Eric Florack on August 5th, 2008

Got the BitsBlog pages listing correctly. It’s a little trick I forgot to import from the other layout. Got some of the Blogburst  and RSS pipes fixed, too.

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davidl on August 2nd, 2008

Bit wasn’t the only one wrestling with problems this morning.

Ended up watching Zulu last night.  Good movie.  I’d seen the movie before.  So I wasn’t going to watch the whole movie   Needless to say, I got caught up in

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Eric Florack on August 2nd, 2008

Little Green Footballs is on the ball, here, having noticed about half of blogdom is missing… if, that is you’re using IE7… saying about 7pm EDT:

I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems

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Eric Florack on August 2nd, 2008

As you see, we have a new theme going.

This is the one I’ve been doing some work on. We were forced to put it up tonight to provide a fast recovery from a failure over at SiteMeter. Putting this

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davidl on August 1st, 2008

The hero of the day is Deby, Apples of Gold:

Blogger Problem PLEASE read

If you have sitemeter and us Internet Explorer, they are not working together and will not allow
you to get into your blog. What it

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Simon Owens over at Blogasm managed to grab an interview with LA Times blog editor Tony Pierce. Yes, that’s the guy who sent the letter that put the kibosh on stories about John Edwards at that Hollywood hotel that’s been

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2008

What you see here is something called “Happy Flu, which is an experiment run by Marc Danziger. If you’ve got a blog and you saw this here first, click “Spread It” which will give you a chance to get the

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2008

Yes, as you can doubtless see, we’re changing the basic layout.

I’ve found a template I can work with, and will be doing that for a few days. Mostly I’m trying to bring the color and font setup over from

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

I commented earlier tonight on Billy’s comments on voting. We pick up the conversation…. Me at Samzidata just now:

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We’re both 50, you and I. Whatever happens, in terms of future direction for this country, and by extension, western

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Saturday, I blogged about BO’s faux presidential seal, and as did Bit earlier today.   Now Ken Wheaton, Advertising Age, reports:  “Obama Campaign Drops Faux Presidential Seal:”

Last week, Barack Obama unveiled a new campaign seal — and not

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Me at OTB just now:

I have a nagging doubt forming at the back of my mind over all of this. Thinking aloud here so please bear with me…

I mentioned somewhere, (here, bitsblog, Q&O, I forget where) within the

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2008

Is there a a pair of braincells left in working order within the AP?

(Shrug) No matter. You see, the bloggers are the 600lb Gorilla, and it’s time the AP figured that one out.

So, AP, welcome to the school

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davidl on June 18th, 2008

The Associated Press does not believe in the War on Terror, but they do believe in their war on bloggers, Tim Conneally, BetaNews

The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it’s now offering to

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An interesting post at OTB yesterday, caught my eye:

The cover story of the current Atlantic (Monthly) is an interesting piece by Nicholas Carr which asks, Is Google Making Us Stupid? It begins with the standard “the Internet is giving

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2008

I’ve gotten several questions over the years about how to get traffic on the blog. We’ll file this under FAQ. Here’s my response;

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