I’m with Kevin Burton on this.
The more restrictions they place on air travel the more our economy will suffer – which means the terrorists win.
Technorati Tags: Terrorism, capitalism, ryanair, economic+terrorism, relative+victory, Political+capital, politics
I was considering the amazing popularity of WordPress (the hosted service as well ad the application), now the agreed upon champ in the blogging world. I was considering this in light of the fact that when I started blogging in the dark ages of 2004, MoveableType and TypePad were the undisputed champs.
When did the shift occur? What was the watershed moment?
It hit me. it was the day Scoble announced his blog would be a WordPress.com blog. [here]
Now, Scoble may not be as large a force in the blogging world anymore, but that day in October 2005 when he made that announcement sealed the fate of SixApart. The buzz momentum swung to WordPress and all of the yummy goodness therein.
The SixApart/MoveableType/TypePad fiends out there are likely to flame me, but the latest release of MoveableType received the response usually reserved for yet another Who farewell tour. It is bloated, complex and difficult to manage.
On the other hand, I can install and/or update WordPress in less than 5 minutes and no one would notice a thing.
I wonder what the next seminal blogging tool will be?
Technorati Tags: Scoble, MoveableType, Moveable+Type, SixApart, Six+Apart, TypePad, WordPress, photomatt, Matt+Mullenweg
Apparent using HTTP compression alongside HTTP/1.1 will cause certain versions of MSIE 6.0 to implode. [here]
I personally think this was because the NSA power shortage was making it too hard for the spooks to snoop on compressed Web traffic. [here]
Via: Port80 Software
PS: No, I won’t turn off compression because Microsoft did something really stupid.
Technorati Tags: Internet+Explorer, Internet+Explorer+6.0, MSIE, Port80+Software, HTTP+Compression, Web+Performance, Microsoft, NSA
Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.
Via: GMSV
I have this search set up to deliver the things that Google’s Blogsearch finds out in the blogosphere containing Moleskine in it. Sometimes, it delivers some real gems, like Joe Lavin’s The Condensed Guide to Looking Like a Writer (found via Professor Barnhardt’s Journal).
The take-away quote from this article?
At the very least, costing $15 a pop, the Moleskine can certainly put the “starving” back into starving artist.
Read it. It’s a reminder that having the tools doesn’t make the owner an artist.
This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies of British Columbia, this immediately got my attention. The story discusses the explosive growth of Internet businesses in the now heavily wired interior of Washington State; the story focuses on the are around Twisp, Winthrop and the Methow Valley.
Until you have been in this area, and I have, you don’t get the possibility of winter isolation. The story talks about how these places are four hours from Seattle; what they neglect to mention is that this is 4 hours in the period between April 15 and October 15, depending on snow.
The direct westerly route to Seattle from these locations passes through the Cascades. Through the extremely high and snowy Cascades.
Samantha and I took a spur of the moment detour through this little part of heaven, pausing a night in a campground in Twisp. Right on the river. When we woke up the next morning, I remembered how much I missed those early morning moments in the mountains.
Twisp is far more isolated than Golden, BC, or any of the other towns that we passed through on our trip this summer. But it is a reminder to us all that place is important. Not because we have to be there, but because it is where we are at home.
I have lived in the Valley. I have lived in Massachusetts. But neither has been home.
And to me, home is worth more than anything.
Technorati Tags: GigaOm, Seattle+Times, Twisp, Winthrop, Methow+Valley, Washington+State, Home, Broadband, Freedom, Om+Malik
The new GrabPERF Agent code, with support for plain text or regular expression content matching, is now in production on all active measurement agents.
I added one more feature before I rolled out the new code: when a content match error occurs, the server headers and HTML content for 14 days.
I have not exposed this feature yet, but will be doing so in the next few days.
Again, thanks to the GrabPERF community for your continued support.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web+performance, Text+match, Content+match, Agent+upgrade
Michael Arrington’s latest Crunch product, CrunchGear, is getting beat up this morning.
Ouch!
In the past, these would not appear as errors, but the new text match feature in GrabPERF is working like a charm. The new code is up on 3 of the 5 measurement agents, and the remaining 2 should be updated by tomorrow.
Technorati Tags: GrabPERF, Web+performance, CrunchGear, TechCrunch, Michael+Arrington
July 25, 2006 at 19:48:24 GMT.
That’s the last time that the Technorati bot indexed my blog.
I am confused, because of all the sites out there, my blog should be pretty easy for Technorati to index — this server, as well as the GrabPERF servers is hosted in Technorati’s racks. Theoretically, the bot should be able to index my blog without leaving the building.
I posted something this morning, and IceRocket, Google Blogsearch, Ask.com Blog Search all have it.
I am wondering if anyone else is noticing this.
Technorati Tags: Technorati, Tags, Indexing, bots, search, blog+search
It was to be expected. On Moleskinerie there was a post that highlighted that the latest Moleskines are “Made in China”. The response from the Moleskine fan community has been overwhelming: we want the old books back.
China is responsible for a large number of the consumer products that we use today. However, there is an expectation that Moleskines were better than a mass-produced throwaway consumable. I imagine we all had images of a workshop filled with dedicated craftsmen, carefully hand-binding each notebook with absolute focus and attention to detail.
Sorry folks: these books have always been mass-produced. What is irksome even to me is that Modo e Modo (or their new French corporate masters) is no longer making a pretense of selling a quality journal that is unique and worth posessing. An item that sets the owner apart as someone who takes their notes, sketches and writings seriously, as thoughts worth dedicating to a medium that will last beyond them.
It’s all about brand. And the Moleskine notebooks are the icon of the social networking brand growth vision held by so many companies today. The core, dedicated following evangelizes the product, drawing more people to try the product and love it. As with so many things, will popularity denude and degrade the product?
If it is true that the latest production runs of Moleskines are originating in China and are of a lower quality than the community has come to expect, nay, demand, of this fine piece of crafting, then the no longer have the cachet, and are no longer unique, and will die the death of a million blog posts.
I am voting for the Rite in the Rain notebooks to be the next iconoclastic notebook. The unique yellow covers and indestructible paper have made me think twice about this addiction to Moleskines. They are books designed to be noticed (try finding a black notebook in the woods after it’s fallen out of your pack!), and stand out in a coffee shop, especially one filled with darkly dressed artist types.
Moleskine, I am willing to give you a chance. The community wants to hear your answer.
Oh, and Rite in the Rain notebooks are made in Tacoma, WA!
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