tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86167582024-03-06T22:09:34.620-08:00DorionA perspective of things that might matter, if I had the time to write about them.dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-20497071528592516202009-05-17T14:01:00.000-07:002009-05-17T14:12:44.042-07:00Technorati colo moveI just posted an <a href="http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/05/508.html">update</a> regarding the status of Technorati.com and our colo move.<br /><br />The short answer is, we've moved 2/3 of the old colo, search and tags are working, but slow, and blog claiming and blog lookups are not happy.<br /><br />Our priorities are:<br /><br /><ol><br /><li>Stability and performance of the site.</li><br /><li>Making sure blog claiming works.</li><br /><li>Continued ping processing and indexing.</li><br /></ol><br /><br />We will continue to move servers and network equipment over the next two weeks, but, at this point, we have enough capacity to run almost everything out of the new colo. Getting this far has been a ton of work for the ops team, late nights, long weekends, system pages at all hours of the day and night. I really appreciate their continued hard work and positive attitude. Ops and 7x24x365 duty is not for everyone. Throw a colo move of this magnitude into the mix and it is inspiring to hear them respond, "it's all part of the job".<br /><br />Thanks guys, and thanks to the core engineering team and product team who continue to help out in any way they can.<br /><br />Onward.<br /><br />Technroati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">Technorati</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technoratinews" rel="tag">TechnoratiNews</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/colomove" rel="tag">ColoMove</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-41329722633061573912009-02-27T20:50:00.000-08:002009-02-27T20:56:07.314-08:00#1 on Google for search "dorion" - I winFor the 1st time I am the #1 result for the search "dorion" on Google. Can't tell you how cool this feels.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=dorion&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">Google search for "dorion"</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIInls9LslGQ3zlF-GFzObstezq0r45vu7sFdpZ-gK3XO84O8nWi-jUEulV1UUlMXToYu-O1s93fgN4e4d5BIj-ERU6QosT-Vf1KpkC2RZyyNWgt8K2vMyO6WEsAcmD1vNojb/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIInls9LslGQ3zlF-GFzObstezq0r45vu7sFdpZ-gK3XO84O8nWi-jUEulV1UUlMXToYu-O1s93fgN4e4d5BIj-ERU6QosT-Vf1KpkC2RZyyNWgt8K2vMyO6WEsAcmD1vNojb/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307706819993187778" /></a><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/dorion" rel="tag">dorion</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/seo" rel="tag">SEO</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-60632554650822211792009-02-23T19:43:00.000-08:002009-02-23T19:47:24.081-08:00Richard Jalichandra launches a new blog<a href="http://www.jalichandra.com/">Richard Jalichandra</a>, AKA the bossman, RJ, the Jali Green Giant (ok, I just made that last one up).<br /><br />Follow him on Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/jalichandra">jalichandra</a>.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/jalichandra" rel="tag">Jalichandra</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/richard-jalichandra" rel="tag">Richard Jalichandra</a>.dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-86525607968951528702009-02-12T22:44:00.000-08:002009-02-12T22:53:10.448-08:00What's the fastest way to turn an oil tanker?A <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tidal wave" rel="tag">tidal wave</a>.<br /><br />Rather than focus on the laborious task of changing direction, it might very well be better to consider the absurd. If you can make a tidal wave, you can turn a lot of oil tankers. Of course, you need to figure out how not to sink them.<br /><br />I was at a dinner party tonight with a bunch of people who, perhaps without knowing it, figured out how to make tidal waves. I suspect they did not focus on the specific problem of turning a single oil tanker. In fact, I think <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Zennstr%C3%B6m">Niklas</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis">Janus</a> knew, once they had learned how to make tidal waves, they could do a lot more than turn ships. Thanks for a pleasant and illuminating evening.dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-57192242413016625002009-01-30T19:35:00.000-08:002009-01-30T19:53:57.499-08:00Mass of a multi-dimensional cubeRecently I've been thinking a lot about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array#Multi-dimensional_arrays">multi-dimensional arrays</a>. Don't ask me why, I can't tell you.<br /><br />It's quite common to comment on the sparsity in a multi-dimensional array. In data warehousing this can be be quite helpful or the bane of your data management strategies. Keeping track of indexes and pointers can also be a royal pain.<br /><br />Given a few dimensions, and knowing the expected size of any of the individual key spaces lends itself to the easy calculation of the volume of the multi-dimensional space.<br /><blockquote>You have two dimensions. Friends and Cities. You have 100 Friends. You are tracking 100 Cities. The possible combination of these keys is 100 x 100 or 10,000 cells in the space. But what if you wanted to estimate how many of your friends had visited each of the cities. This would certainly be much smaller.<br /><br />So, you might estimate that most of your friends have probably visited 10 of the cities. Thus, there are only 10 x 100 cells filled in. But then, many of them may have visited the same cities, so you want to think about how many of the cities have been visited by any friends. Maybe most of the cities have been visited by 5 of your friends on average. Certainly there is a high likelihood that some of the cities haven't been visited by any of your friends.<br /></blockquote><br />Now, imagine that you have 6 or more dimensions. You are actually trying to model a much more complex set of keys and their combinations where not all combinations are likely to happen. Thus, you have lots of sparsity. But what about where you do have combinations?<br /><br />Well, what's been racing through my mind is a visualization of the clusters, the density of the combinations and, that leads me to the notion of calculating the "mass of the multi-dimensional cube". Ok, it's really a multi-dimensional array as a cube has three dimensions, but data warehousing seems to use the <i>cube</i> concept.<br /><br />There you have it, nothing conclusive but I thought I would coin my phrase.dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-89711632322983760882009-01-22T15:08:00.000-08:002009-01-22T15:23:07.347-08:00Technorati indexes new White House BlogMy colleague <a href="http://www.arachna.com/roller/spidaman/">Ian Kallen</a> put up an excellent <a href="http://technorati.com/weblog/2009/01/466.html">post</a> about the change in Washington and, in particular, the new <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog">White House Blog</a>. He was far too humble in stating his contribution to our new crawler architecture that is rolling out this month.<br /><br />Excellent post, Ian, and incredible job on the new crawler. I know it has been a long time coming.<br /><br />On a separate note, I just have to comment on the title of the White House Blog. All it says is:<br /><br /><blockquote><h2>Blog</h2></blockquote><br /><br /><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUV9sXcjYBUrUlfUhdop2sVq1LzL5hKO3BPPAjvZHv_wckXQdNCYyLUUGHMl-hT7q1tSpfrYad7rN3L8yfbdZ0R0zQCOC3LselbNNiNOWFoDARUQDSlhxDxRwZlfW5HWzMIxqY/s1600-h/whitehouse-blog.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUV9sXcjYBUrUlfUhdop2sVq1LzL5hKO3BPPAjvZHv_wckXQdNCYyLUUGHMl-hT7q1tSpfrYad7rN3L8yfbdZ0R0zQCOC3LselbNNiNOWFoDARUQDSlhxDxRwZlfW5HWzMIxqY/s400/whitehouse-blog.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294261236884280834" /></a><br /></div><br /><br />Go figure.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/white house blog" rel="tag">White House Blog</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/spidaman" rel="tag">Spidaman</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/ian kallen" rel="tag">Ian Kallen</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-42260839862922094562008-11-14T08:51:00.000-08:002008-11-14T09:00:38.190-08:00Montecito Tea Fire links - Nov '08I grew up in Montecito and my parents still live there. Their home is safely outside the optional evacuation point, though the fire is burning only 2 miles from their home.<br /><br />I found this post on <a href="http://wildfiretoday.blogspot.com/2008/11/update-on-tea-fire-near-montecito.html">Wildfire Today</a> that has some news updates and links to Google maps.<br /><br />Here is the closeup link with an updating <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&t=h&msid=113022420691920912386.00045b9ef1712164139a6&ll=34.443725,-119.667292&spn=0.051035,0.111494&source=embed">fire map</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dorionc.com/assets/img/tea-fire-map.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 533px; height: 407px;" src="http://dorionc.com/assets/img/tea-fire-map.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/teafire" rel="tag">TeaFire</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/montecito+fire" rel="tag">Montecito Fire</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/santa+barbara+fire" rel="tag">Santa Barbara Fire</a>,dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-23576445170189883352008-11-05T14:29:00.000-08:002008-11-05T14:39:31.653-08:00Technorati VP of Engineering talks with ZDNetAt the tail end of October, I had a chance to speak with Sumi Das over at ZDNet to talk about Technorati as part of their <a href="http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/">CIO Sessions</a>.<br /><br />We spoke for longer than the interview play time, but they did a great job editing it to keep it relevant to the series.<br /><br />It was pretty cool to be able to look back on what we have accomplished in the 4 years I have been with <a href="http://technorati.com">Technorati</a> and to be able share a little insight with those who might be interested.<br /><br />I haven't seen myself on video in a long time and it was a bit freaky how much my body language made me feel like I was watching my own brother.<br /><br />It's a quick watch, so if you'd like to know a little about the evolution of Technorati, give it a try.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=10619">CIO Sessions: Technorati VP of engineering: Dorion Carroll</a><br /><br /><blockquote>In this episode of CIO Sessions, Dorion Carroll, vice president of engineering for Technorati, talks to ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das about the challenges with scaling operations as the blogosphere continues to grow. He also discusses how they’re able to index millions of blog posts in near real time, surviving the economic downturn and what differentiates the company from its biggest competitor, Google.</blockquote><br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/CIOSessions" rel="tag">CIO Sessions</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sumi+das" rel="tag">Sumi Das</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/scalability" rel="tag">Scalability</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-72913499842752017672008-07-25T14:28:00.000-07:002008-07-25T14:37:05.581-07:00Wordle word cloud: United States Constitution<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/89118/United_States_Constitution"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://dorionc.com/assets/img/United-States-Constitution.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://wordle.net/">Wordle.net</a> has a fun new style of word cloud. It's really easy. I just created one for the United States Constitution.<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/">Technorati Tags</a>:<br /><br /><a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Wordle" title="View everything tagged Wordle on Technorati"> <img style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Wordle" alt=" " />Wordle</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/USConstitution" title="View everything tagged USConstitution on Technorati"> <img style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=USConstitution" alt=" " />USConstitution</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Constitution" title="View everything tagged Constitution on Technorati"> <img style="border: 0pt none ; vertical-align: middle; margin-left: 0.4em;" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Constitution" alt=" " />Constitution</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-49917649208328351792008-07-23T12:53:00.001-07:002008-07-23T12:57:18.643-07:00Google Blogger hosts 2% of web's malware, says SophosGoogle has created the perfect storm for malware and other malicious content with Blogger as a free content system, AdSense for quick monetization, and their search engine to deliver it all rapidly to the entire web.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/214371/google-blogger-hosts-2-of-worlds-malware.html'>read more</a> | <a href='http://digg.com/security/Google_Blogger_hosts_2_of_web_s_malware_says_Sophos'>digg story</a><br /><br />First read on <a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/214371/google-blogger-hosts-2-of-worlds-malware.html">PC Pro</a><br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/BehavioralTargeting" title="View everything tagged Malware on Technorati"> <img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Malware" alt=" " />Malware</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/Blogger" title="View everything tagged Blogger on Technorati"> <img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=Blogger" alt=" " />Blogger</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-10772139816455038442008-07-21T13:54:00.000-07:002008-07-21T14:06:19.110-07:00Synopsis of the OMMA Behavioral panel I just spoken onThis was a nice little surprise from Pingie when I got back from the OMMA panel on BT<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.vortexdna.com/"><img src="http://blog.vortexdna.com/images/vortexdna-logo.gif" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.vortexdna.com/omma-behavioral-panel-out-of-the-black-box-bts-next-practices/" title="OMMA Behavioral Panel: Out of the Black Box: BT’s Next Practices">OMMA Behavioral Panel: Out of the Black Box: BT’s Next Practices</a><br /><br /><blockquote>From the agenda: The classic ‘black box’ of BT tags and tracks user content consumption across the Web to target them later with relevant messages. But, how can marketers realize similar targeting efficiencies outside of the typical online ad network, in RSS feeds, email, mobile and widgets? As your content and marketing becomes more portable and customizable by the user, what targeting techniques are available now and on the way? Moderator: Roman Bukary, Truviso. Speakers: Bill Flitter, Pheedo; Eddie Smith, SocialMedia Networks; Dorion Carroll, Technorati; Elgin Kim, Nokia Interactive; Dave Martin, Ignited Media.</blockquote><br />Not really a transcription, but got the gist of most of what was being said.<br /><br />Being at the conference and on such a great panel really got me thinking about the future of advertising and content. I'd really like to see how we navigate the issues between privacy and utility. Clearly, the more an ad network knows about you, the better they can target ads, but, the riskier it will be that someone crosses the privacy line. Right now, I think it is safer to target the behavior profile rather than the individual profile and, more importantly, to be able to filter by context and end user initiated engagement.<br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/BehavioralTargeting" title="View everything tagged BehavioralTargeting on Technorati"> <img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=BehavioralTargeting" alt=" " />BehavioralTargeting</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://technorati.com/tag/OMMA" title="View everything tagged OMMA on Technorati"> <img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=OMMA" alt=" " />OMMA</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-38004404442441378122008-07-20T12:32:00.000-07:002008-07-20T13:31:28.892-07:00Peter Hirshberg interviews Lawrence Lessig about RevolutionAt the <a href="http://www.aifestival.org/">Aspen Ideas Festival</a>,<br /><br /><a href="http://atomicbomb.typepad.com/" title="Peter Hirshberg">Peter Hirshberg</a> interviewed <a href="http://www.lessig.org/blog/" title="Lawrence Lessig">Lawrence Lessig</a> about how his ideas have expanded beyond copyright policy and into the realm of a much needed revolution.<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://fora.tv/myfora/PeterHirshberg/clip/130/Aspen_Ideas_Festival_Interview_Lawrence_Lessig"><img src="http://fora.tv/fora/fora_download.php?cid=130&type=user_clip_thumbnail" /></a>The U.S. Congress is broken. Stanford Law Professor and cyber visionary Lessig has set out on a simple mission: fix it.</blockquote><br /><br />The 3 minute interview covers some of Lessig's thinking about revolution in governance. In this instance, he is using the word, revolution, as in the revolution of the hands of a clock. They return to where they started. He is suggesting we need to return to founding ideals rather than requiring a radical change. This, in fact, is really what the American Revolution was about, though it also resulted in a radical change.<br /><br />The basic premise in Lessig's view is, if our representatives were free of the dependency on campaign fund raising, they would be able to spend more time on addressing the issues of their constituency.<br /><br />Thanks to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1485403&authToken=pogD&authType=name">Sarah Kennon</a> from <a href="http://fora.tv">FORA.tv</a> for pointing this out to me. Worth a listen.<br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PeterHirshberg" title="View everything tagged Peter Hirshberg on Technorati" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=PeterHirshberg" alt=" " />PeterHirshberg</a><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/LawrenceLessig" title="View everything tagged Lawrence Lessig on Technorati" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=LawrenceLessig" alt=" " />LawrenceLessig</a><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tags/AspenIdeas" title="View everything tagged Aspen Ideas on Technorati" rel="tag"><img style="border:0;vertical-align:middle;margin-left:.4em" src="http://static.technorati.com/static/img/pub/icon-utag-16x13.png?tag=AspenIdeas" alt=" " />AspenIdeas</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-52332354078449090722008-04-12T19:18:00.000-07:002008-04-30T13:47:13.310-07:00The Iron Man cometh<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://dorionc.com/assets/img/ironman412-22.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://dorionc.com/assets/img/ironman412-22.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/12/iron-man-2-minute-video-clip-and-29-new-photos/">/film</a> has a video clip of Tony Stark testing his flight controls. Pretty sweet. Should be a summer of good flicks, but I'm pyched about this one. I've always been an Iron Man fan.<br /><br /><span style="display:none;">1426700227</span>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-87439860444454282992008-03-03T09:39:00.000-08:002008-03-03T10:10:59.913-08:00Speed and stability can make a huge differenceOver at Perry Web (<a href="http://blog.perryweb.com/?p=131">Technorati? OK, Maybe I Do Care.</a>) they noticed some of the improvements we've made in performance and stability on <a href="http://technorati.com">Technorati</a>.<br /><br />We've put a lot of effort into our search infrastructure over the last 3 quarters and I am extremely proud of our Operations team. Not only is our back end performance under 1 second almost all the time, the team was able to achieve this with very little additional expense.<br /><br />I'm very excited to see someone posting good news since I suspect there a lot of others who have noticed but not thought to blog about it.<br /><br />Finally, the other obvious thing that makes a huge difference is great people. That's what we have and we are looking to grow our team. Check out the <a href="http://technorati.com/about/jobs.html">job listings</a>.<br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/technorati" rel="tag">Technorati</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/performance" rel="tag">Performance</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/perry+web" rel="tag">Perry Web</a><br /><br />Update:<br /><br />Case in point, here's a snapshot of my <a href="http://technorati.com/blogs/dorion.blogspot.com">blog page</a> on Technorati that shows it took 49 seconds between me hitting the Publish Post button and the post being available in the Technorati index.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/2307452697_b238861a67.jpg?v=0"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2244/2307452697_b238861a67.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-27971007381090335142008-01-16T09:43:00.000-08:002008-01-16T10:02:07.596-08:00Great suggestions on fighting scrapers, reposters and sploggers<a href="http://wordpressgarage.com">Miriam Schwab</a> raises a very important issue about scrapers, reposters, and sploggers ripping off her content in <a href="http://wordpressgarage.com/news-views/wordpressgarage-is-being-scraped-i-want-to-stop-themnow/">WordPressGarage is being scraped! I want to stop them…now!</a>.<br /><br />The comments are very informative and I recommend reading through them all.<br /><br />The basic problem is, you find your content being republished on some other site without your permission and want to stop them. Some of the suggestions are:<br /><ul><br /><li><a href="http://celebwarship.com/">Alyk</a> starts with the soft approach suggesting that you email them and ask them nicely to stop. This might actually work now and then, but for the hard core sploggers, you'll never find an email address and emailing may just tell them to add a live email address to their email spam lists. Yikes!<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://justjennifer.wordpress.com/">Jennifer</a> suggests filing a TOS complaint with their hosting provider. She also suggests reading:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/09/05/autodiscovery-and-rss-scraping/#more-623">http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/09/05/autodiscovery-and-rss-scraping/#more-623</a><br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/">Jonathan Bailey</a> suggests filing a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA">DMCA</a> with their hosting provider or file a complaint with their advertisers.<br /><br />Jonathan seems to have some solid background on this problem. You might just want to check out his blog, <a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/">Plagiarism Today</a>.<br /></li><br /><li><a href="http://jobmob.co.il/">Israel Jobs</a> suggests:<br />report them as spam to Google here:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en">https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en</a><br /><br />Harder: submit a dmca complaint to Google:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/dmca.html">http://www.google.com/dmca.html</a><br /></li><br /></ul><br />Having fought spam for many years, the best way to deal with this is to go after their pocket book. Track down an AdSense ID, file a complaint with Google or their other advertisers. If they can't make money easily, they'll look for other prey.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/scrapers" rel="tag">Scrapers</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/reposters" rel="tag">Reposters</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/sploggers" rel="tag">Sploggers</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Blogging" rel="tag">Blogging</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Fighting+Back" rel="tag">Fighting Back</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-87200868579072657072008-01-09T22:54:00.000-08:002008-01-09T22:58:56.150-08:00Must read post about blogger stats by Josh BancroftJosh Bancroft over at <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/">TinyScreenfuls</a> puts together a great <a href="http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com/2008/01/site-statistics-i-care-about-as-a-blogger/">roundup of stats</a> that matter to bloggers with Google Analytics screen shots and meaningful context. The comments are helpful too.<br /><br />Highly recommended.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/stats" rel="tag">Stats</a>,<br /> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/bloggers" rel="tag">Bloggers</a>,<br /> <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/blogging" rel="tag">Blogging</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-20725089881361841742007-12-02T19:07:00.000-08:002007-12-02T19:30:11.460-08:00Evel Knievel has left the stadiumJust read this on <a href="http://jalopnik.com/cars/evel-knievel/remembering-robert-craig-evel-knievel-jr-328864.php">Jalopnik</a>.<br /><br />Alas, Evel Knievel is gone. He definitely lit up the imagination of a pre-teen. Jumping buses, jumping sharks, jumping ridiculous distances, obstacles and natural phenomena.<br /><br />Who amongst us would seek fame and accept such a personal, physical price. Very few, I expect.<br /><br />Hope that last big jump landed.<br /><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLOR8yHjxses">EVEL KNIEVEL DAREDEVIL TRIBUTE 1938-2007</a><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/fame" rel="tag">Fame</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/faith" rel="tag">Faith</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/glory" rel="tag">Glory</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Evel+Knievel" rel="tag">Evel Knievel</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Robert+Craig" rel="tag">Robert Craig</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-46483005736185879252007-10-24T00:08:00.000-07:002007-10-24T00:15:23.553-07:00American PieI don't blog often. I try to make each post something worth reading. This one brings together a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4">visual interpretation</a> of Don McLean's American Pie and the fact that I was turned onto this by my father-in-law.<br /><br /><blockquote>Sent to me by a friend of mine..thought you might enjoy it.<br /><br /><strong>Subject: FW: American Pie</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4</a><br /></blockquote><br />And I did.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/American+Pie" rel="tag">American Pie</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-38897414308121838452007-10-23T23:41:00.001-07:002007-10-24T00:13:18.129-07:00Customizing the Technorati Link Count WidgetMatt over at pixelspread <a href="http://pixelspread.com/blog/266/technorati-reactions-hack-and-style">talks about</a> how to customize the look and feel of the <a href="http://technorati.com/tools/linkcount/">Technorati Link Count widget</a>. He does a nice job of making the result match the look and feel of his blog.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/1722755415_77561d7fab.jpg?v=0"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2392/1722755415_77561d7fab.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Oh, and since, at the time of this writing, no one had linked to the post, I thought I would to watch it change.<br /><br />I use the widget on my posts. Most of them have no link love :(<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/linkcountwidget" rel="tag">Link Count Widget</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-53985664454492126482007-10-11T14:27:00.001-07:002007-10-12T10:11:38.861-07:00Universal search comparison, explanation, and SEO challengesIt's a bit of a long read, but worth it if you want to understand the differences and similarities amongst Google Universal Search, Ask 3D, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live.<br /><br />Lee Odden of <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com">Online Marketing Blog</a> writes about it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/2007/10/optimizing-universal-search/">Small Business Guide To Optimizing Universal Search</a><br /><br />At the end, Lee talks about new challenges in SEO to help optimize for universal search. Particularly intereszting are the comments about embedding video and images about product launches with relevant text, descriptions, and keywords or tags to help bump the product into multiple universal search opportunities.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/SEO" rel="tag">SEO</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Universal+Search" rel="tag">Universal Search</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Marketing" rel="tag">Marketing</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-14195951180359406912007-09-22T11:33:00.000-07:002007-09-22T11:51:00.414-07:00Use Technorati, It’s A Real LifesaverWell, that's the conclusion by Michael Sotia in <a href="http://agrinohost.com/blog/?p=12">How Technorati Provides Useful Blog Content</a>.<br /><br />You should certainly claim your blog, upload your photo, so it will show up next to your posts in search results, mark your Favorite blogs and check out our <a href="http://widgets.technorati.com">widgets</a>.<br /><br />Thanks for the tips Michael.<br /><br />Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technorati" rel="tag">Technorati</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-91018287712845830822007-09-19T22:57:00.000-07:002007-09-19T23:03:53.837-07:00Pitzer College's YouTube Class<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97Bk1yQ5-rPFIMNfUxNHUCBvcu89Yz0x7uFHouRZ_ymBLYOzj9p2Qr_Kg9ItFlhLBFDO7dC8FjL27RyVl3fN0cbeyi0ZX8RjdjLpHQFNLItz-ClSBGs47aYtLfnsUY0SwEsMB/s1600-h/logo-186x69.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh97Bk1yQ5-rPFIMNfUxNHUCBvcu89Yz0x7uFHouRZ_ymBLYOzj9p2Qr_Kg9ItFlhLBFDO7dC8FjL27RyVl3fN0cbeyi0ZX8RjdjLpHQFNLItz-ClSBGs47aYtLfnsUY0SwEsMB/s320/logo-186x69.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112162190865957794" /></a><br /><br />Ok, I graduated from <a href="http://www.pitzer.edu/">Pitzer</a>.<br /><br /><br />I can't tell if this is a great sign of the times or something I should be embarassed about. Well, I'm going to stick with my optimistic streak and say, "this is pretty darn cool".<br /><br /><a href="http://www.techaiku.com/2007/09/pitzer-colleges-youtube-class.html">Pitzer College's YouTube Class</a><br /><br /><blockquote><br />YouTube 101<br />Midterm: Mentos+Coke vid<br />Final: LonelyGirl.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.pitzer.edu/news_center/in_the_news/07-08-academic_year/2007_09-04_highered_youtube.asp">YouTube Studies</a><br /><br />Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Pitzer" rel="tag">Pitzer</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-49047360231265355962007-09-10T17:36:00.000-07:002007-09-10T21:39:12.407-07:00Introducing Technorati TopicsTechnorati collects millions of blog posts every day — too many for the average human being to even try to track. As a Technorati power user, I've been fascinated by just how much I can find out using Technorati <a href="http://technorati.com/search">Search</a>. If you're like me and you know how to construct just the right search, you can winnow the results to just what you are looking for.<br /><br />That being said, I've read a lot of great feedback on Technorati, how we should organize the vastness of the blogosphere and help people find the good stuff and help great bloggers be found. In particular, I read a lot of blog posts asking us to build what bloggers want. Well, today we are releasing a major overhaul of the Technorati <a href="http://technorati.com/">Home page</a> and a completely new area of the site that emphasizes blogs, Technorati <a href="http://technorati.com/topics">Topics</a>. With Topics, we help you discover what bloggers are writing about in <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/entertainment">Entertainment</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/technology">Technology</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/politics">Politics</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/sports">Sports</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/business">Business</a>, and <a href="http://technorati.com/topics/life">Life</a>.<br /><br />Each topic features blog posts from many of the best blogs out there to help you discover what's going on. The posts are refreshed frequently to reflect breaking news, new opinions, and the latest from the Web. We've set out to help you find some great blog posts to read and we've organized them by easy to browse topics. We considered a number of factors to get the seed list of blogs including <a href="http://support.technorati.com/faq/topic/71">Technorati Authority</a>, frequency of posting, use of relevant tags, links to related subject matter and general topicality.<br /><br />I am very proud of what the team has put together over the summer. We continue to work on search, stability, and performance and we're listening to what you have to say about Technorati. I want you to know we really appreciate all that every blogger has to say. Today's release is just a first step. There is a lot more we have up our sleeves, so stay tuned for what's coming next and come back often.<br /><br />I welcome your feedback and input, so, please, join the <a href="http://support.technorati.com/discussions/">discussion</a> about Technorati.<br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technorati%20Topics" rel="tag">Technorati Topics</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-52429534305029623892007-08-30T22:48:00.000-07:002007-08-30T22:57:50.068-07:00Another call out to Technorati - another chance to deliverIn <a href="http://experiencecurve.com/archives/technorati-why-crossing-the-chasm-is-not-always-a-good-idea">Technorati - Why Crossing The Chasm Is Not Always a Good Idea</a>, ExperienceCurve discusses how crossing the chasm may have its downside. Well, <a href="http://technorati.com">Techorati</a> is still a young company. We have 30 great people, have accomplished much, are still alive today, and are ready to re-engage with the people that look to us to help make sense of the blogosphere.<br /><br />As I said in my comments on the post above, "Personally, I'm bullish on Technorati :)". And why shouldn't I be. Great people have created incredible potential that Technorati now sits in the midst of. Our own employees, the bloggers who have stuck with us, and all of the blogosphere that continues to grow and react every day.<br /><br />All I can say is, stay tuned, the best is yet to come.<br /><br />Technorati Tags:<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Technorati" rel="tag">Technorati</a>,<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/tag/Feedback" rel="tag">Feedback</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8616758.post-31742736758997367092007-06-30T19:16:00.000-07:002007-06-30T19:27:03.452-07:00iPhone fever and people blogging about 'emWell, people seem to like blogging about the <a href="http://technorati.com/posts/tag/iphone">iPhone</a>.<br /><br />Posts that contain <a href="http://technorati.com/chart/iphone?sub=chartlet">Iphone</a> per day for the last 180 days.<br /><a href="http://technorati.com/chart/iphone?chartdays=180&sub=chartlet"><img src="http://technorati.com/chartimg/iphone?totalHits=351230&size=l&days=180" style="border:0" alt="Technorati Chart" /></a><br /><a href="http://technorati.com/chart/iphone?sub=chartlet">Get your own chart!</a><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/iPhone" rel="tag">iPhone</a>dorionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17359811108200859822noreply@blogger.com3