Tag Archives: The Web

The Market Sets Prices, Not The Supplier

Murdoch says papers should charge on Web – Yahoo! News Robert Murdoch believes that newspapers will have to start charging people for access to their online editions. That’s well and good, so long as the laws of demand and supply balance at a point where that works. But so far, that isn’t working. In today’s [...]

Behind The Scenes Of An Outlier

Yesterday when I published Gipsie Ranney’s white paper “ Remembering Nummi” I did so because I thought she made some points that others would be interested in. Let me take you behind the scenes of WordPress. One of the things this little program makes available is a stats tracker. This is the graph of daily [...]

Adapt, Evolve

I encountered a new level of sophistication in comment spam engines today. This one actually hosts a “blog” of its own. The engine parses quotes from other blogs, posts them as comments in those blogs and links back to itself. On its host site, it looks like a “blog” but, in reality, it is nothing [...]

A Watershed of Sorts

I suppose it is some kind of rite of passage for a blog when the spam-bots finally find it and start commenting. I had my first three today in the moderation queue.