“Everything looks like a blog”

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Aaron on Wireless “Security”

Aaron on Wireless “Security” 12/31/2002 01:09 PM
Aaron Schwartz explains why I run an open access point in my apartment. All my systems are secure, so if someone wants to leach a bit of cable bandwidth off me, I'm fine with that. Sadly, people keep talking about...

Top 20 de definiciones sobre el
“Blogging”

Top 20 de definiciones sobre el
“Blogging” 12/11/2003 06:12 AM
20 definizioni di blog

marketingprofs.com/3/weil9.asp
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an article about so-called
“Darwinian literary
studies,”

an article about so-called
“Darwinian literary
studies,” 12/04/2003 05:00 AM
descubierto que a las mujeres les atraen ms los patanes .. For a Good Time, Well, Don€™t Call Dad

nytimes.com/2003/12/02/health/psychology/02CADS.html
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Workers assail Wal-Mart
“lock-in” policy

Workers assail Wal-Mart
“lock-in” policy 01/19/2004 07:18 AM
The Nightly Employee Lock-In at WalMart .. locks workers in stores at night

nytimes.com/2004/01/18/national/18WALM.html
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Read “Here’s The Beef”
from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Read “Here’s The Beef”
from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette 07/05/2004 04:42 AM
read his latest column

nwanews.com/adg/story_Editorial.php?storyid=69194
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Video of the boy band Townsend covering
“Pour Some Sugar On Me”

Video of the boy band Townsend covering
“Pour Some Sugar On Me” 08/27/2004 01:42 PM

ksjs.org/media/townsen.html
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“the FBI is warning police
nationwide to be alert for people
carrying almanacs.”

“the FBI is warning police
nationwide to be alert for people
carrying almanacs.” 12/30/2003 05:04 AM
people reading almanacs could possibly be considered terrorists? .. almanacs

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/12/2 9/national1426EST0580.DTL&type=printable
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Bush’s State of the Union: Social
Security “Bankruptcy ?”

Bush’s State of the Union: Social
Security “Bankruptcy ?” 02/05/2005 09:55 PM
Dick Cheney's favorite web site .. exhausted and bankrupt

factcheck.org/article305m.html
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Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr.

Putting out colo fires (literally!), aka
“A weekend of downtime”,
grrr. 09/26/2004 05:04 PM

Ugh. What a horrible weekend. I and the team have been spending the entire weekend dealing with massive data corruption caused - of all things - by an electrical fire on the main electrical line coming into our colo here in San Francisco.

The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures that has caused the Technorati service to be down for most of the weekend. It's also giving me a lot more respect for people who build and maintain 100% uptime of services, the trials and tribulations they go through, and also the cost of being operationally excellent.

What Happened

At about 9:30PM PST Friday, there was an electrical fire on the power main inside our colocation center, where our entire server infrastructure is housed. This caused our battery backup power supplies to kick in, but the independent power generator at the colo never kicked in - possibly because the problem was a fire inside the building rather than a general power blackout of the neighborhood. Well, the fire was only problem #1. We weren't expecting or planning for an outage of that kind. It caused a cascade of other problems that made the rest of the weekend a huge PITA. Problem #2 was that we didn't have a good enough emergency plan in place that would shut our systems down cleanly when power ran out like that. Unfortunately, that meant that when the batteries died, our server farm went down quite ungracefully - causing problem #3, which was data corruption due to the unclean shutdown.

The rest of the weekend has been spent recovering from these failures - we've had to do consistency checks and then rebuilds of the data sets that got corrupted, and we're doing that for over a hundred machines. Bad bad bad. At least we've been performing regular daily backups, and we're able to use that as starting points on our road to recovery. The current ETA to get services back up and running is by Monday morning, which will mean a weekend of unplanned downtime.

What we're doing about it

Clearly, this is unacceptable, but the damage is already done, so the big question on my mind is how to learn from this outage and make sure that it never happens again. One of the important things learned is that there's a reason why some colocation centers are called “Tier 1” (and priced that way) and others are not. Tier 1 means that everything is overprovisioned, and there's plenty of infrastructure backup already built into the place - electrical, network, fire suppression, environmental, security, etc. We have been planning a move to a new colocation center, but this most recent incident just underscores the need to move asap. Second, it illustrates a hole we had in our emergency plan - we had built our emergency plan based on a threat level of a short outage followed by a quick electrical recovery. We had planned for a shutdown of critical systems if battery power fell below a certain threshold (upsd for you techies out there), but we hadn't gotten it implemented given that we were planning the move to the new colo. That of course, led to the data corruption that is keeping the team up all weekend.

Once we get past this crisis and get the service back up and running again, I guarantee that we'll be doing a post-mortem analysis to see where the failure points were, and how we can avoid them in the future. I have learned a lot from this experience about the value (and implicit cost) of planning and building systems around unreliable components, and doing everything you can to eliminate risk - and also about planning for quick recovery when the unthinkable happens. I have a lot of respect for the folks at Google, Yahoo, eBay, and the like for their ability to build and maintain a solid world-class infrastructure, have it scale, and also innovate with new applications as well.

Planning for Murphy's Law

Count me as one of the humbled. To our users and customers: Ouch this hurts, and we're working on making sure that outages like this never happen again. To the folks down in ops and engineering at companies around the globe keeping these systems running and useful, no matter what Murphy throws at you, you've got my appreciation.

I'll post as we have more updates on service status as the day progresses.

danah boyd’s “Revenge of the
User” presentation at the
O’Reilly emerging technology
conference

danah boyd’s “Revenge of the
User” presentation at the
O’Reilly emerging technology
conference 02/13/2004 07:16 AM

zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/02/11/my_etech_talk_revenge_of_ the_user.html#004027
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Understanding “Critical
Understanding”

Understanding “Critical
Understanding” 09/14/2004 04:21 PM

I suspected my point in "Crit ical Understanding" was buried in enough subtlety to warrant an explanation; here it is.

pt’s “How-To”
Tuesday…How to play purchased
music on other systems… -
Engadget - www.engadget.com

pt’s “How-To”
Tuesday…How to play purchased
music on other systems… -
Engadget - www.engadget.com 05/19/2004 09:00 PM
How to play purchased music on other systems€¦ .. How To Break iTunes DRM .. step-by-step

engadget.com/entry/2127813034623335
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Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g

Trouble finding content for your bl0g?
Heres an idea: Make your bl0g into an
answerbl0g 12/19/2004 03:32 PM
This is a new "trend" that I am seeing amongst some of the blogs I follow: People have started reading their keyword logs and begun answering the questions that their visitors obvisouly have. Mind you, some of the questions that...

Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g)

Yahoo! Search bl0g Launched (Jeremy
Zawodny's bl0g) 08/20/2004 06:41 AM
ysearchblog commentators .. background information .. some background info .. weitere Details .. Jeremy Z ..

jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002431.html
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Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog

Wish-of-the-Month Club, Part 1 of 3 -
Archives - Blog - 0xDECAFBAD Blog 06/18/2004 04:58 AM
0-Click Shopping(tm), using Amazon's Web Services .. Automatic wishlist purchases with Amazon's API .. Make your own wishes come true, once

decafbad.com/blog/2004/06/16/wishofthemonthclub1
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Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year!

Thanks, Bloggies! BB wins best group
bl0g, and bl0g of the year! 03/14/2005 05:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: Boing Boing pal Scott Beale informs us that our blog just won Group Weblog of the Year at the Bloggies. OMG! What a huge honor! Thank you, Bloggies. We honestly didn't expect this, and we are deeply moved and grateful. There were many other deserving blogs up for awards, backed by talented folks who work very hard, and we raise our collective pirate-eye-patches in their honor: check 'em all out. On behalf of my blog-mates Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, and David Pescovitz; our wise "band manager" John Battelle; our sysadmin par excellence Ken Snider; and the rest of the team and extended family that makes Boing Boing possible -- a humble thank you. But most of all, we are grateful to you, our readers, for wasting otherwise productive time on our collective scrapbook of "wonderful things," and for pointing us to even more of those wonderful and undiscovered things each day. We're really sorry that we couldn't make it to SXSW in person to accept the award, but we hope you'll join us in celebrating in person tomorrow at ETCON ( all five of us will be in the same place for the first time). Boing Boing sprouted online a little over five years ago, from paper zine roots planted by Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair. It is a privilege to blog for you. With you, we look forward to another adventurous year of link-discuss to come. Link

Update: Holy crap! Reader Nathaneal Heasley sez, "Not only did BB win best group ‘blog, it won “blog of the year/best weblog overall� – congratulations!" For those keeping track, this is the second year in a row Boing Boing has received these two awards: Link to 2004, Link to 2005. Man. We're speechless, and overwhelmed by your generosity.

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl

Reading from the Bible on the floor of
the Senate on Tuesday, Sen. Orrin Hatch
endorsed a federal judicial nominee who
wrote that wives should have a
subordinate role in marriage, with the
Utah Republican emphasizing
“millions and millions of peopl 07/09/2004 04:52 AM

166.70.44.66/2004/Jul/07072004/utah/181590.asp
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Joho the Blog: Video bl0g

Joho the Blog: Video bl0g 08/01/2004 05:01 PM
video blog .. vlog

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/002909.html
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The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often

The Blog Herald: More bl0g news more
often 12/30/2003 01:34 AM
http://www.blogherald.com/ Yup, that's it.......news about......blogs.......

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g.

Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up
with your bl0g. 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Joho the Blog: No, I'm not keeping up with your blog .. Dear Blogger Letter .. David Weinberger

hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004138.html
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Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search

Google Launches Official Google Blog,
Not Blog Search 05/11/2004 09:24 AM
Yahoo! May 11 2004 2:11PM GMT

" Cerveja Blog!! O Blog que desce
red... Cerveja"

" Cerveja Blog!! O Blog que desce
red... Cerveja" 01/03/2005 10:35 AM

"布什总统的个人Blog"

"布什总统的个人Blog" 08/05/2004 03:56 PM

"bl0g"

"bl0g" 07/11/2004 09:32 AM

BLOG:CMS 3.2

BLOG:CMS 3.2 07/29/2004 04:49 PM
A Weblog system.

A bl0g for everyone

A bl0g for everyone 06/06/2004 11:55 PM
News.bbc.co.uk - Sun Jun 6, 12:48 pm GMT

Hip-hop bl0g hit?

Hip-hop bl0g hit? 01/26/2004 11:29 AM
BoingBoing's French connection Jean-Luc points us to the first "ill blog-vs.-sucka" weblog war song. "Will it be the first HipHop music hit about blogging? you can download the song there -- Now I know Why The Unicorn Cries -- and see the lyrics too."

you think your tiny sucky blog makin me feel fear?
I get more hits in a week than you get all year
you cry a tear cuz you're jealous about my fame
talk a good one but never call me out by name (...)
small time dropping small thoughts for small minds
up against THE GREATEST HIP-HOP BLOG OF ALL TIME!? (portentous echo)

Link. Yeah, boyeeeee!

What Not to Do When You Blog

What Not to Do When You Blog 12/09/2003 07:22 AM
Gothamist

gothamist.com/archives/2003/12/08/gothamist_notes_1_what_n ot_to_do_when_you_blog.php
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BLOG:CMS 3.1.4

BLOG:CMS 3.1.4 07/18/2004 03:59 AM
A Weblog system.

To Blog Or Not To Blog

To Blog Or Not To Blog 06/23/2004 10:24 PM
WebDevInfo Jun 24 2004 2:03AM GMT

Where we bl0g about

Where we bl0g about 09/11/2004 12:34 PM
Ethan Zuckerman has published the initial results of the alpha version of a project he's started, and it's pretty damn interesting. He's scraping NY Times articles and then checking which ones are being linked to in blogs. The raw results are depressingly unsurprising: We blog about the US, then about the US, with occasional digressions about the US....

My Blog 1.2

My Blog 1.2 06/06/2004 06:50 AM
A simple blog with with many advanced and unique features.

DRM bl0g

DRM bl0g 03/23/2005 02:53 AM
Cory Doctorow: The DRM Blog is a good blog for op-eds, news links and other resources for understanding DRM. I just added it to my RSS reader. Link (Thanks, Jimmy!)

Y!Q on my bl0g...

Y!Q on my bl0g... 02/07/2005 02:12 AM
I've just updated the template for my individual post pages to include Y!Q, which I wrote about on the Yahoo Search blog. Here's a screenshot: The results are pretty good in that one, huh? Adding Y!Q to your site is easy. If you're using MovableType, adding something like this to your template will give you what I've got on mine, using the post title as the "context" for the Y!Q search. First, in the document head: <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://yq.search.yahoo.com/javascript/yq.js"></script>.. .

Wu Blog No More

Wu Blog No More 08/22/2004 05:39 PM
This is the end of my stewardship of the Lessig Blog, and also my retirement from blogging, unless some new gig shows up. It has been a pleasure to meet many of you and I thank you for reading the blog in Lessig's absence. Those who want to get in...

bl0g bl0g bl0g bl0g bl0g

bl0g bl0g bl0g bl0g bl0g 08/10/2004 08:03 PM
dogblog, bogblog, fogblog, cogblog, logblog, zogblog, jogblog , yogblog, gogblog, wogblog, nogblog, vogblog, hogblog, smogblog, frogblog.

"em-bl0g.de"

"em-bl0g.de" 05/19/2004 10:25 AM

What, exactly, is a bl0g?

What, exactly, is a bl0g? 04/09/2005 02:38 PM
Many times I've heard the word "blog," and pondered its meaning. Now I ask you, oh reader, what you think it is. But there's some caveats to the discussion.

New bl0g

New bl0g 01/28/2004 02:32 PM
I've started off my new Corante blog — on how the Net is changing our democracy and politics — with a critique of Clay's provocative Dean meme. The new blog is called Loose Democracy, and I'm open to comments, suggestions, criticisms, unfunded mandates and recall initiatives. And please remind me of the 4,000 people I've left off my blogroll...I have problems creating lists ex nihilo. All I can promise you is that I will never make a mistake and I will never ever be wrong....
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