random geek notes

[cellio]

Someone at MIT is doing what looks to be an interesting blog survey. It appears that, even though they ask people to spread the news via their blogs, they didn't anticipate the resulting demand on the server. So it may take a few tries to get the server to talk to you.

I wonder if LJ's addition of tags is going to cause people to change the way we partition our posts. Will we tend toward more-numerous, tightly-focused posts, for the benefit of tagging? Or will we keep doing what we already do and if a post has a dozen tags so what? Time will tell.

Earlier this week Dani and I got email from a friend saying, roughly, "so-and-so from the old net days is in town; we've never met or anything, but how about we all get together for dinner?". This sounded just off-the-wall enough to be fun. The person's name was vaguely familiar (Dani spent more time on the relevant newsgroups than I did), but "put random unknown geeks in a room together and see what happens" can be fun sometimes. (This is different from "have dinner with $net.celebrity", where the participants don't feel equal.)

Comments

[cellio]

HTTP won't get me, but incorrect assumptions about linger time could. "Gee, you opened Slashdot, and half an hour later you went to Dilbert -- obviously you spent half an hour reading Slashdot when you should have been working". Except that would typically be wrong.

Now presumably their IT people aren't stupid, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a pointy-haired moron out there somewhere with access to the logs.