Month: July 2005
BlogsNow Version 2 started with a clean and new database. During it’s one year of operation Version 1 had seen close to 7 Million weblogs. BlogsNow follows ping lists like most other tools. These list became more and more a resource for spammers to inject their content. BlogsNow Version 2 jumped from three to almost four Million weblogs within one week. It turned out that two IP addresses alone had created 600,000 new ‘blogs’. All of them made just to spam whomever they can.
Many websites tracking weblogs will claim how many weblogs they track. It appears as if those 11 Million you find right now are actually an accumulation of all weblogs seen, regardless if active or not. And, at least a certain amount, of bogus blogs only created for spam should be takn into account.
Those inflated numbers are being used wherever people like to put an extra boost on the blog phenomen. There are definitely millions of blogs.
But the active blogging community may be just a few hundred thousand people.
The boom was driven by record truck sales, which increased 69 percent. Chevrolet's Silverado full-size pickup led the industry as its sales more than doubled, GM said.
"We see this as an indication that America's desire for trucks and SUVs is still a strong force in the marketplace," GM vice president of marketing Mark LaNeve said.
sure, that’s we need right now: More SUVs and big trucks.
Great consumers, not the smartest workers though.
On the right you can find a Car factory, probably the only visible corporate logo in google maps:
BMW museum
Just added six more views to BlogsNow. Most of the Version 1 views are back now.
And then some.
see for your self
Violence in games is a good thing is the title. And it is written by a person who went to Columbine.
This get’s people to read it. I don’t see an satisfactory argument for the claim of the title in the text. But it illustrates a couple of aspects about gaming. And that makes it worth the read: Games are what is surrounding young people. If you grew up a while ago like me you have no idea what that really means.
if you are in a different country, then google really really wants to show your their localized version. Which has different search results and, for my purposes, pretty much does suck.
Adib< /a> pointed me a while back to this fix: http://www.google.com/ncr will fix the problem and let’s me use google.com even if I am not in dot-com-land. Phew.