Blowback: The Cost And Consequences of American Empire plus War And Conflict In The Post-Cold War, Post-9/11 Era

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Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices

Belarus post to install public internet
access terminals in village post offices 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
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Washington Post Poll: Just four in 10
Americans gave the president positive
marks for his handling of Iraq, the
lowest since he launched the conflict in
March 2003. And Just Who are Those Bird
Brains? Point Them Out to Us! 5/25

Washington Post Poll: Just four in 10
Americans gave the president positive
marks for his handling of Iraq, the
lowest since he launched the conflict in
March 2003. And Just Who are Those Bird
Brains? Point Them Out to Us! 5/25 05/25/2004 05:23 AM
poll

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this post at Command Post

this post at Command Post 12/14/2003 01:41 PM
excellent news roundup .. Saddam .. CP

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American Empire?

American Empire? 01/26/2004 10:20 AM
PO WER RANGERS: Did the Bush Administration create a new American empire—or weaken the old one? The left's favorite blogger, Talking Points Memo's Joshua Michah Marshall has been published in this week's New Yorker.

the one where i post about E3

the one where i post about E3 06/05/2005 10:54 PM
That sinus thing I had last week is trying very hard to move into my chest. Im exhausted after being...

Post #4,000

Post #4,000 06/22/2005 01:56 AM

Well, here we are at #4,000. This puts us just 1,000 posts away from our stated goal of 5,000. Along with the 4,000 posts, we have 6,050 comments as of this writing, and that's very cool. We appreciate all the interaction everyone has with the site.

Interestingly, we hit 2,500 posts exactly one year ago today. That means our daily post count is about 4.1 (almost 6 without weekends). This means we'll hit 5,000 posts early next spring, which is always what I figured. We'll have some contest or something when that happens and hopefully give some stuff away.

So as long as we're celebrating a blog posting, here's a list of some of the best and more interesting posts of the last 4,000:

Most Commented Posts

• Our post about Fake Escrow Sites (which spawned its own site which has been pretty quiet) got 152 comments
• The famous Bill Gates philanthropy post at 108.

Both posts have had their comments shut down since. The Bill Gates post was the first post I ever did this on — in fact, I had to go look up the exact template tags to do it.

When this site was deanebarker.net, there was actually a post about politics that got over 300 comments. (Although that's cool, about every post at Rosie O'Donnell's site gets over 300 comments — this one got almost 2,000 comments, in fact. You see, that's the trick to getting a lot of comments — become a famous lesbian.)

Longest Posts

• The Josh Clark interview, at over 5,000 words, is the longest. But that doesn't really count, since I didn't write most of it.
• This article on Web usability that I wrote back in 2000 (and published in 2003) is the next longest (read it with a grain of salt, remembering it was written five years ago, which is 100 years ago in Net time).
• Third place is the The Building of Basecamp Review.

Shortest Posts

• The Geek Test at 77 characters
• The recent post on Goo gle Site Seeing at 84 characters (Dave is a man of few words, it turns out).

Posts With the Most Prominent Links

• Two entries — RSS for Credit Card Activity and Styli ng RSS Feeds — got linked to from Scripting News on consecutive days.
• Three entries — the legendary Bill Gates, Philanthropist post, th is one about spilled ketchup from earlier today, and one other one which I forget — got linked to from Boing Boing.
• The Building of Basecamp Review got a link from Kottke.
• Dave had a couple linked to from AppleInsider and MacInTouch, but I can't remember which ones (sorry, Dave).

Any one of those links mentioned is worth 5,000 page views, easily.

My Favorite Posts

• Do Yourself a Favor and Stop Learning, about the hazards of shiny objects, was probably linked to from more sites around the Net than any other. It's still just as true today as it was when I wrote it. (Every time Joe wants me to try Rails, I should have him go read this post.)
• Content Management as a Marriage is very similar, and I find myself nodding in agreement everytime I read it again.
• This post about (and called) Open and Closed Content Management is another good one that expresses the thought I was getting at awfully well. Additionally, the comments on this post introduced me to ez publish which means that I never have to write another content management system, which is cool.
• These two: Enterprise Architecture: Top-Down Makes My Head Hurt and Problems No Platform Will Fix, are pretty similar and I believe in them more and more every day.
• Smarty as a Sub Language is the post that most makes me wanna crack open a code editor.
• Adding User Defined Fields in Movable Type was probably my best technical contribution to the blogosphere. However, Joe's JavaScript Autocomplete/Intellisense post will likely eclipse this as he's already received a couple rounds of fantastic contributions from people.
• This post announcing the birth of my second daughter (third child overall) was also awesome for obvious reasons.

Most Glaring Example That The World Is Ending
Some of the comments on this post, easily. I mean, come on people — do I have to spoon feed the sarcasm?

The Post Most Likely To Get Me Sued
I've been watching the comments on the Geek Squad post pretty carefully. Nothing has gotten out of hand, and there's a lot of good discussion going on, so I'm keeping my hands off for now. However, it still makes me a little nervous.

Only Post I've Ever Been Threatened About
There were some comments on this post about Convea that I was asked to take down under threat of "legal action." I'm still bitter about it, but I wussed out and folded.

(Some long-time readers will remember that this site came down for six weeks in early 2003 when I was threatened over another post, but it was a completely different site back then, so that doesn't really count. And I deserved that one.)

Posts That Bummed Me Out The Most
Two of them, actually — both pretty recent.

• The comments of th is one about the new design
• The comments on thi s one that accused me of tricking people into clicking on AdSense links.

Both sucked, but they are what they are. People have every right to express their opinions.

Most Pissed Off I've Been While Writing A Post
This one, about the comment spammer. That's also the closest we've come to getting taken offline.

Post Containing the Most Hyperlinks
This one. There's 40 of them in here. Markdown rules.

So, what's next? Some ideas for the future:

Ask Gadgetopia
I'd like to provide a place for readers to ask questions of the community that's built-up around this site. Not specific "debug my code" questions, but general questions about the best way to do something. There's a lot of knowledge out there I know some people would like to tap.

Reader Survey
We did a survey a long time ago. I'd like to do another one to find out who's reading. Total vanity, but still.

Let's Give Stuff Away...
I'm getting an increasing number of people offering me review copies of stuff (software, games, books...) in exchange for some publicity. I've started asking for two copies: one for me to review, and one for me to give away to someone. However, I can't figure out a good way to give the stuff away.

Let's Go Somewhere...
I'd like to send Dave or Rob to MacWorld, or me or Joe on this PHP cruise. I'd need to know, however, that we can provide some unique value. A lot of sites send people to these things — can we provide something different enough to make it worthwhile?

So, that's it. I'm sure I'll forget about post #4,500, so I'll see you number 5,000. I'll be here — I hope you will too.

"this post"

"this post" 02/10/2004 09:26 PM

"the post"

"the post" 05/12/2004 04:03 AM

First Post!

First Post! 12/29/2003 11:55 PM
"We’re just getting started here and we’ve got a few things happening: What the heck is this? WiFiCharlottetown.org (this website) is all setup and should provide a central resource for WiFiCharlottetown info and discussion. Hardware is on the way! We have ordered a few Sputnik..." (100 words - posted by steven) 7 replies

First XML-RPC Post

First XML-RPC Post 12/01/2002 11:58 AM
This is my first post using my XML-RPC server. I hope it works because if it does it'll be quite good for expansion.

This post has been ignored

This post has been ignored 06/05/2005 11:10 PM
With her new Aggregator 2.0, Jeneane is able to ignore up to 1,500 blog posts an hour......

I first post, therefore I am

I first post, therefore I am 01/16/2004 11:05 AM
ePhilosopher. Slashdot got drunk with Sartre, and this is what happened. I have a cold. I am not happy today....

Post It!

Post It! 08/28/2004 04:25 AM
Sitting up late, chatting with Sifry about his DNC stories and conventions and how to cover them and wondering if the real RNC story might be outside the building, and reading the latest on war videography from a moonlight ing Salam Pax. My personal bet is that New York will be noisy but nonviolent, both the demonstrators and the cops have too much to lose by being scary on TV. Still, I bet there’s some first-rate theater in the streets. So, here’s an idea. Go to Manhattan. Get yourself a high-end PowerBook laptop with a bunch of batteries and a FireWire and USB ports and enough WiFi service provider accounts that you’re always online... then, print up a sandwich board that says Your Pictures And Movies... On The Web Now! and walk around, and then, if something happens, it won’t be film at eleven, it’ll be right now.

Can't add? Can't post.

Can't add? Can't post. 12/17/2004 06:28 PM
I've been taking a few pokes at attempting to fend off some of the comment spam on my blog.

The first is obviously to turn off comments altogether, but I very much enjoy the conversation some of my posts garner and find making the channel one-way unacceptable.

The second is to go through occasionally and clean things up. I must say that this option is getting rather tiresome rather quickly.

I know there are typekeys, logins, email confirmations, image recognition, and other such methods, but I'm not overly fond of any of them.

So, here I am noodling.

And I couldn't help coming back to something I've always been fond of: maths. What if I were to raise the barrier to posting just ever so slightly to ward off at least the dumber of the bots using a simple addition problem? If you you're on the individual page for this post or click the permalink (that's the # if you're reading this on my site proper), you'll notice I've added a simple x + y = to the bottom of my writeback form. The numbers are chosen at random between 0 and 9 and "hidden" in variables x and y. Get the addition problem wrong, and your post is rejected. The logic (such as it is) is handled by a minor adjustment to my Blosxom writeback plugin.

I know this probably isn't some new idea (people have been talking about this with respect to sending email, adding a calculation tax to the sender's client and computer). But I put it out there as a first prod and look forward to any feedback you might have.

Of course there are a couple of known issues right off the bat:

• This doesn't extend to trackbacks and thus I'm still wide open to trackback spam. The only solution, should something useful be found for comments, would be to build this into a trackback spec, but I leave this as an exercise for further down the road.
• If this were to be baked into every Blosxom site or, indeed, every blog, spammers would soon figure it out (it's not hard and they're not as stupid as you'd hope they'd be), and the bots would learn a little math. A couple of thoughts popped into my head around this:
  1. Use hashed variable names for x and y, the hash generated based upon a site-/blog-specific key and some other bit of algorithmic sugar, limited time use, and so forth.
  2. Employ a one-off to embed the two numbers in your page, post, or URL. If in the post itself, call it out somehow that's obvious to human readers.
  But, as I said, this was more a pop than a proper noodle.

Again, this might have been thought of before, might simply be a stupid idea, or might be sheer brilliance ;-) ... we shall see.

"The Washington Post says"

"The Washington Post says" 05/26/2004 07:51 PM

"The Command Post"

"The Command Post" 03/20/2003 08:52 PM

"Washington Post "

"Washington Post " 12/16/2003 08:48 PM

The New York Post

The New York Post 08/30/2004 07:34 PM

I've never actually picked up and read The New York Post. I first heard about it when their front page story was: "Kerry's Choice, Dem picks Gephardt as VP candidate" and now this.

Xeni @ Boing Boing

Reader Mike Harris says, "The New York Post is reporting that it was spray paint, instead of a water-soluble chalk mixture. Users might want to ask that they correct their reporting. The online edition/news editor's name is Chris Shaw, at cshaw@nypost.com."

I wonder where they get their facts?

Comment - TrackBack

Last Post in Radio

Last Post in Radio 06/28/2004 10:08 AM

It's getting too frustrating trying to get Radio to publish what I'm writing, so this will probably be the last post until a new solution is in place. Hopefully nothing too important will come up during that time. Thanks for your patience.

The Command Post

The Command Post 03/20/2003 02:10 PM
The Command Post

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This is not a fetish post

This is not a fetish post 08/19/2004 02:38 PM
To appease to the handful of BoingBoing readers who protested yesterday's overabundance of marginally worksafe gadget/girl fetish photo posts, I offer -- here it comes, folks -- a Japanese collector's huge, obsessively-organized gallery of backpacker cooking stoves. Guaranteed 100% babe-free. But it's a big internet; chances are that someone, somewhere is super-turned-on by this. Link (Thanks, jared).

The difference between POST and GET

The difference between POST and GET 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

How important is the ability to tell the difference between data sent by POST and data sent by GET (i.e in the query string) when developing web applications? Some web frameworks (such as PHP) provide separate mechanisms for accessing POST and GET data. Others (such as Python's cgi module) provide a single interface to form information that doesn't distinguish between the two. I already have a strong opinion on this but I'm going to leave it open for discussion here for a bit before weighing in.

Post-War Reconstruction

Post-War Reconstruction 12/19/2003 01:17 PM
A comparison of post-war Iraq to post-war Germany.

Usenet post

Usenet post 12/08/2003 09:29 PM
According to a Usenet post, Octigabay is using Infiniband as their cluster interconnect with a custom HCA that attaches directly to the HyperTransport port on the Opteron. This allows them to get under 2us MPI latency when sto ck IB HCAs get 6us.

"post is excellent"

"post is excellent" 04/16/2004 03:38 AM

"wash post "

"wash post " 06/23/2004 03:00 AM

Test API Post

Test API Post 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I hope this works....

Test API Post 2

Test API Post 2 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
I hope this one works too....

How To Post to a Feed

How To Post to a Feed 04/16/2004 07:47 PM
Suppose I want to use one of the blogging APIs, for example, the under-development Atom Publishing Protocol, to post an entry to a blog or whatever, with the expectation that this is going to show up in my syndication feed. Suppose that the entry includes some pictures or movies. Should be easy, people do this all the time, right?...

PHP-Post Exploit

PHP-Post Exploit 03/19/2005 03:10 AM
Terencentanio Enache (Mar 18 2005)

CA COO Says Not Running for CEO Post

CA COO Says Not Running for CEO Post 05/23/2004 07:43 PM
Boston Globe May 23 2004 11:08PM GMT

Post-Tsunami: How to Help

Post-Tsunami: How to Help 12/29/2004 02:32 PM
What can you do to lend a hand in the wake of tragedy?

Web Exclusive: Post(er) Boy

Web Exclusive: Post(er) Boy 04/12/2004 06:13 AM
Robert Scoble, a technical evangelist and active blogger at Microsoft, offers tips and tactics that can help your company thrive and survive on the Web.

From the Washington Post

From the Washington Post 07/12/2004 01:03 AM
nterview today

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AMR: IT now in the post-technology era

AMR: IT now in the post-technology era 11/19/2003 05:48 PM
Companies are more focused than ever on business processes and saving money, rather than on technology, according to AMR Research.

"very concise post"

"very concise post" 08/09/2004 02:41 AM

Post-MWSF

Post-MWSF 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
Ah. I am blogging this from the exit gate at the SFO while waiting for boarding. Gotta love these hotspots...

A Ghost, This Post

A Ghost, This Post 04/09/2004 04:03 PM
This post is a ghost. It will shimmer and fade; literary wraith. It's posted by the new version of Blogger, not yet seen. Fleeting? I'm not sad, its passing is purposeful. It will, I imagine (and fear), be replaced by others.
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