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@rklau What church? Which bishop?
Sorry, just replied on Twitter. Trinity Lutheran in Pleasanton, CA. Bishop Mark Holmerud.
- Rick Klau
Rick- Sounds serious; with a happy outcome. What happened? Church controversies can be some of the most painful. I've been through a few myself. If this is too personal, no need to respond. But please accept my sympathies. Best, Rich
- Richard Leiter
from email
That might of been me. Was it about an API?
- zeroinfluencer
No, it was someone trying to figure out how to add contacts. I just thought the initial IM "I have a question for you about Aardvark" was pretty humorous.
- Rick Klau
Aardvark recursion...
- Christopher A Carr
Reading George Orwell's 1948 essay on pamphlets. Reads like a modern-day essay about blogs. Fascinating. (More: http://tins.rklau.com/2003...
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Not that I'm an expert on pamphlets, but in http://tins.rklau.com/2003...) <~ the parenthesis broke your link: http://tins.rklau.com/2003...
- Sebastian
Yep. Brizzly included the parenthesis to bit.ly... I deleted the tweet and re-did it, pointing instead to a site where you can see Orwell's essay. I'm writing an opinion piece for a big website (stay tuned!) that goes into more detail on this...
- Rick Klau
Happy Friday - http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
I do not like the feedproxy.google.com URI because it violates the HTTP protocol. It tries to hijack the content provided by the destination URI http://www.fakesteve.net/2009... with a 302 redirect. It must perform a 301 redirect because feedproxy.google.com/... does not serve the content, and never will. Of course, the post is awesome, as usual ;)
- Sebastian
@Sebastian - there's no hijacking here... it's only in place because the original publisher (in this case, Dan Lyons) wants it there to capture click-through data. Further, everyone who uses this feature has the choice of using a 301 or a 302, so this is entirely under their control.
- Rick Klau
Fair point, but capturing click-through data can be done with a 301 too, hence the 301 should be the default HTTP response code. How many publishers are aware of the difference, or the setting at all?
- Sebastian
Well, since it's presented where they enable the feature, I'd assume most are aware of the setting. As to the difference, FeedBurner explains the difference in plain English (optimize for search, optimize for data).
- Rick Klau
Ok, I'm a fundamentalist ;) And you're right, the major search engines don't index feedproxy URIs.
- Sebastian
Glenn Beck uses big word but can't spell it -- which only makes the frigtards love him even more - http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
Oligarh... there's one letter missing!
- Louis Gray
Somehow, my small story on Blogger turning 10 hit the front page of Digg. It's a black art I will never understand.
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Only my second time ever.
- Louis Gray
:)
- sean percival
Good thing I don't care about traffic or ads, for gaming the system might make me focused on the wrong things. :)
- Louis Gray
You're just that good, dude.
- Rick Klau
It's not me, Rick... it's all Blogger.
- Louis Gray
No idea, Scott. I am not in charge. :)
- Louis Gray
who can tell? the "secret sauce" is a moving target...that's why they keep pissing off the power users. I wonder if people still sell front page access for $$$ ?
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
from Android
Congrats!
- Anne Bouey
Mazel tov. I guess. :)
- Elliott Ng
Who is astorygirl? Is she a valued Digger?
- John E. Bredehoft
Look here: http://friendfeed-media.com/843e457... Was Blogger Buzz hacked for a short moment?
- Ton Zijp
The same kind of black art dominates the Spanish equivalent Meneame. Well, in fact, it is "controlled" by a tight and nearly closed user community who knows the rules very well and manages the front page news stream.
- Jose Maria Pelaez
My guess is that the submitter is not a huge digg user, so the number of diggs required is much lower than what is required from top diggers.
- Rob Diana
Whoa!
- Charlie Anzman
I Love Blogger!! Super Tool for EZ Blogging + some Fab looking Templates + coloured Fonts without going thru the Programming Pain of Crappy WordPress!! Do U wanna Blog or do U wanna be a Programmer!! + Flickr works Brilliantly with Blogger - Super for getting some awesome Visuals into Blog Posts compared to Boring Text Posts on even more Boring White BG on WordPress!! ;))
- Billy Warhol
Hi lazy web. How many words are in the Library of Congress?
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- zeroinfluencer
Cross Bar Felony Rig Forcible Snag Sorry
- mcgrey
mcgrey - you have out done yourself this time.
- zeroinfluencer
@David Bausola LOLLOLOLL mon cheri!
- Lora Lufark
Hello Lora - long time no talk. How are you?
- zeroinfluencer
Fine, my dear (let's talk right here - just to annoy Rick Klau ROFLMAO)
- Lora Lufark
4 "the Library of Congress"
- Sebastian
Seb, it's not a capital T. :)
- zeroinfluencer
Ok, 3.5
- Sebastian
Good to hear from you, Lora. Whatcha been up to. I miss our little chats across Twitter
- zeroinfluencer
@Sebastian DEAREST!!!! Sorry David you've been bitten LOL
- Lora Lufark
doh!
- zeroinfluencer
In comparision to http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... reading live comments here is way funnier ;) Howdy Lora!
- Sebastian
O'K, O'K, O'K boys! 3.5 :))))))))
- Lora Lufark
Don't miss - just DO TWITS! :P <I miss our little chats across Twitter>
- Lora Lufark
Lora's decimal point is comma ... anyone remembers Cobol by the way?
- Sebastian
@Sebastian Is it better now? ;) <Lora's decimal point is comma>
- Lora Lufark
Lora - stop changing the past. A comma remains a comma!
- zeroinfluencer
Actually, user settings should rule the decimal point, so there's no need to edit ;)
- Sebastian
@David Bausola Uhuh. It was the last time! Promise! :)))))))))))
- Lora Lufark
I'll be watching...
- zeroinfluencer
Boys! LOOK! LOL http://twitter.com/SexySEO...
- Lora Lufark
You are such an exhibitionist!
- zeroinfluencer
Hey Lora! How did you figure I'm a spammer?
- Sebastian
WHO? Rick? Oh, yes LOL <exhibitionist>
- Lora Lufark
@Sebastian Thanks to my intuition ;)
- Lora Lufark
Be nice to Rick - I've met him - very cool guy.
- zeroinfluencer
BTW Rick, unfortunately you're no longer FB's PM - I'm dead sure you wouldn't have approved URI hijacking w/ 302 redirects ;)
- Sebastian
Women :( Intuition ;( Doh!
- Sebastian
@David Bausola WHAT?! very cool guy? and writing such cra.. mmm... stup... er.... things? http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009...
- Lora Lufark
I wish I had the slightest idea wtf was going on this thread. ;)
- Rick Klau
You should. You've started the mess.
- Sebastian
Mess is Lore.
- zeroinfluencer
Blame Lora :)
- zeroinfluencer
Wanna edit "lore" ?
- Sebastian
heh - nice, Sebastian
- zeroinfluencer
(not Less is More, or More is Less)
- zeroinfluencer
No one is perfect except me LOLOLOL so don't blame me :P
- Lora Lufark
Huh? Mess is lore?
- Sebastian
I blame perfection all the time.
- zeroinfluencer
Lore, all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- zeroinfluencer
Sorry, I'm lost in "particular subject" ...
- Sebastian
As in folklore - how we tell stories and over time - they morph and change, essentially becoming more messy and interesting, not refined and specific.
- zeroinfluencer
That will perfectly solve Rick's confusion!
- Sebastian
Ah, the wonder of FriendFeed!
- zeroinfluencer
@Rick Friendly exhibitionistic SPAM with some mess elements LOL <I wish I had the slightest idea wtf was going on this thread. ;)>
- Lora Lufark
Define: spam
- Sebastian
Spam is raw material waiting to find a valuable process.
- zeroinfluencer
Agree. So it can't be exhibitionistic.
- Sebastian
Is this why Facebook bought Friendfeed?
- Rick Klau
Stupid, Pointless Annoying Message .... maybe? *timidly*
- Lora Lufark
Rick - yup! :)
- zeroinfluencer
Seb, you can be exhibitionistic and awaiting a higher purpose!
- zeroinfluencer
(we really should move this off Rick's thread...)
- zeroinfluencer
Although Facebook bought FriendFeed FF is still vulnerable to spam. FB equals SM spam. Thoughts?
- Sebastian
@Rick Klau BTW dear http://friendfeed.com/davemcc... Really, why?
- Lora Lufark
You regret posting "morph and change, essentially becoming more messy and interesting, not refined and specific"?
- Sebastian
Seb, true, but FFeed's filters (Lists) handle view control really well. Or do you mean spam in comments?
- zeroinfluencer
Seb, why? - to regretting?
- zeroinfluencer
@David Why? O_O <(we really should move this off Rick's thread...) >
- Lora Lufark
Heh. In my book spam appears in all layers.
- Sebastian
Lora, I'm just saying, to be polite. Feels like we're hangin' out on his street corner.
- zeroinfluencer
Regretting: "(we really should move this off Rick's thread...)"
- Sebastian
@David Ah, that... @Rick Klau are you o'k with our little chat? if not just say @#$%! LOL
- Lora Lufark
oh, aha. I see. Mess is not everyone's favourite meal. Google does like to tidy up the best mess - teh interwebs.
- zeroinfluencer
With the PubSubHubbug deal Google opened a can of worms. Dealing with spam in the crawling cache might burn more resources now.
- Sebastian
This thread just made it to "the best of day" - <strike>spamming</strike> thread hijacking/flooding works ;)
- Sebastian
Seb, I bet you a tin of spam, they've got that covered.
- zeroinfluencer
Actually, I do enjoy developing stuff, although I do not apply each and every technique I've developed.
- Sebastian
"the best of day"?! Woo Hoo!!!!!!! @David we are all turned into spam machines. Do not argue! :)
- Lora Lufark
Lora - you are a Spime. http://www.boingboing.net/2005...
- zeroinfluencer
"They" did not cover each and every way to spam.
- Sebastian
Seb, Spam is just untimely messaging. Wave is a time machine..
- zeroinfluencer
"A Spime is a location-aware, environment-aware, self-logging, self-documenting, uniquely identified object that flings off data about itself and its environment in great quantities." brbrbrbrbr o_O
- Lora Lufark
Just post a link to an URI you own in such a thread and monitor it ... your URI will gain reputation
- Sebastian
Some spimes are more sexy than others.
- zeroinfluencer
@David Bausola quite unatunattractive, I would say LOL <spime>
- Lora Lufark
;-)
- zeroinfluencer
@David SEE ABOVE! "No one is...."<more sexy than others>
- Lora Lufark
@dearest +1 <your URI will gain reputation>
- Lora Lufark
Seb, but reputation is not does not equal attention. They are parallel processes, mutually beneficial, but not equal.
- zeroinfluencer
@David IT DOES <Seb, but reputation is not does not equal attention> at the mooooooooment
- Lora Lufark
Also, my cyberpunk activities WRT spreading <strike>spime</strike> spam are way more sexy than ... reputation from a search engine's perspective might me measured by link popularity, during the first phase of a peak even w/o looking at human traffic. IOW artificial reputation is worth spamming.
- Sebastian
WRT? IOW? <what do these stand for?>
- zeroinfluencer
Sorry. with regard to ... in other words
- Sebastian
Artificial reputation? (Nice phrase, what does it mean?)
- zeroinfluencer
BTW What is the opposite of natural? ROFL :)
- Lora Lufark
Separate attention (click throughs from SM participation) and indirect attention gained by (artificial) reputation. The latter means search engine traffic resulting from spammy or natural SM activities. For a definition of SM optimization please ask Lora ;)
- Sebastian
SM = Social Media?
- zeroinfluencer
Exactly.
- Sebastian
Lora... let's hear it.
- zeroinfluencer
Seb, you might be interested in this: http://code.google.com/p...
- zeroinfluencer
Thanks for the link. You're a spammer, or at least you develop tools for spammers ;-)
- Sebastian
@David Actually, I'm writing (am I?) .... o'k! trying to write SexySEObook
- Lora Lufark
Can't wait for the sales pitch of the SexySEO book ... more than 4096 scroll-down-clicks to reach the signup form?
- Sebastian
Seb, they are a little too toxic at the mo - they are still in development. I run a couple in private Twitter accounts to see the results. The idea behind them is to build an identity from demographics. They're weird to watch, but do work in a funny way - that is - they do RT similar users.
- zeroinfluencer
@dearest 4097 to be precise :)))
- Lora Lufark
Ooooh. Book. Nice. May I suggest the cover looks a bit like this: http://ff.im/6NJ64
- zeroinfluencer
Just tell me how I can attract a gazillion of Twitter users to RT my promotional links ;)
- Sebastian
The DGR (on mass) will do that. I was trying to work out how many RTs it would take to create a ripple of action across the whole of Twitter.
- zeroinfluencer
@David fie! It's a bit vulgar to my taste :)))
- Lora Lufark
(Undetectable) commercial Twitter waves ... neat. @ biz @ ev will love that. ;)
- Sebastian
Comment 101!
- zeroinfluencer
^ We just went through the 100 comment barrier.
- zeroinfluencer
oops
- Sebastian
Is Rick still lost? Maybe we should talk about blogspot spam?
- Sebastian
Seb, exactly. 99.9% of Twitter use is 'conversational' - where are the continuous mexican waves?
- zeroinfluencer
Yup. There's no such thing as bad traffic. IOW nearly everything is convertable.
- Sebastian
@Rick! Where are you, dear? *sobbing* @dearest anything interesting and fresh? <blogspot spam>
- Lora Lufark
I'm much more comfortable on Twitter, where 99% of the posts are about voting for SXSW panels, Robert Novak dying, or Brett Favre re-un-retiring. I thought I didn't understand FF before this, now I'm fairly certain I understand it even less.
- Rick Klau
I gave up on blogspot spam ages ago when I moved my blog to my own domain.
- Sebastian
ROTFLMFAO
- Sebastian
@Rick Klau ROFL
- Lora Lufark
Cant beat a spot of unlearning now and again!
- zeroinfluencer
@dearest http://twitter.com/SexySEO...
- Lora Lufark
Rick, Seb, Lora & mcgrey - I've gotta go. Lovely chatting this evening - I'm sure we'll pick this thread up again :)
- zeroinfluencer
Lora, could you please reverse the bg img?
- Sebastian
I have a feeling that in a few years, I will look back on this thread as the day I stopped grokking the Internet. It's been nice knowing y'all.
- Rick Klau
@dearest :P @David good night, sleep tight! :)
- Lora Lufark
Now I've to ask ... "grokking"?
- Sebastian
Thanks! You see, since FriendFeed is that educational, why it's that hard to grok the InterWeb ; <ducks>
- Sebastian
@Rick Sorry, dear but Cyxymu digital refugee?!?! Bullshit! *pardon my french*
- Lora Lufark
@Lora how so?
- Rick Klau
And isn't there some kind of rule about injecting serious conversation into a thread 100+ comments below the mindless stuff?
- Rick Klau
Isn't that FSB nowadays? (just read the title)
- Sebastian
@dearest Uhuh
- Lora Lufark
Will have to pick this up later; shuttle's arriving at the stop, have a meeting tonight for my son's Scouts troop. And will have to read your post in more detail before I can intelligently respond. Will check back in later.
- Rick Klau
@Rick Klau "see you" then :) Yes, pleasssse ;) <I can intelligently respond>
- Lora Lufark
Lora: "I really do believe that there are plenty of much more important things in this world than KGB and their attempts to take over this very world altogether". Exactly, they could possibly contradict my world domination plans.
- Sebastian
It's been nice arguing w/ y'all
- Sebastian
It was pleasue arguing w/ y'all :)
- Lora Lufark
@Lora - you lay the argument out in two steps: there was a DDoS attack, and that it was alleged to have been orchestrated by the KGB. My blog post spoke to the former, and I stand by those comments. As to the latter, I have no idea.
- Rick Klau
>>> RE: All Wordy And Junk Down, flagged as spam by Blogger <<<<
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Blogger has just marked our blog as a potential spam site and has temporarily disabled it. I have to fill out a review form to have it brought back up. I will do so immediately, but IMO this is a "one strike and your out" thing for Blogger to do and I would suggest we consider alternatives. Not that we have to, I'm just 1 voice out of 20 after all. Discuss here what you think. I'm away from the pc but will check back in from the phone.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from email
Spam? Moi? ... Yeah, I can see it.
- Steven Perez
DO ANYBODY NO HOW NOT BE SPAM?
- Micah Wittman
Not cool. Who are the powers that be? Can you get a direct line or will everything be all formy and junk?
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Meanwhile there is a terrible libelous blog that people have been flagging and no one at blogger will respond. What a bunch of idiots.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
did you consider wordpress.com? you know they have their own url shortener now, right?
- Chris Heath
I'm guessing it was just the speed of how it went up. 20 people added all in one day, with about ten or so posts coming in right after the other? Probably raised a flag in some machine somewhere. That's typical spammy activity. anyone actually looking at the content, however, would know different.
- pea
Yes I had a similar challenge with an earlier blog, it was a old health blog and I had changed the name, and had it redirect to the new blog, and I got the same issue. Wordpress could be an alternative but everyone who is an author there must also have a wordpress blog or they cannot be invited. There is also I think something like Weebly.com or something.
- Ubuntu101
Oh my. I will get this solved. Watch. :)
- Louis Gray
</takei> Sorry, couldn't resist =) I've submitted the request, but if your super powers can get it done Louis we'd all be grateful. Still likely looking for a new platform, but grateful nontheless.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Without paying, I think Blogger is as good as it gets, for that many authors.
- Matthew DeVries
Tina, I have put out the Bat signal. :)
- Louis Gray
I second Mr. DeVries - Blogger's probably the way to go for this many authors
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Hey Louis, is Rick Klau the batman in this scenario? I'm assuming so..
- Matt Cutts
Thx Louis - Bat signals are good :)
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
I'll host it for free if you want a wordpress blog or something else. You can either have the subdomain of your choice on wtfcat.com or supply your own domain name.
- April Russo (app103)
This happened once to my blog, too. I'm still not sure why. And that was after I had already been blogging there, at a relatively consistent rate, for a year or more.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
3 things I know of that will trip their automated system: 1. lots of links in every post. 2. almost everything is duplicate content (even excerpts) 3. lots of posts made in a short period of time Your first clue that you have tripped their system is when you have to solve a captcha whenever you post. If you continue to post, they shut you down and make you request a review. If you request it, then it's checked by a human.
- April Russo (app103)
Matt, yes, Rick is the secret weapon. He has followed up with me, and I sent his comments to Tina.
- Louis Gray
Would it be bad to publish a post right now? Should I wait?
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
I've not posted there today, but there were no capthcas as of yesterday. The content is still there and the blog is still viewable, you just have to click thru their scary possible TOS Violation page...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from fftogo
WTFingF?!?
- Joe Silence
To be an author on a wordpress.com blog, you don't have to have a wordpress.com blog. You do need to have a wordpress.com account, which is free. Again, no separate blog needed. : )
- Will-Pastor of FF
Tina, Louis, whomever, then do you think we hold off posting until this is sorted out?
- Amy℠
Hey-ya ~ that's the Matt I mentioned in my blog post that broke allwordyandjunk :)
- Micah Wittman
pffft, i posted a new entry anyway. DOWN IN FLAMES!!
- Joe Silence
Posting too...
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Hmmm, I don't see our All Wordy FF-Group updating ... does RSS get killed if you are marked as spam, or is it just being slow?
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
I just tried to comment on Dead Silence's blog post, but Blogger threw up a non-scrollable window that prevented me from entering the word verification. Argh....
- John E. Bredehoft
weird, cos i just succeeded in commenting on Micah's microwave oven post around the time i put up mine. WTF?
- Joe Silence
i just commented on it a second time to see if i could still do it.
- Joe Silence
commented on the Ice Cream Truck one as well. looks like commenting is fine if you're logged in to one of the account types Blogger recognises.
- Joe Silence
I have a Google account. Will try again.
- John E. Bredehoft
Well Tina I will follow your lead, let me know what you guys decide.
- Joe
Here's what happens to me when I try to comment http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- John E. Bredehoft
i got that once but i didn't have to scroll anywhere to type in the word and hit the button. WEIRD. i blame Blogger cos i'm on FF 3.5.2 as well. wish i knew the solution here but i don't. :(
- Joe Silence
From what was said on ffundercats this week I believe Posterous was ruled out for some reason but to me that is a great alternative - no no themes but I'm sure that'll come in time but it's certainly very active and appears that lots of us are already on there. Might I also suggest a FF group for pumping in the feed into and allowing comments? WordPress is another alternative but fiddly...
more...
- Kol Tregaskes
Blogger has been having some recent issues wrt automating the spam blog identification process. They really scared/pissed off people at the beginning of the month!!
- Chris Myles
Tina - Look at it this way. 1) Some of us never saw it roll out (IE: I had no idea it was there). 2 - You got some get rank on Google for 'All Wordy and Junk Down' ! (check it out :) 3 - I use Blogger for lots of projects beyond the obvious. Wouldn't be so fast to jump until one of the group wants to get all 'codey' with Wordpress.
- Charlie Anzman
Other alternatives to Blogger - Blog, Blogharbor, wikispaces
- TrafficBug
Yes, Posterous was ruled out for lack of theming, but theming is of course lower on the feature totem pole than "keeps the blog". I believe Dean has already setup a group on FF but as mentioned earlier the RSS isn't feeding in properly right now what with the issues at blogger. I appreciate the many offers for space for a self-hosted blog; once the group decides on the direction it wants to go to handle this we may take someone up on that offer.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Found the group here: http://friendfeed.com/allword...
- Kol Tregaskes
No word yet from Blogger, but we're all able to post and I was just able to make a comment so the blog is functioning as expected. Thanks for the group link, Kol: I had it somewhere in my DMs but have gotten so many the past day I hadn't dug it up yet =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ah. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I should have searched for it before suggesting it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
No worries Kol: I think most of us comment before searching. It's pretty normal.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Blogger to Posterous is a no brainer!!
- Chris Myles
Tina, ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I was just given orders to post about All Wordy and Junk on the DonationCoder.com forum, and it was pushed to the blog (and most likely the next newsletter) http://donationcoder.com/blog...
- April Russo (app103)
I saw the post April, and thank you for the mention =) I'm intrigued about who's giving those orders though!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
mouser ...the founder & site admin, and good friend of mine. I dropped a link in our IRC channel and he got all excited over it.
- April Russo (app103)
Oh, that's awesome! Thank you to both of you!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Wow.
- Joe
Hi all - sorry I wasn't able to check in here yesterday. Louis called and DM'd me (thanks, Louis!) and I routed this to our support team who whitelisted the blog so that the spam classification was removed (and won't be subject to similar false positives again). Now that I'm back from vacation I'll check in on why this got flagged at all. Sorry for the trouble, and be sure to keep my contact info handy if you have any other Blogger-related issues in the future. (rklau -at- google.com, @rklau on Twitter)
- Rick Klau
I'm sorry we wound up bothering you while you were on vacation, Rick, but we really do appreciate you taking the time to have this looked at. Thanks again!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Another reason Friendfeed RULES. There are people here who can just get stuff done. :)
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Very cool stuff from Louis and Rick (and maybe another reason we need to keep FF separate from FB ??!!) ... Just sayin'
- Charlie Anzman
"I love the smell of false positives in the morning" ;) - but seriously, great work everyone who was on top of this.
- Micah Wittman
The Gingrich Comeback Plan for Palin - http://politicalwire.com/archive...
Step 1: stop the crazy. Step 2: ??? Step 3: get elected. What could go wrong?
- Rick Klau
Google Slaps Banners on Blogger Dashboard - http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2009...
Steve, the ads are supposed to be targeted to the post that was written - so it *should* be targeted. If it's not, that means something's wrong. I'll look into it. (I'm the PM on Blogger.) Thanks for pointing it out.
- Rick Klau
YouTube - JK Wedding Entrance Dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Where's the Google Reader button for ZOMG teh awesome? Love this.
- Rick Klau
Sam Raimi set to direct World of Warcraft movie (Update: It's official!) - http://www.joystiq.com/2009...
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENKINS!!!!!!!!!!!
- Rick Klau
perhaps leroy will cameo
- stevemcghee
THANK YOU! - http://digslifeofthejetsetter....
I can't believe how many Spam comments exist.. Maybe Blogger could flag their accounts, that _might_ get them to knock it off. What exactly are they thinking?
- Chris Myles
Chris - those aren't spam (well, mostly), it's just a colorful crowd. :) The blog was featured prominently on a show on MTV earlier this week.
- Rick Klau
It's the other blogspot bloggers repeating their blog URL over and over that gets to me!! Bloggers who do that should be flagged.. it's just not right. What I love about the FF environment is spammers get booted.. gone!!
- Chris Myles
BTW It IS very cool the site is picking up so many followers. It would be interesting to study how they use the GFC/Blogger integration.
- Chris Myles
According to @Blogger my blog is marked as spam, think that's an indication that I should consider moving to another platform
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YES!
- Shevonne
This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked. This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.
- Joe Dawson
Self-hosted WordPress blog will be the fix for that
- Shevonne
I have admired WordPress for a while but always been worried about the migration, hosting and maintaining!
- Joe Dawson
Thanks for letting me know, Joe. I'm checking in with our support team to see what could have tripped the flag; will get back to you asap. (I'm a PM on Blogger.).
- Rick Klau
Thanks Rick :)
- Joe Dawson
I just removed the spam classification from your blog, Joe. Going to look into why this got flagged in the first place - but this won't happen again with this blog. Thanks again for letting me know, sorry for the hiccup.
- Rick Klau
Thanks for the prompt resolution and communication Rick, great service through Twitter/Friendfeed :)
- Joe Dawson
An Edwards Sex Tape? - http://politicalwire.com/archive...
John Edwards needs to go away.
- Rick Klau
Quote of the Day - http://politicalwire.com/archive...
Good line.
- Rick Klau
(title unknown) - http://pokemon-central.rklau.com/2009...
My 9 year-old's first solo blog post. No help from Dad. And no, I have as little idea what "infernape", "jolteon" and "flaereon" means as you do.
- Rick Klau
Tough Times ... - http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archive...
Question of the Day Comes to TypePad - http://www.sixapart.com/blog...
It's downright Plinky-riffic!
- Rick Klau
Google Gets Serious About Blog Search. Look Out, Lijit! - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Hey Louis - wrote up my thoughts about this on my blog: http://tins.rklau.com/2009... Short version: I think that we're addressing different issues, not really solving the same problem. And Lijit's stats and content networks are pretty slick.
- Rick Klau
Rick, I will look again. Micah didn't like my approach either. Hmmm.
- Louis Gray
Google's Blogger Challenge: Win the Marathon and Don't Bonk. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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I'm glad to hear they're still working on Blogger and its interesting to hear that they have to have 3 people constantly watching it to stop Dos Attacks and Spammers. It would be interesting if they opensourced it like Wordpress have and released a self-host version
- Nicholas James
The hard part about summarizing the discussion is not discussing what's next too early. But there's enough there that I'm not jumping to WordPress, Nicholas.
- Louis Gray
I've played with all three platforms and went with (and continue to) WP. I'm still shocked that Google hasn't monetized Blogger. The profile area (rich with Books, Movies and Music) would be an easy place to do this. (Trust me, I tried to convince them while at Alibris to put links there!) That, along with the lack of flexibility and plugins etc just makes Blogger a very bland platform. It might be more stable more ... accessible ... and that might be enough. *shrugs*
- AJ Kohn
AJ, interesting you say that. Rick says Blogger is monetized, and they, unlike Wordpress.com, make it easy for bloggers to post ads. The product has also integrated directly with Analytics.
- Louis Gray
The ads bit I get ... though WP has very easy AdSense plugins and does Analytics in the same way. I just think that they have a huge opportunity via affiliate revenue on profiles. If I'm on a Blogger profile of someone I like and I see they like a certain band ... why make it tough for me to go and find that band and purchase their music. It's probably my own personal nit since I worked in the book space for so long and saw such a missed opportunity there.
- AJ Kohn
AJ, you worked at Alibris? Cool. I've spent a fair sum there.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
@Louis: Does Blogger allow you to flight other ad network ads? Rubicon etc.?
- AJ Kohn
@Jack: Yes, three fulfilling years at Alibris, leaving as Director of Marketing for both consumers and sellers. I am still passionate about books and think Alibris is a great site.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ Yes, users have complete control over their page, and can include any code from any other ad network. AdSense is quite popular, but affiliate programs and even a few other ad networks get a lot of attention from our users. I like the affiliate idea on profiles - will have to give that more thought.
- Rick Klau
@Rick: Good to know and appreciate the response. And please do think of affiliate idea of profiles ... heck you can even split the revenue with the blog owner. From a purely marketing and commerce perspective (which is my background) I just see so much rich content that naturally lends itself to affiliate commerce - books, movies, music - and it would almost be a service of sorts to...
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- AJ Kohn
I think Blogger deserve praise for offering a free platform that's optimized out of the box and (unlike a wordpress.com hosted blog) allows the user to monetize their blog. Wordpress.com hosted blogs have so many restrictions - allowing wordpress.com to monetize YOUR blog, but not the blog's owner!
- Jim Connolly
Latest round of Reader improvements - http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...
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Now you all know just how much I'm spamming you.
- Rick Klau
It's Chu vs. Chu - http://politicalwire.com/archive...
Two Chus walk into a bar... Sorry. I'm better than that. Not proud of myself.
- Rick Klau
The Torture Mentality, Part 2 - http://www.barryeisler.com/2009...
The United States waterboarded one man 6 times/day for an entire month. That's revolting.
- Rick Klau
TaxProf Blog: 113 Law School Commencement Speakers - http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof...
One of these things is not like the other...
- Rick Klau
Google Latitude Badge Launched for Blogger - WebProNews - http://www.webpronews.com/topnews...
Actually I didn't say this, though I did make the post...
- Rick Klau
'Sister-kissing' gridiron rivals to settle 1993 score - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
Awesome story - replaying this at Lafayette's football field on Sunday at 3pm EST. Well worth a watch...
- Rick Klau
Cupcake :) [Flickr] - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Ricky, Robby & Becca w/Diego Loeb outside Building 44, with the Android, his dog and soon-to-be-released Cupcake. :)
- Rick Klau
Joan Buchanan enters CD10 race - http://www.ibabuzz.com/politic...
Unreal. Woman's been in state office 8 weeks.
- Rick Klau
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