Brigit M -- Sunday, July 17, 2005 -- 07:47:57 PM --
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That whole thing is creepy.
CalGal -- Friday, August 26, 2005 -- 10:38:24 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
Hey, something is really weird. It's like my entire weblog has disappeared--users are gone, weblogs are gone. I can't log in. The html files are still there. I have mt-medic and it says that everything is gone. What could cause that?
CalGal -- Friday, August 26, 2005 -- 10:49:19 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
Okay, I just checked and the files are all there. Doesn't that spell database?
Curie Tournesol -- Saturday, August 27, 2005 -- 03:12:52 AM --
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They are better than stars or water/Better than voices of winds that sing/Better than any man's fair daughter/
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
FFFT? I get "Why don't we do it in the road?" as the latest entry.
CalGal -- Saturday, August 27, 2005 -- 03:13:54 AM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
It's the backend that doesn't work. The front end is fine.
Curie Tournesol -- Saturday, August 27, 2005 -- 03:20:37 AM --
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They are better than stars or water/Better than voices of winds that sing/Better than any man's fair daughter/
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Oh, okay.
CalGal -- Saturday, August 27, 2005 -- 03:30:02 AM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
Thanks for checking, though.
Curie Tournesol -- Saturday, August 27, 2005 -- 03:42:52 AM --
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They are better than stars or water/Better than voices of winds that sing/Better than any man's fair daughter/
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.
Hey, it's 3:42am and I've nothing else to do. Happy to try.
Kteemac -- Wednesday, September 14, 2005 -- 09:14:36 PM --
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You win again, gravity!
Google Blog Search
From the About Google Blog Search link:
The goal of Blog Search is to include every blog that publishes a site feed (either RSS or Atom). It is not restricted to Blogger blogs, or blogs from any other service.
....
You can use Blog Search to find either specific posts or entire blogs. The main search results always return links to posts. However, when there are entire blogs that seem to be a good match for your query, these will appear in a short list just above the main search results.
Janey Garnet -- Wednesday, September 14, 2005 -- 11:29:12 PM --
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Blog search found my blog which cannot be found by regular googling. For what that's worth.
smartygirl -- Thursday, September 15, 2005 -- 09:10:29 AM --
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Is that the same as Feedster?
javajeanelaine -- Thursday, September 15, 2005 -- 07:52:43 PM --
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Coffee swilling evil overlord
Mine too, Janey.
GregD -- Thursday, September 22, 2005 -- 05:24:02 PM --
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Let not mankind bogart love.
Reporters Without Borders has prepared a handout for bloggers and cyber-dissidents out.
Frank Black -- Friday, September 30, 2005 -- 06:45:31 PM --
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Come over to the dark side. . . .we have cookies.
Is anyone else getting spam comments posted? I've been getting a few of these/week lately. They've been different, but all have about the same general content:
Nice Blog!!! It looks like you've spent a fair amount of time setting it up and keeping the content fresh. I'll be sure to come back.I have a online dating blog. It pretty much covers gay dating related stuff.Thanks again and keep up the good work.
The first few "noticed my posts about DNA testing" and directed me to some DNA testing company (e.g., for like paternity testing). The last ones have just been weird.
[Edit] The post above links to: http://free-online-dating-blog.blogspot.com/
[Edit] And I just looked it up. I guess the intent is to get your site "linked" on as many sites as possible so Google will rank it high.
[Edit] Bastards are nailing me like 10 times today, too.
yoyoma -- Friday, September 30, 2005 -- 08:09:54 PM --
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Administrators, Heed My Words!
The people at Blogger noticed this too and they've set up a thing where you can enable comment verification. This is like when you sign up for a free email. You have to type the letter/number sequence that shows up in a graphic. It's sort of a pain, but I've noticed hasn't reduced my very small number of comments.
I got a few really long ones about stock prices and giving money to people whose parents died in Nigeria, etc.
lime -- Friday, September 30, 2005 -- 09:35:09 PM --
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you can fight it, or you can rock out to it
I have a letter/number thing on my blogs, and very rarely get any spam. They have to try really hard to spam me.
CalGal -- Friday, September 30, 2005 -- 09:44:37 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
We're about to take comments off our blog, but if Larkin changes his mind, I need to ask you for that letter number thing again.
Anna Trueblood -- Saturday, October 01, 2005 -- 12:37:52 PM --
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Hey, how do I delete comments on blogger? I can't find it in the help files.
I have gotten spam comments on both of my blogs.
Lorelei -- Saturday, October 01, 2005 -- 01:40:14 PM --
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Trust the force and never keep receipts. -Kate D.
I use Haloscan for comments (Blogger didn't provide them when I started) and I don't know what they do, but I get essentially zero comment spam.
Of course, some day I really am going to switch over to Wordpress and then I'll probably do what Lime does. The thing with the letter/number things is, some of them are really hard! I got flagged as a spammer when I was trying to comment on a friend's livejournal because I just couldn't read the stupid letters. And I don't get that - the ones Lime has are quite clear, and that works fine at preventing spam. I guess maybe big sites are more likely to be targeted by spammers who actually have text-recognition software?
sweet pea -- Saturday, October 01, 2005 -- 11:13:45 PM --
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I hate it when I'm inflexible about things that are stupid.
I think it is just the software they have and LiveJournal happens to have particularly awful software. I always have to try it multiple times before I guess what the letters are correctly. Lime's is much easier.
My personal blog hasn't gotten hit, but the professional organization I work with has a blog that got spammed. The poor ED didn't know what had happened and approved at least one of the comments since it looked sort of legitimate, if weird.
Mogget -- Friday, October 07, 2005 -- 06:32:56 PM --
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Lawyers blog.
"It's all words, that's all the law is," Scott Turow, a lawyer and the author of "Presumed Innocent" and other novels, said when asked to speculate on reasons for the proliferation of law-related blogs, sometimes called blawgs. When people think of law, he continued, "You think of jails and marshals and corporate executives. But the reality is, that's what it is - it's all words, and lawyers are verbal people, both in terms of the written stuff and the spoken stuff."
Mr. Turow, the author, noted that people who might once have kept a journal now keep a blog. " 'One L' today would be a blog," he said, referring to his memoir of his first year at Harvard Law School. "I kept a journal. These days I probably would post it."
The law has always fascinated lawyers and nonlawyers alike, which may explain some of the sites' popularity.
"Lawyers tend to have something credible to say about an important subject," said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who nevertheless expressed skepticism about Blogads' survey results. "Lawyers have been educated about the legal system, which people are interested in."
PincherMartin -- Wednesday, October 12, 2005 -- 10:47:39 AM --
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Sullivan is back up
Nicholas Kronos -- Tuesday, October 18, 2005 -- 11:02:22 AM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
Interesting. I'm using WordPress for my blog now and when I linked back to an old piece I wrote in July it automatically linked my new piece as a comment.
Which I guess is a trackback, but I didn't know that it would occur passively and to the same blog.
CalGal -- Tuesday, October 18, 2005 -- 11:06:02 AM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
That is interesting.
lime -- Monday, November 07, 2005 -- 06:20:28 PM --
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you can fight it, or you can rock out to it
Cool!
R-Doh -- Monday, November 07, 2005 -- 11:39:49 PM --
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It's all good.
Congratulations!
milkmaid -- Tuesday, November 08, 2005 -- 10:03:19 AM --
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I saw a headline recently for something about fossils that were found fused together in a sort of sexual fashion. And I thought, well. Both of Frank's interests tied up in one.
Good job on the mention..very cool.
lime -- Wednesday, November 09, 2005 -- 03:00:47 AM --
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you can fight it, or you can rock out to it
I'm getting really close to having my own blog up and running on my own software (which is really V3 of the forum software, but now it's called citrusPress).
The next step, then, will be to add in all of the UI for the configuration of the pages, (because everything's configurable in the new version, but not through a pretty and informative UI) and then it might actually be ready to release into the wild.
Kathy Barthway -- Thursday, November 10, 2005 -- 01:02:55 AM --
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Way to go, Frank!
sweet pea -- Thursday, November 10, 2005 -- 01:48:59 AM --
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I hate it when I'm inflexible about things that are stupid.
I am working with a blog running Moveable Type. We want to do verification of comments, in order to turn off the need for comment approval. Where do we find the best verification code? Is it hard to install?
GregD -- Tuesday, November 15, 2005 -- 01:02:45 PM --
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Let not mankind bogart love.
Pajamas Media: "We is Fact-Checked!"
They're moving to implement the "layers of fact-checking and editorial control" that so many bloggers, even bloggers now part of PJM, have long derided. I thought one of the inherent benefits of the blogosphere was that the facts kind of sorted themselves out. Would it not be cute for them to become the very thing they despise?
CalGal -- Tuesday, November 15, 2005 -- 01:06:47 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
The link doesn't work. Did you see that Judy Miller is going to be the keynote speaker at their kickoff?
Nicholas Kronos -- Tuesday, November 15, 2005 -- 01:12:30 PM --
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"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it." Ronald Reagan
"layers of fact-checking and editorial control"
I don't see that phrase in the piece, despite your quote marks. The word "control"--particularly "editorial control"--doesn't appear at all.
As for fact-checking:
Pajamas Media will also distinguish itself from the mainstream folks, according to Simon, with "a new method of fact-checking."
An internal instant-messaging system will link their correspondents all over the world. If there are any doubts about a report's veracity, they can call on the expertise of their editors instantly.
These editors thus far include California-based freelance journalist Jill Stewart, Tennessee-based Glenn Reynolds of the ur-blog Instapundit, and Aussie columnist Tim Blair.
"If we're not certain a story is real," Simon said, "we immediately ping our eight wise men and check it out."
More than that, however, Johnson and Simon consider the entire blogosphere their fact-checkers. This is a sacred tenet among many bloggers. If a blogger makes a mistake, readers will call him on it right away, either via comment or email. And the blogger is honor-bound to correct it immediately and clearly.
So how does this undermine the previous claim that the blogosphere was self-correcting?
CalGal -- Tuesday, November 15, 2005 -- 01:15:46 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
Well, it seems a tad contradictory.
But I agree with Jeff Jarvis about Pajamas Media--it's definitely morphed. There's a guy out there who was involved in the original effort that Simon cut and dumped who has been rather spookily effective at highlighting how much of a fraud this thing is. The Luke Ford bit, the New York office, and so on.
Frank Black -- Wednesday, November 16, 2005 -- 04:15:27 PM --
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Come over to the dark side. . . .we have cookies.
Say, what's the proper procedure for dealing with emails from blog readers? If one gets an email to the address listed on the blog (e.g., archaeolblog@whatzit.com) is it kosher to post emails one receives on said blog without actually getting permission from the sender? Seems to me that's sort of implied consent, sending to a blog address.
CalGal -- Wednesday, November 16, 2005 -- 04:18:43 PM --
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I'd much rather argue than make money.
For some reason, the norm is to ask permission. But there's no legal or actual requirement to do so.
smartygirl -- Wednesday, November 16, 2005 -- 07:30:24 PM --
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A lot of blogs post disclaimers near their email addresses, saying basically "anything you email me is fair game."
milkmaid -- Thursday, November 17, 2005 -- 08:42:15 AM --
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However, Frank, you're not allowed to ask what the reader was wearing when the email was sent.
