Monthly Archives: November 2002

Klez and social serendipity

So, I just got an email from someone I do not know; we’ll call her R.D.. It turns out she received an email from “me” offering congratulations. Of course, it was simply a random Klez (or kin) subject, and a spoofed email reply address. But since I had received it from her, a real human [...]
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Epic

“Everyone’s life is epic in his own eyes.”
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Tracking back

I am a late adopter of Trackbacks. I guess one reason is that it seemed that most of the blogs I read were not hosted by MT, and I was looking for some scale before jumping on. Moreover, I don’t get many daily visitors (about 5-50, median far closer to the former), and many of [...]
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Starmaking

Mike needs to be famous… and fast. (Advertising for the sake of advertising.)
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Killing the 18-month cycle

I’ve been thinking about hardware upgrades. I’ve always stayed a couple of years or more behind the cutting edge. Must of this has to do with my level of income (and debt!), though some of it is a question of importance. My computer at home is now far beyond that mark, but it is rare [...]
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On Blogs

I have, as a when-I-get-time project, wanted to start a blog for blog researchers and call it “onblogs.” But I do wonder if there is a need for such a centralized place for such things, given the distributed k-logs out there now. Is another layer of filtration really needed? I would want to be collecting [...]
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Web-based distributed micro-management

Since the “Friday Five” (.org) is dead, the meme is deceased, let’s talk about another friday five (.com). The idea of Friday Fives is perhaps not that new–something like them has rotated through offices on a regular basis. It’s basically a way of reporting performance. Like other performance and benchmarking measures, it provides a metric that [...]
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