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On Free Advice and the Email Etiquette of Strangers

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

Thanks to this site (and despite the cheeky disclaimer on the Contact page), I probably get three to five unsolicited email questions from strangers a week. A few years ago, I used to ignore 60% of these emails.
Over time, I’ve observed how people I admire like Tim Bray and Seth Godin work hard to answer […]

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Wikigroaning, An Wikipedia Article Length Redux

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Geoff linked to my post about the peculiar article length trends in Wikipedia, and also referenced a Something Awful article entitled “The Art of Wikigroaning“. What’s Wikigroaning?
For example, the article called “Knight“. Then, find a somehow similar article that is longer, but at the same time, useless to a very large fraction of the population. […]

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LazyWeb Request: What’s With These Subdomains?

Monday, May 28th, 2007

I have a web admin question that’s beyond my meagre knowledge. Quite by accident today, I discovered that when you go to, say:
http://foo.capulet.com
You get a link farmy landing page. Which, obviously, doesn’t belong to us. Is this an exploit and is there some server-side setting I need to change? Or is this totally normal and […]

Continue reading entry #4013

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Legalizing Guitar Tablature Online
Second Life in Japan, and Get a First Life in Japanese
When Government Websites Go Wrong
The Weird Top List at Squidoo and a Better Google Zeitgeist
I’m Thinking of Selling GeekyTraveller.com

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