Today, I was ‘Unprofessional’”
“I wasn’t laughing, and neither was my Hindi friend sitting next to me, who has lost family in the disaster”
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January 05, 2005
Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam
I hope their advice and latest patch work (I’ve seen some evidence it isn’t), because the next escalation could be ugly
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January 04, 2005
How the Left Betrayed My Country
“This was very disappointing for someone like me, who thought for decades that the Left was generally the progressive power in the world.”
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January 02, 2005
100 things we didn’t know at this time last year
Including “One gigabyte of information ... is the equivalent of a pick-up truck load of paper”
