Danny Sullivan, Chris Sherman and Barry Schwartz are starting a new SEM blog, called Search Engine Land. The official launch date is December 11. Looking forward to reading it. Should be a good one.
a truly incredible collection of hand-drawn images of different credit card statements (updated monthly "until they are paid off") & a daily updated series of drawings of different products that the artist bought on that particular day.
see also week in review & doodle graphs & illustrated idioms & hand-drawn sheep market.
[link: obsessiveconsumption.com & flickr.com|via eyebeam.org]
<span style="font-size: 0px;"> </span>已经几个月收不到各种TrackBack Ping了，应该是升级到MT3.3以后出现的。今天查了一下Trackback功能罢工原因 - flypig.org：超出了每小时和每天的trackback有次数上限，而缺省配置文件中没有表明相应选项（缺省的没小时和每天的trackback ping的上限是10和50）；
OneHourMaxPings 10
OneDayMaxPings 50
每天上千的垃圾trackback很快将这个限额填满了（我的blog上目前有这个限制后平均每天只收到50多个垃圾ping），但正常的TRACKBACK随后也就进不来了……
所以在mt-config.cgi文件中，增大以下2个参数的上线就能解决了，比如：
OneHourMaxPings 5000
OneDayMaxPings 20000
MT能否改进一下TrackBack ping limit的统计机制呢？被归入spam的trackback不记入quota呢？
zhichunlu-900m Hosted on Zooomr作者：雅虎Widget产品小组
复旦大学――桌面革命，铺天盖地
南线的第一站是复旦大学，可以说那里的同学为我们南线的活动开了一个好头。讲座活动当天得到了大家的厚爱，同学们对Widget报以了极大的兴趣和热情，从支持程度到响应程度都给了我们信心。我们的讲师鉴于已经有了之前几次的演讲经历，因此在讲座的过程中很好的调动了同学们参与的积极性，也不断激发着大家对Widget产生丰厚的兴趣，使得复旦的讲座进展和互动环节的开展都非常顺畅。同学们对于这种寓教于乐的产品特别喜爱，也更坚定了我们为这款产品工作的激情。
讲师授课中 同学认真听讲
上海交通大学――一丝不苟，勤奋开拓
上海交通大学的同学给我们留下最深刻的印象就是认真，他们一丝不苟的态度深深打动了我们。在听讲师讲座的过程中，很多人都在认真的记着笔记，而且对于讲师讲座过程中所提出的问题，同学们都给予了积极认真的响应。提问环节，他们更是将讲课过程中记录的问题拿来和大家一同交流，颇有打破砂锅问到底的架势和决心。我们的讲师在讲课的过程中，兴奋而激动，把自己对Widget的体验和感受全盘托出和同学进行分享，交大的同学简直太认真了。
台上 台下
华南理工大学――疯狂英语，follow me！
在华南理工大学的讲座可谓好事多磨，是出现临时状况最多的一场。华南理工大学派出了强大的主持人阵容，一男一女。现场气氛在主持人和讲师的共同带动下，迅速活跃起来，在仅能容纳200人的教室中，集中了近400的同学，使得室内的气温也直线狂飙，头顶仅有的三个风扇根本无法对抗酷热的气氛。当讲座正在如火如荼进行中时，又发生了停电，当时讲师灵机一动，针对主持人在过程中对Widget的错误发音，开始了疯狂英语教学。同学们心领神会的积极配合，不多时，电流便在千呼万唤中恢复了正常。那次讲座的艰难而又快乐的过程让同学们更加深了对Widget的印象。
和同学在一起 讲座现场
中山大学――海外存知己，天涯若比邻
中山大学同学的活力和热情程度好的没话说，更巧的是，在讲座时Yahoo！Widget巧遇知音。我们在现场遇到了一位日本留学生，操着一口流利纯正中文的他告诉我们，他的另外一半就在Yahoo！日本工作，早在讲座之前，他已经对于Widget有了极大的了解和兴趣，趁着讲座的机会又能和我们yahoo！中国的工作人员进行面对面的交流沟通，他感到非常的高兴。由于广州本身室内温度偏高，再加上同学们的盛情难却，我们讲师铆足了功夫，在汗流浃背的情况下，完美的结束了当天的讲座。
与同学们合影 讲座现场
武汉大学――海阔凭鱼跃，天高任鸟飞
武汉大学有四个校区，面积不可谓不广，当天光临讲座的同学也不可谓不多。在武汉大学的高人气是给我们南线工作人员留下最深印象之一的地方。武汉当地同学的主动积极性也强烈的感染了我们。讲师的最大感想是，武大同学提的问题都相当的专业而且领悟能力极强，能将自己所学以致用，到处都散发着灵气，联想和贯穿的能力更是very very good！我们的讲座希望也能够给大家的学习和生活起到锦上添花和抛砖引玉的作用。顺便夸一句，武汉当地的小吃真是一级棒！
场面壮大 认真听讲
华中科技大学――一切皆有可能
华中科技大学是我们这次巡讲活动南线的最后一站，华中科大的校区也很大，讲座在热烈祥和的气氛下展开。华中科大的男同学参与讲座的尤其多，出于共鸣，大家对于我们Widget讲座中提到的问佛，世界杯足球和桌面车行产生了强烈的兴趣，问佛这款Widget在大家无限猜测中揭开了它的神秘面纱，赢得同学们的一片惊叹声。正是通过这样一些丰富生动的示例贯穿在我们的整个校园巡讲活动中，通过它们将Widget的一点一滴逐渐向同学们揭晓，带给大家一个奇幻想象的空间，Widget的“一切皆有可能”的理念也逐步深入人心。
同学积极发问 讲师抽取同学问卷
尾声：
Yahoo！Widget校园巡讲活动在大家的努力和辛勤中落下了帷幕。这段和同学们在一起的日子让我们记忆深刻。有欢乐，有共享，有探讨，有成长......他们的热情，执着，认真，积极与Widget的创意精神融合在一起，让所有参与到这次活动的人都更加坚定了信念。产品的每一步成长都离不开你们的关注，赞扬也好，批评也罢，都将是我们一往无前的动力。可爱的同学，亲切的校园，谢谢大家的支持和鼓励。请继续关注我们共同的精彩！
2 different redesigns of the controversial military slide illustrating the current situation in Iraq, posted here a couple of days ago. some of the original visual features seem to have been kept, such as the cryptic icons accompanying the categories.
the first version presents a 3D perspective of the data. the visual form conveys the path towards chaos, as measured by time & conflict factors, in its progression towards the foreground. the 2nd alternative offers a flat view of the same data, rendered as a 2-D barometer of order to chaos, with relevant timepoints signified on a yellow-red continuum.
which one do you like the most & why?
[link: frogdesign.com|thnkx Dave]
Once in a while you have to cut right to the chase. The BrowserFriendly service has been improved in multiple ways to become a more robust, flexible, and internationalized subscription landing page.
First of all, the service (along with the rest of FeedBurner) has been fully internationalized, so that the landing page can be understood easily in those many parts of the world that are ne pas English. You can now offer your subscribers language-specific versions of BrowserFriendly to help ease the subscription process to your feed. As of today, we offer Spanish (FuentaClara), Italian, Dutch, French, German and soon Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish versions of this free service within the BrowserFriendly section of the "Optimize" tab.
Accolades for this extension of service belong to the following group of delightful FeedBurner customers around the world:
Snaps to Simon Loubris for the dual language processing there. Well done.
Next, the new "Always use my selected landing page in all browsers" option within BrowserFriendly gives publishers the ability to easily create feed subscription landing pages that work consistently now in all browsers without having to build these landing pages into a content management system and customize a bunch of subscription buttons. To say that we've had oodles of requests for this capability would be an understatement, but then "oodles" is subjective enough that you could also say it's an overstatement.
We've also enabled publishers to customize the variety and quantity of subscribe buttons that appear on the page, which should be a welcome new capability for publishers that didn't like our "one size fits all" selection of aggregator buttons on BrowserFriendly. We know a bunch of these services will be delighted to see their subscribe buttons among the options, and we further know that there will be another host of services that would like the opportunity to be included. Fear not! We are going to completely open up this service so that publishers can plug in any subscribe button for any service they like. That's coming soon.
It strikes us just now that we don't hear the phrase "Fear not!" enough anymore, but this may be due to the fact that we work in software services and really, 'Fear not!' is probably more of a Musketeer thing if you think about it. Nonetheless...