Well, for the first time in the Showcase‘s history, I had to invoke the what-to-do-in-the-event-of-a-tie rule. Both Blackfive – The Paratrooper of Love and PRC News came in with nine votes at the end of this week.
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Fixed
Almost fixed?
OK, I’m pretty sure I’ve identified and fixed the problem. How’s this for obscure: The way the Ecosystem works, at a high level, is that a job is submitted for each weblog which goes out and downloads the text of the blog’s front page, and then parses it to extract links. In debugging that routine, […]
Missed it by this much
Still not getting the power of the Internet: FoxNews has debunked the Hunting for Bambi story. Only problem? They are still running the original story, with no reference to the new piece proving it false. (And even worse, there is a reference from the new piece back to the old, disproven one…) New link via […]
Blog On!
Blogathon 2003 is on! So go visit Amish Tech Support, A Small Victory, and Meryl Yourish and throw some pledge dollars in to support Magen David Adom . You might as well, ’cause nothing works around here. I’ve now debugged the source of the Ecosystem problems down to the actual link-scanning job that hits each […]
Everything is Wrong
In case you are wondering why nothing is working around here, my friends at Hosting Matters moved my server (their choice, not mine) over last weekend, and I only just now realized that this meant I needed to reset all of the cron jobs that make the Ecosystem and other TTLB functions work. (To their […]
Smash on Morale & Tony
Hitchens Does Stand Up
The Poison Kitchen Wins
Congratulations to The Poison Kitchen for winning this past week’s New Weblog Showcase with the post Now It Can Be Told: Saddam’s Secret Weapons. Full results are: The Poison Kitchen: Now It Can Be Told: Saddam’s Secret Weapons ( 10 links) Sadly, No!: Only 16 words you say? ( 7 links) American Digest: The Sunday […]
Daily News?
Is anybody actually reading the Blogosphere Daily News? I thought it was pretty spiffy when I rolled it out a few weeks back, and still do, mostly. Still doesn’t function quite perfectly, but it does ok. Haven’t heard much reaction to it, though… thoughts? Feedback? Don’t make me do my Ben Stein impression…
Carnival #43
Ecosystem Discussion
Priorities & Frivolities Wins the Showcase
Congratulations to Priorities & Frivolities for winning this week’s New Webblog Showcase! Complete results are as follows: Priorities & Frivolities: T3 in 2003: Rise of the Political Machine ( 15 links) EconoPundit: Noted With Relief ( 12 links) Who Tends The Fires: The Beauty of Being Mom ( 10 links) SoonerThought: The General Who Would […]
Stop the presses!
Blogathon 2003: Magen David Adom
Ecosystem Redesign
A close Showcase
From the Sandbox
New Feature: Traffic Statistics!
So a few days ago I pointed out the work Steven over at Poliblog did to correlate blog traffic statistics with Ecosystem rankings, and I complained a bit that somebody should come up with a standard API for reporting traffic stats so that I could integrate them into the Ecosystem. Then I thought about it […]
Rush Limbaughtomy Wins the Showcase
Congratulations to Barry at Rush Limbaughtomy: his post GOD’s other Son George has brought him victory in this week’s New Weblog Showcase. Complete results are as follows: Rush Limbaughtomy: GOD’s other Son George ( 15 links) under the fire star: Chitra Talkies ( 10 links) Apropos of Nothing: Cat Hair Drama ( 7 links) HD […]