Sunday, September 26, 2004

> Kaye Trammell. The 5th annual meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers was held last week at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England. The number of blog panels shot through the roof this year showing that academic, empirical research on blogs has really taken off. At the conference, I presented a paper co-authored with Alek Tarkowsi from Central European University and Jusytna Hofmokl from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Our paper title was simple: Republic of Blog (Rzeczpospolita Blogów). In the few short years that blogging has been present in on the Polish cyberscape it has taken over, making Poland one of the most quickly adopting blog nations...
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> Homer J. Simpson: DOUGH... the stuff... that buys me beer,
RAY ..... the guy that sells me beer,
ME...... the guy...who drinks the beer,
FAR..... the distance to my beer,
SO...... I think I'll have a beer,
LA...... La, la la la la beer,
TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer,
That will bring us back to...
(Looks into an empty glass)
D'OH!
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> David Sifry: Ugh. What a horrible weekend. I and the team have been spending the entire weekend dealing with massive data corruption caused - of all things - by an electrical fire on the main electrical line coming into our colo here in San Francisco. The colo fire has led to a cascade of failures that has caused the Technorati service to be down for most of the weekend. It's also giving me a lot more respect for people who build and maintain 100% uptime of services, the trials and tribulations they go through, and also the cost of being operationally excellent...
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