Monthly Archives: July 2003

All TTLB functions appear to be back to normal. Let me know if you still see any anomolies, but methinks everything should be OK now…

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Christopher Hitchens doing stand-up comedy? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Starts slow, in my opinion, but stick around for the Q&A session; Hitchens is at his best going off-the-cuff working from the crowd.

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 […]

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…

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 […]

Spoons is back!

Well, this day had to come: the Ecosystem is now split into multiple pages. Having all 3,000+ weblogs on the front page was getting just too unwieldy — that single page was over 600 KB, which was killing my bandwidth costs, and not that much fun to wait for to load, either. So now the […]

It’s one of the tightest races we’ve seen yet over in the Showcase this week — any one of several blogs could come out on top. So if you haven’t yet voted, do it! And if you don’t know how, read this.

LT Smash: It really all boils down to this: Just about everyone here would rather be at home right now

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 […]

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 […]