Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Tag: Glenn

  • Email Harvesters

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    I missed the story about brothers convicted of harvesting emails the first time. Well, I noticed a followup. Back around 2001, the CIO received complaints about performance for the web server. So, I went log trolling to see what the web server was doing. A single IP dominated the HTTP requests. This one IP passed…

  • The Twitter Timesink

    Glenn asked: “What is it about Twitter that makes it more of a time sink than Facebook?” I consider a time sink something where I invest a high value of time for boring and poor value. My contacts mostly duplicate in Twitter what they provide in Facebook. The time I spend reading Twitter posts I’ve…

  • Badly behaved

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    This article has sat in the back of my mind for quite a while. It is one the major reasons I use Bloglines. I doubt we are being inundated by them. One can always hope…. Boing Boing: Badly behaved RSS readers gobble bandwidth Glenn Fleishman has posted some analysis of the impact of RSS aggregators…