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Monthly Archive - November 2006

   November 29 2006 11:49 AM
 
Domains and Directions
Lewis Sellers

It's no great secret that I'm not happy with any of the domain names used by our little community site. Though I have grown rather attached to 10-east.com and citizenj.info. The problem is that domain squatters seem to be sitting on most every domain that might make for a good name. Eventually we'll come up with something memorable and unique of course for the final and permanent name for the site.

In the meantime, I ran across an interesting article on the keys to a successful citizen journalism site at the Poynet Institute. We've done most of these, or are working on them. :)


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   November 28 2006 06:01 PM
 
Brainstorming a domain name for your business online?
Lewis Sellers

Then DO NOT use any websites that offer to do domain lookups for you to look to see if the domain is available. Just type the url in directly in the browser, or use a program that can do what is called a "whois" for you. (The Network Utility app that comes standard on the Macintosh will do this for you. On Windows the program called "Sam Spade" is fairly good at this as well.)

Why?

In recent years a huge scam called (by some) "domain kiting" has really taken off. Basically, spammers and their ilk are using the 5-day money-back requirement of all domain name purchases to automatically buy up 30+ million domains a year esssentially for free. And where are they getting the suggestions for these domain names their computer programs are automatically buying up? You guessed it. Apparently some websites are feeding the domain names you're looking up into these programs, which buy them … and then you have to buy the domain from them at a much higher price.

So keep your domain names to yourself, until the very last minute. FYI.


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   November 13 2006 02:07 PM
 
The Future?
Lewis Sellers

Well, we haven't (or I haven't at least) had much time to work on or promote the site recently. Doesn't mean you just can't go ahead and use it as of course. :) Maybe we'll get around to doing that properly by the year end. Just as well. It could use a bit of time to be tested and have all the rough edges smoothed out.

In other news, Cynthia Rosenberry is (among other things) taking over as the regular webmaster for graingertoday.com. The position was previously held by James Zachary. If you hadn't guessed by now, she's also the webmaster of this site as well.


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   November 10 2006 07:10 PM
 
Cows for Sale
Lewis Sellers

I was glancing through the logs for this site (citizen j) just now. Know what most people are googling for that brings them here? You guessed it. Cows. In every shape and form, they're coming here because someone mentioned they have cows for sale.

(Oh, and of course lots of people visiting are interested things like politics and pottery and the like … but it's the cows man. It's the cows that are the big draw. :) )

Speaking of cows — trivia side note: Ever see www.fatcow.com advertising in Wired Magazine? Their name came about because, when I was working on their original website many years ago (before they had settled on a name), I posted a photo of some local cows sitting under a tree. Moo jokes insued. For weeks. It just seemed appropriate after that I guess.

Yep, the original fatcow was a Grainger County cow. :)


Anyway... back to to work. Ug.


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   November 08 2006 03:27 PM
 
Evil Men
Lewis Sellers

George Walker Bush is the Anti-Christ.

Yes, I mean the actual Anti-Christ. Yes, the One from the Bible. End of Times. War. Famine. Pestilence. Death. All that. Yes, that one.

It's just something I've pretty much come to terms with over the last few years. And I'm fine with it. I mean of course, I stopped watching television about three years ago because I was sick of watching where the world was going and what was happening, and having to stare at his face all the time. But other than that, I'm fine with it.

Why? Well, true, there's lots of evil been done, and still more to come, but at the end of it all, in a few years, there is supposed to be a thousand years of peace on the Earth. That doesn't sound so bad. I suppose you just have to look at the bright side of things.... Yea, sure, so a false messiah is walking the earth, destroying everything in his path, subjugating the world … yadda, yadda, at least we know that, one way or the other, it's not going to last. And there will be some nice times ahead. A few years out anyway ...


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   November 04 2006 10:21 AM
 
$100 laptop
Lewis Sellers

I want one! Yes, I know. The $100 laptops are supposed to be children's laptop, given out by the millions to kids around the world for education purposes, but I still want one. Or two.

They're just so very cool.

laptop.org


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