The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won’t frickin’ die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way back in October of 2002, but it may be even older than that. The supposed problem was quickly resolved using Conditional GETs — a scheme that sends a simple 304 Not Modified message back to […]
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What RSS Bandwidth Problem?
01Feb05Suckage
27Nov04Renaming mt-comments.cgi slowed down the scumbag comment spammers but has not stopped them. I’ve turned on Typekey registration. The standard implementation requires Cookies and Javascript. Sorry for the inconvenience. When I have more time to mess with it I will re-implement the Javascript stuff on the server side.
Contact me if there are problems.
On the plus […]
Scumbags
16Nov04Comment spam has really been ticking me off lately. I’m not so angry at the spammers, ultimately what they are doing is basic human nature — in any group there will always be someone that tries to ruin the experience. I’m angry at Google for making anti-social behavior profitable. Weblogs have become victims of their […]
War Filter
23Mar03Ben Hammersley: Feedster’s reputation as the search engine du jour for blogs has jumped immeasurably in my opinion this evening. To Scott Johnson, I tip my hat, light a cigar, and send promises of dusky maidens - for he has implemented the No War Filter.
Wish that my television set had a No War Filter…
Understanding
10Feb03Dave Winer: Clay Shirky does not understand weblogs. […] To get an idea of what I’m talking about, skim Clay’s article.
Clay Shirky: In a world where most bloggers get below average traffic, audience size can’t be the only metric for success.
Despite Clay’s piece mostly being a downer, explaining that none of us can ever hope […]
Meg Hourihan spent a month in Paris and learned that broadband isn’t everywhere and dial-up isn’t always cheap. My dial-up bills when I lived in Germany were $250-$350 per month. When DT briefly offered a flat-rate single-channel ISDN Internet plan for about $100/month it seemed like a bargain!
Today, thankfully, we have the technology to make […]
*back, Part V
12Nov02Installing PostgreSQL on my web hosting account was simple enough. Lost time getting PHP’s Postgre extension to work, turned out that I was enabling the Windows version, not the Unix one. Whoopsie.
Got the database created, tables populated, PHP scripts modified for their new home…
I think that I’m burnt out for tonight. In the morning I’ll […]
What I’m working on…
11Nov02I love the concepts of Trackback and Pingback, but these systems are designed to work with weblog software that runs on the web server. Radio runs on the desktop, Blogger and many other weblog tools run on someone else’s servers. A large group of webloggers are essentially unable to participate.
And even though I upgraded to […]
