Monthly Archives: April 2008

In Defense Of Twitter (Not That It Needs Defending, But … )

So Hugh Mcleod has deleted his Twitter account.
{First question new bloggers might have is “who is Hugh McLeod?”, in which case here are a things I’ve picked up: the dudehas been blogging for a long time; he draws pictures on the back of business cards; he is known for, amongst other things, being funny, and [...]

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UPDATE: Has ZDnet Been Hacked As Well?

Update: 4.7.08 @ 2115h: Looks like ZDNet was hit, as per John’s comment below, via an xml-rpc hack, and no — they aren’t running an old version of WP either, which makes one wonder how vulnerable the newer versions of Wordpress are.
Just to recap: earlier, I documented how Tailrank’s “spam” was accidentally documenting some massive [...]

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Breaking! TailRank Exposes Massive Number Of Blogs Hacked

UPDATE 4.7.08: Looks like ZDnet was hacked as well (although they’ve since cleaned up)
So in some innocent conversation earlier today with Allen Stern, he noticed that Tailrank was getting hammered with spam, via Tailrank’s River — something Duncan Riley also noticed. To be honest, I’ve noticed it as well, noting snarkily that perhaps it [...]

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But, Could Stress Increase Your Risk Of A Heart Attack?

A lot’s been written about this piece at the New York Times seemingly linking prolific blogging habits to — well, an early demise.  Without rehashing too much of what other bloggers have said, its a bit of an idiotic piece for two reasons:
i) There are many successful bloggers who do *NOT* work on that kind [...]

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