Solved: The Mystery of the Incoming Links
As every one on my blog roll will tell you, every time I post they all get an ‘incoming link’ from my site on their WordPress dashboard, despite the fact that I hadn’t actually linked to them in my post.
Now for a while this was great! I was getting all the blogging big-wigs I link to reading my posts! According to Goggle Analytics I had everyone from Renee to Aral coming to my site, referred from the tell-tale ‘/wp-admin/’ page on their blog. But, like all good things, I knew it had to end - I couldn’t keep spamming these nice people.
The only person who links to me that has the same problem is Andrew, so what did I have in common with Andrew that we didn’t share with say Rob? We all have different themes, and I’m still using the default, so I’d be damned if it was a bug with that.
Then it hit me, Andrew is a nerd like me and I bet he’s set his blog to ping Technorati every time he updates! I jumped on to the WordPress forums to see if any one else had this problem with Technorati, I couldn’t find any mention of it but I did spot that WordPress had an IRC Support Channel.
After the usual two minute awkward pause while I contemplated how best to interrupt these people’s New Year’s Eve planning with my stupid problems… I asked away and was told that it was down to Technorati’s messed up ness
, so I smiled and wished them a happy New Year.
So, in short, I’ve removed Technorati’s ping from my WordPress options page which I hope will fix the problem!
South Park Libertarians
I found this interesting interview with the creators of South Park this evening.
It talks about some of the stories behind the stories on the show and their view of politics and religion. They also spell out their view of people who choose to illegally download episodes off the internet:
We’re always in favor of people downloading. Always. It’s how a lot of people see the show and it’s never hurt us. We’ve done nothing but been successful with the show. How could you ever get mad about somebody who wants to see your stuff? We worked really hard making that show, and the reason you do it is because you want people to see it.
They also touch on the infamous Muhammad episode, Carton Wars:
Parker: When we did the Muhammad episode, we got flowers from the Simpsons people because we ripped on Family Guy. Then we got calls from the King of the Hill people saying, “You’re doing God’s work ripping on Family Guy.� Even though it was this big political thing about Muhammad and whatever, everyone was just, “Thank you for you ripping on Family Guy.�
Google overtakes Technorati
As reported by The Register.
I’d always thought that one day Technorati would unite all us bloggers in an open social networking paradise and together we’d tear down the MySpaces of the world…
But not today.
More Monkey Press for Ceros!
I know, I know… It’s Christmas Day and I should be passed out having ODed on turkey etc…. or playing with all my lovely presents, but never the less Technorati has brought to my attention two more organic blogs about Ceros! What’s interesting about these is they dare to stray into the negative. Which is a good thing as their complaints are the same as ours and have been discussed at great length by the team. Hopefully this means we are bang on the right track for our next roll out.
So with out further-a-do, I give you Dennis launches odd online-only lads mag
, which links to an article about Monkey in Media Week and anther article in The Business. The other blog entry Technorati found was Digital Magazines - is Monkey Mag the future?.
In other news, I hope every one had a good Christmas!
Happy Christmas!
War is Over!
(if you want it)
Happy Christmas from everyone at lyingonthecovers.net (mainly me).
“Made in the Sade”
While I was doing some research into my Google Analytics stats I found this review of Hostel.
The thing that interested me about it was that it found political undertones that passed me by (not being American). It also draws a comparison with Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salo, which was an adaptation of Sade’s infamous torture-heavy novel The 120 Days of Sodom with the political back drop of 1940’s Fascist Italy.
Is it any marvel that [torture’s] loaded political implications and sexualized impact have surfaced in our cinematic nightmares? At the return of the repressed or the oppressed to the movie theater, we’ve entered the picture — enjambed in the frame like Lynndie England, often becoming complicit in the violence as Hostel’s Paxton does, aping his tormenters.