The wisdom of the crowd is definitely a powerful force. TheStar.com – Wikipedia handles Colbert: …Colbert stated, if enough people alter the page on Wikipedia, it’s fact. It should have been the biggest threat to the institution of Wikipedia to date. It was a condemnation of the site’s credibility. And it didn’t come from...
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CNET News.com: Protecting yourself from search engines
CNET News.com has written an article about protecting yourself from search engines. The piece is a fluff piece; however, does have some useful tips. I recommend that you read it. This comes after AOL released the search records of users to the public. FAQ: Protecting yourself from search engines | CNET News.com: AOLs publication...
InfoWorld: Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits – Analysis
Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-31 | By Peter Wayner:
Valleywag: Kevin Rose Explains the BusinessWeek Cover Photo
Valleywag: Kevin Rose Explains the BusinessWeek Cover Photo He aparently thought that the particular picture that made it to the cover was a joke picture.
Computerworld.com: So how do you code an AJAX Web page?
Computerworld.com has published a good article titled: So how do you code an AJAX Web page? Give it a read if you’re interested in this sort of thing.
Business Week, Kevin Rose, and ‘Fuzzy Math’
Scott Rosenberg, editor and co-founder of Salon and Jason from 37signals both weigh in on BusinessWeek’s cover proclaiming Kevin Rose to have made $60 million dollars in 18 months.
Video: Day of the Long Tail
I have not spoken much about the Long Tail on this blog, but I am about to start to. The phrase was coined by Chris Anderson, the editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine. He has published a book titled The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (Hardcover). I am currently...
suexec, php-5.1.4, fastcgi and cpanel
The idea of using FastCGI first struck me on Monday. I had previously transitioned my server to use SuEXEC for PHP. Pages were loading slower than I would have liked. PHP was running as a CGI application. Each time there was a request for a page the server woud have to open a new...
suexec, php-5.1.4, fastcgi and cpanel – tomorrow
Tomorrow I will write about how I was finally able to get suexec, php-5.1.4, and fastcgi working on a cpanel server. It took a lot of trial and error. The solution is not as perfect as I’d like it to be, but it does work. I have written the post. suexec, php-5.1.4, fastcgi and...
sshdfilter: Stop SSH brute force attacks
One of my clients recently complained that one of the servers was a bit slow at times. Upon checking the logs I found a string of attacks against that server. People from Russia, China, Bolivia, the US and many other countries were running scripts to attempt to hack into the server. I investigated many...