Ever heard of Technorati? If not, then you may not have seen these stats: they track over 93 million blogs, and according to their data, there are over 175,000 new blogs created daily and updated at the rate of 1.6 million posts per day. 100 million blogs will happen in just 35 days at this rate. Wow. No wonder I’m subscribed to over 200 RSS feeds and still keep finding new ones every day.
Technorati just doesn’t report this data, but they give you the viewer a website to show how these blogs perform and more importantly, how they relate to each other - who’s linking to who, who’s quoting who, etc.
Oh yeah, go check out my Technorati page for this blog. It’s just a little baby page right now, b/c I didn’t do a good job of telling Technorati about my blog to begin with. Link to me, would ya?
July 25, 2007 at 1:49 AM · Filed under Internet, Misc
Either you already know how this works, or you’re going to say I’m crazy or that this was interesting and/or perhaps worth a chuckle. Reading the news recently, I came across the story on the giant squid that was found washed up on an Australian beach. For some reason, this led me to thinking about Octopi (and how they’re pretty intelligent), so I wandered over to Wikipedia to do some reading. I scanned the article, but somehow this external link at the bottom caught my eye “footage of an octopus eating a shark”. I had to jump over and see that! Here it is (pretty amazing video, although you should be forewarned that it’s very much one of those violent, raw wildlife scenes).
Anyway, you can see how easily you can get taken in and taken for a ‘ride’ by the Web, and that either I have ADD, or just a ridiculous wandering attention. I can’t even remember where I went after this. Probably watched a bunch of videos and then got sidetracked into wanting to learn something about some subject that popped up. Ah, if only I could stay up longer and not have to work…
HTML 5 is on the horizon and may be showing up in a browser near you in a few years. I wrote up a piece on this over at GfG. I can’t say I’m looking forward to this.
Yet another very cool, very online version of a traditionally desktop application is Gliffy. Gliffy is a very capable, although obviously not as feature-rich tool as its desktop counterpart, Visio. But who cares? Most of us really don’t. Using most of these tools, like Excel or Word or even Visio to its fullest extent requires a lot of time and experience. After all, games have been developed in Excel. Games! Your typical online spreadsheet doesn’t have that power, nor should it. I’m typically the first in line for more features, but not in this case. Let’s leave these online apps nice and small and quick, and they will serve the majority of users out there.
I know that the ‘dedicated’ web surfers among you are already scoffing at how late I’ve found these latest viral videos, but the reason I decided to post them was because I was thinking of a comment that a comedian made about how the Internet is important: “there are people dying to see videos of Mentos mints turning Coke bottles into volcanoes.”
So these guys (EepyBird.com) took the whole Mentos in Diet Coke thing and ran with it. Very far. To the point of entertainment, 3 minutes at a time. They actually have quite a few videos of them conducting ‘experiments’ with Coke and Mentos mints. And while their source materials are free, courtesy of their manufacturers, the exposure they (both) gain is tremendous (wonder what kind of $ they make…).
So onto the important stuff, the videos! They’ve got more than this, but I liked the ones where they did a whole Bellagio water fountain thing and then a cascading dominoes show.
In case you noticed that I posted a new article over at my Yahoo Groups mailing list, and then didn’t see anything since, it’s because I’ve completely moved over to my blog at kjh.com. If you know anything about RSS, subscribe to my feed!
For those of you used to seeing e-mails, you can do 1 of 2 things: you can enter your e-mail address into the box at the top right-hand corner of my blog, and you’ll get updates whenever I post something. OR… you can do the cool, new elegant thing and use an RSS reader to subscribe to my (and other people’s) blogs. BTW, not only blogs have RSS feeds. Oh yes, I guess I should describe what RSS is. But… I won’t reinvent the wheel. Hereareafewdefinitions that you can chew on.
I’ll point out 3 Web-based RSS readers and how you can use them for free to access my feed, but there are many others. There are software-based RSS readers as well, but the cool thing about Web-based ones is that you can jump onto any computer, sign in, and there are all of your feeds.
Here’s another reason to be thankful I don’t live in a country with limited freedoms. While it’s not an outright ban, China recently moved to put discourage teenage online gamers from spending too much time online. ISPs and online Internet gaming companies need to install new software that would cut a player’s virtual points in half once they get to the 3 hour mark. After 5 hours of playing, they wouldn’t get any [points]. It’s not clear whether this is a per day/per week or other time window limitation.
Dang, how could we ever have played those all night Starcraft sessions? Granted, those were just for ladder rankings, and I wasn’t trying to build up enough loot to sell anything for real cash, but still. Isn’t game addiction among kids like anything else? Ever notice how no one talks about kids watching too much TV any more?
Yet another very cool, very online version of a traditionally desktop application is 
I know that the ‘dedicated’ web surfers among you are already scoffing at how late I’ve found these latest viral videos, but the reason I decided to post them was because I was thinking of a comment that a comedian made about how the Internet is important: “there are people dying to see videos of Mentos mints turning Coke bottles into volcanoes.”