Monthly Archives: November 2004

2004 Academic Weblog Awards

By Oliver Wrede | Published: November 23, 2004
The Guardian has published a weblog special. And the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is just in the final two weeks of the “Best of blogs” award. James Farmer (Incorporated Subversion) suggests to run an academic weblog award. Update: You can now nominate educational weblogs: You can nominate as many blogs as you like for as [...]
Posted in Weblog Theory | Leave a comment

Spam

By Oliver Wrede | Published: November 15, 2004
After getting comment spam for a while I found my wiki pages were spammed as well: someone added hundreds of links obiously to tune the page rank algorithm of google. There does not seem to be an easy way to deal with this issue. So I needed to disable open wiki editing (which equals not [...]
Posted in Contemplation | Leave a comment

Sorry everybody?

By Oliver Wrede | Published: November 7, 2004
At sorryeverybody.com people trying to apologize for re-electing George W. Bush. People can submit images to testify their disappointment to the world. The server seems to be pretty overloaded.
Posted in Politics | Leave a comment

Re-surrection

By Oliver Wrede | Published: November 6, 2004
It has been quite silent here the last month. I was very busy and blogging had to be suspended for a while. This will change soon – there have been a lot of things going on. Here’s what is up next: 1. Election in US: a very bad decision to re-elect Bush. But it seems [...]
Posted in Contemplation | Leave a comment
Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes