an extended excerpt of the new book, “Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush,” by Eric Boehlert. It’s a scathing critique of the media’s handling of the run up to the Iraq war. Well worth a read, particularly the parts about Judith Miller at the NYTimes.
I don’t use TypePad
or Livejournal, and apparently I don’t read many sites using either service because I didn’t notice that there was a huge outage for both of them a day or so ago. Six Apart, the company who runs those services, said simply that it was the victim of a massive DDoS attack. Jason Levine has done a little digging, though, and he found that underneath it all there’s a really interesting story involving an anti-spam operation (which uses questionable tactics), spammers trying to fight back, and what seems to have been a really bad decision: The dishonor of Blue Security.
Yahoo! is widely considered
a star of “the new internet” and rightly so for many reasons. But it’s purchase and seeming mothballing of the wonderful blo.gs service is not one of them. Like many people, I use an RSS aggregator for my bulk blog-reading needs – but that does not in any way make blo.gs redundant. If I need to read a site for the text only, an RSS reader is great, but it still doesn’t replace the experience of reading in a browser – and I haven’t yet met an RSS reader that works as a simple notifier. But I’ve written about all of this before.
What’s amazing is that since last summer when the service effectively became only marginally usable, there has been no information forthcoming from Yahoo! or any of its notable bloggers about what’s happening with the service. If it’s going to live, I would think that a short word to that effect would be quite useful – if it’s going to die, then just kill it already.
I also want to ask: is there an alternative? Can any RSS reader be configured to store a simple list of recently updated sites and not present the posts themselves and everything but just a link to the front of the blog that has been updated? What options are there to duplicate this dying service? And am I crazy for wishing there were?
From Daring Fireball:
When ‘Smart’ Cut/Copy/Paste Attacks. “Once software starts down this path of guessing what it is the user is trying to do, and then doing something special based on that guess, it must guess correctly nearly every time, because the times when it guesses wrong are so annoying that they far outweigh the extra convenience of the times when it guesses right.”
The other people he could have called out were the geniuses at Palm (and others) who decided to use modifier-P for Paste rather than sticking with the de facto standard.
Another launch today,
via organizer/activist Michael Lenczner: mtl3p: Presenting CivicAccess.ca / AccèsCivique.ca. See the website here: http://civicaccess.ca/ (plus the launch announcement).
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