Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The end of month blog stats
Somehow or another May 2004 has been the busiest month for my server thus far. Sitemeter recorded about 45,000 visitors with 56,000 page impressions. Webalizer recorded 63,000 visitors, 213,000 hits and used 6.2Gigs of my 7Gig bandwidth. I’ve only just upgraded from 5Gigs a month. Time to see about going to 10Gigs. I find the…
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Sudan genocide
Ingrid has been doing some sterling work on the problems in the Sudan. As Glenn Reynolds would say, keep scrolling.
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Photos of Ireland
Chris has been posting some very nice photos from his travels in Ireland – shame I couldn’t meet up with him on this occassion, but definately next time.
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The Secrets of Surveillance: Elaine Cassel
Elaine Cassel writes a piece pointed to by Slashdot, telling the story of how internet usage in the US is monitored. Heavy stuff going on with one ‘John Doe’, the ACLU and the PATRIOT Act. In a memorandum to the court, the ACLU wrote that the statute allowing the broad use of National Security Letters…
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5th International Symposium on Online Journalism
Slashdot points to the 5th International Symposium on Online Journalism, and some interesting research papers on blogging that were published recently. I’ll have to take a closer look later.
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Dino impact gave Earth the chill
Evidence has been found for a global winter following the asteroid impact that is thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Rocks in Tunisia reveal microscopic cold-water creatures invaded a warm sea just after the space rock struck Earth. The global winter was probably caused by a pollutant cloud of sulphate…
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Blog-only news diet
Bernie links to a story about a guy that will be relying solely on blogs for his news intake. I have spent time doing it before – the analysis in the blogosphere is second to none. Steve Rubel is the guy who has set himself the challenge, should be curious to see how the quiz…
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Comparing blogging software
A good comparison of blogging software available out there right now…some MT users appears to be moving to WordPress after the version 3.0 pricing scandal.
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I am not a blogaholic, I am not a blogaholic….
Dan Drezner with a funny story from the NY Times… To celebrate four years of marriage, Richard Wiggins and his wife, Judy Matthews, recently spent a week in Key West, Fla. Early on the morning of their anniversary, Ms. Matthews heard her husband get up and go into the bathroom. He stayed there for a…
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Back Seat Drivers one year on
The lads over at Back Seat Drivers have just had their first birthday. Well done lads – its almost going into year three for me. Jon and Dick always have interesting posts – and I have gotten in the occasional argument, but always good natured – a pleasure to read them every other day. Karlin…
Got any book recommendations?