Check out
http://scoblerizer.wordpress.com/ versus
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/.
That’s Just another little reminder from the universe that URIs were never designed for humans. And that identify theft is all-too-easy online.
It’s somewhat amusing … whoever started the scoble-like blog started blogging on April 13, 2006 with a classic “I’m blogging at last” post, and apparently ended that all-too-brief flirtation just two days later, on April 17.
Someone probably warned him/her that identify theft, even in the blogging world, is a bad idea.
Whoa.I now have all three of my former blogs (bizhack, art-n-artifice, and fishcrackers) imported into this uber-blog.The toughest one was bizhack, which had over 1400 posts and a 4.3 MB export file … 2.3 MBs over the Wordpress import limit.Wordpress import hackI had to use David Seah’s wordpress import hack to get it imported … which was interesting consider it was created for Wordpress 2.1 and the current version (which I’m using) is 2.3.If you’re doing this, be aware that you’ll need to search around a bit for the correct file locations.
OK, I’ve moved my OPML to Google Reader from Bloglines and I’m going to give it a shot.Based on the last 15 minutes use, it’s probably going to stick.We’ll see …
Consumer-generated Media has a nice breakdown of Steve Jobs open letter to early iPhone adopters who hit the roof when Apple recently announced the $200 price break.Excerpt:
What an incredible year to watch and learn from CEO-level behavior in times of crisis and difficulty. First we had Jet Blue, faced with an impossibly difficult situation, take to the airwaves on YouTube, apologize profusely, and announce a new passenger bill of rights. While Menu Foods practically hid their CEO during the pet recall issue, Mattel put their CEO, Bob Eckert, on the website video airwaves to nurture trust and confidence in the wake of the toy recall (a still-in-progress case study). Now we have Steve Jobs, who just wrote and posted the most remarkable letter in response to concerns about iPhone’s recent price decrease. He coupled an apology with a $100 Apple credit for all early-buyers of the iPhone. This is classic Defensive Branding. I predict it will be one of the most discussed, debated, and linked-to letters of the year, and so far I’ve already counted over 800 unique blog postings referencing his letter since 6 PM last night.
A full breakdown of the letter follows …
I’m on vacation for two weeks, so posting has and will continue to be light.Last week the whole extended family was in Osooyoos, BC, for some lake and sun and family time. This week I’m working around the house on a major landscaping project with Allan blocks, and next weekend we have something special planned with some families from church.Adios, and see you soon.
MediaTemple (my host) just released an interface to control your entire hosting account via iPhone.Pretty cool.A little trendy, but I can imagine this being extremely useful when on the road. To be honest, I bet it’s easier to use than their current control panel, which I’ve never been able to fully understand.Now we just need Wordpress for iPhone.
I guess the title says it all … Akismet, which is a comment spam identification and deletion tool, is under the active menu, Manage, not under Comments.Odd.On a related note, I’m getting something like 5000 comment spam attempts a week, of which about 1 makes it through onto the site.Two things that implies:
- Akismet is stunningly amazingly incredibly good. There are no words.
- A huge amount of web traffic is spambots looking for places to implant their evil input. I wonder what percentage? 1%? 3%?
- Bonus implication: the success rate for comment spam is approaching zero … for blog/forum owners who know about Akismet.
Just noticed tonight while checking Scoble’s take on the new Apple products that he’s only got 5 posts on his home page now.
Not enough, Scoble – you run more posts than that that in a single day sometimes. Having to click to a new page just to see what else was posted today is not optimal.. . .. . .I just went recently went down to 10 posts/page from 20, and it really sped up load times. But I don’t think I’ve ever done 10 posts in one day.
Aksimet must have gone down last night … I woke up to 40 emails from my blog.
(I set my blog to hold comments in moderation from people who do not have have prior approved comments … and email me when it does that.)
Seems to be back up this morning. Blogging without Akismet is almost impossible – at least if you want to allow comments.
Just wanted to call attention to the fact that my buddies at Agile Media have started up a blog: Personally Speaking.
Agile is a really interesting confluence of traditional printing and modern media, nicely combined in a unified marketing package that is personal, personal, personal.
I’m looking for more great things from you, Peter & Rick!
Today I trashed Creating Passionate Users from my bloglines feeds – holy mother that sucks.
Those who have followed the blog know that Kathy Sierra had some nastier-than-usual trolls in her audience whose words and actions seemed to be threats against Kathy’s physical and emotional wellbeing. You can find the details on Wikipedia. Most of the issues were resolved reasonably amicably in the subsequent firestorm of media and blogosphere attention.
To be honest, however, I’m really disappointed that she totally dropped the blog after this incident. I can’t help but feel there was an act of surrender here, a capitulation.
I say this knowing that I’m not really aware of what she personally went through, and at risk of causing even more pain. I don’t want it to be seen that way and I don’t wish anything but the best for Kathy Sierra.
She is her own person and needs to do what’s best for her. My opinions are my own and probably should mean nothing to her. But it sure feels like she raised the white flag.
And I can’t help but be disappointed by that.
Top 100 isn’t too bad …
You might have noticed the “Autoroll” blogroll in the sidebar of this blog. It’s designed to link similar blogs automatically … blogs that discuss similar topics to bizhack will dynamically show up in my blogroll.
Criteo, the company behind Autoroll, recently released the top 100 blogs on the service, also mentioning that Autoroll is growing quickly:
AutoRoll is accelerating its expansion in the blogsphere. Compared to last April, we have seen an impressive 50% growth of AutoRoll registered bloggers in May. This means that blog affinities are improving nicely. AutoRoll is indeed getting more and more accurate to find related blogs. This means also that it’s getting increasingly difficult to join the Top 100 blogs which have installed AutoRoll!
It’s kind of nice to know that bizhack is #33 on the list of top blogs currently using Autoroll. Modesty is appropriate, however, Autoroll is nowhere near as popular as some of the other blogroll innovators, such as MyBlogLog.
However, with 50% monthly growth … who knows?
I’m getting a wack-load of comment spam today. Hopefully none is slipping through to the site because i moderate, but this is annoying.
Usually the Akismet service deletes almost all comment spam before I even see it, but today it appears to be taking a long coffee break.
The Akismet website says nothing about being down, and the spam zeitgeist is still up and claiming that 14,326,525 spams have been viciously murdered so far today … but I’m getting way more spam.
Any clues?
I hate Russians.
Not all Russians – just the ones who keep ruining the internet for the rest of us by running half the spam zombies on the planet.
The software that runs this blog (Wordpress) notifies me every time I have a new registered user – someone who can post comments, even write posts. A couple times a day, I get a subscriber from Russia.
Every time I do, I know it’s some jerk who’s not reading my posts, not writing comments, and not contributing story. Rather, it’s someone who is going to make Akismet work harder to keep this blog clean of comment spam.
Bah. Humbug.
Perhaps it was better when they were the Evil Empire and we were were allowed to hate them.
[tags] russia, spam, comment spam, zombies, akismet, wordpress, john koetsier [/tags]
I was just wondering: what human needs drive web 2.0?
- Participation
Wanting to be part of something
- Belonging
Errr, sort of like participation but if participation is dating, belong is getting engaged
- Creativity
Wanting to make something
- Believing
Wanting to believe something
- Meaning
Wanting to matter. Related to believing but is more the result of believing.
- Becoming
Wanting to grow
That what I could come up with in about 30 seconds or so. I’m sure there’s more there …
[tags] web2.0, human needs, john koetsier [/tags]
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