I just finished watching the Disk is the New RAM video which a number of bloggers have been talking about. If you’re lazy like me you can just read this blog post to get a nutshell on this theory of computing. FYI, I transcoded it in my scalecast podcast if you want to watch it [...]
Categories: clustering
OK gang. I need help. I’m SLAMMED with work but I’d really like to find SOME way to alert these bloggers who have had their blogs compromised by this Trojan/Worm. These people are going to be REALLY harmed by this since Google’s probably just going to zero out their pagerank for a while. I need [...]
Categories: wordpress
When I started looking at SSDs I compared the various Mtron models and they have a 32GB drive (vs 64GB) that prices out at $15/GB. That’s a sweet spot so I decided to go with that model. Well now it looks like that specific model is being discontinued in favor of the higher end mode [...]
Spinn3r be at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media ICWSM this week. The conference looks great: The rapid creation and consumption of social media content continues to drive the evolution of the Internet and the Web. Social media content now accounts for the majority of content published daily on the web. As the [...]
Categories: spinn3r
In hindsight, this video was amazingly prescient. At the time I thought it was a bit over the top but it appears to be dead on. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo&hl=en]
Categories: politics
A new release of Spinn3r is around the corner and I wanted to publish a link to documentation of a new feature we’re shipping. We’re going to be releasing a new source API which allows our users to obtain the status of a weblog or register a new weblog (or feed) as a source within [...]
Categories: spinn3r
The zombie/trojan spam blogs are at it again tonight. I just caught another 5k stories published to Tailrank because of this recent blog spam torrent. There is clearly some unknown vulnerability that he must be exploiting. I’ve only done sample based auditing of about 20% of the links and they’re nearly 100% WordPress blogs ranging [...]
Just an FYI, Tailrank (and Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, pretty much anyone that crawls the web) was hit with a coordinated spam attack sometime last night and early this morning. This is similar to an attack that we found and documented before. Some jerk has hacked into a few hundred WordPress blogs and installed a trojan [...]
Categories: security
I guess the Bush administration jumped at the Opportunity to crush NASA’s Sprit (pun intended). This is horrible news. Ruins my month. For the record. $4M is nothing. Thats 13 minutes in Iraq. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the [...]
Categories: politics