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07 July 2004   

 

America's War With Blogistan

The blog represents free speech in excelsis. Or does it? If the blog accepts advertising or maintains ties to institutions -- like, say, the Democratic Party -- then the freedom to say whatever you like can be sharply curtailed.
A blog doesn't have to be a community, particularly and open free speech community. It can be locked, with no commenting available, or the comments edited or deleted. This just seems like another 'what is a blog' article. I thought we'd figured that: a blog can be anything.
 

 Source: Wired News; 07/07/2004; 10:45:52.
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Eric asks if you can outsource weblogging?

Eric Mack: Can you outsource blogging's passion and loyalty?
It's even worse than that. What am I building here? A relationship network. Can you outsource that? Well, word would get around fast that the relationship had changed.
Translation: no.
Dumb question. Of course you need a real, authoritative person behind the blog. Otherwise the information becomes canned laughter without the comedian. How unfunny is that?
 

 Source: Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger; 07/07/2004; 10:45:46.
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Viewsonic's 23-inch VP2290b LCD puts even those new Apple displays to shame

trustedreviews.com checks out ViewSonic’s new ultrahigh-resolution VP2290b widescreen 23-inch LCD, which with a staggering 3,840 x 2,400 pixels, has more than twice as many pixels as Apple’s new 30-inch Cinema Display, and nearly four times as many pixels as Apple’s 23-inch counterpart. That’s enough pixels that you can look at eight or nine megapixel digital photos in their entirety without having to shrink them down at all.
  • £4,600
  • 9.2 megapixel
  • QUXGA
big monitor

Out of my reach, pity. But in a few years, when prices have dropped to... A few grand?

 

 Source: Engadget; 06/07/2004; 22:45:03.
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X % of email is Spam


85% of all email is spam. 83% of all email is spam. Between 80 and 90% of all email is spam. 80% of all email is spam. 76% of all email is spam. Between 64 and 78% of all email is spam. 64% of all email is spam. 63% of all email is spam. 60% of all email is spam. 52% of all email in 2004 will be spam. 50% of all email is spam. By 2006 98% of all email will be spam.
Some of the replies on the MeFi thread are worth noting:

But the upside is we'll be happily sitting in our mortgaged homes high on prescription drugs stroking our huge penises.

In 1977 there were 150 Elvis impersonators. By 1999 there were 35,000. If this rate of growth continues, by the year 2019, more than one third of the world's population will be Elvis impersonators.

 

 Source: MetaFilter; 07/07/2004; 09:45:29.
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Is PHP really more scalable than JSP?

Russell Beattie: Friendster's switched from JSP to PHP.
Is this a good thing? I mean, they're the guys with 9 million members, a large majority bitching about sluggish response times, etc. so they should know, but it seems awfully strange to me

Who's the biggest, fastest server beast in the jungle?

 


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