October 14th, 2009
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/09/28/133211/Reddit-Javascript-Exploit-Spreading-Virally?from=rss
An exploit based on off a bookmarklet that would automatically respond and reply to any comment on the redditt page. And later transformed to work with mouseover of any comment that it was embedded in. So if anyone moused over it would automatically use that users info to respond to every comment on the page.
This is the original code used I found after sifting through a lot of comments
http://reddit.pastebin.com/m5c223796
October 14th, 2009
wonderful, my server is down wtf
October 7th, 2009
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
Forgot to save this earlier this week on delicious, then i conveniently forgot to post. Basically it tells you the best option to use to dupe youtube from pulling your video with the latest backstreet boys song off the internet.
October 7th, 2009
Http://amidnightproject.com/umaine
September 28th, 2009
Test entry. http://www.amidnightproject.com
@allblog
September 28th, 2009
Another test, if it fails get over it.
September 28th, 2009
The Good
The most likely way my project will go viral will be by individuals on campus spreading my web address to other students. This will create a human to human network which will then (in theory) create a sprawl effect on the internet as people pass or post the link in various ways (via facebook, twitter, email). I think the most likely candidate for patient zero would be the Campus Newspaper possibly doing an article on the website, causing awareness and spreading the name. The best outcome would be a lot of awareness and traffic to the site.
The Bad
I feel as though the worst possible outcome is receiving emails from aggravated Umaine employees. I’m not really worried about that though. There is nothing they can do in regards to me pulling the website down since all the information is public to begin with. The only thing they can do is ask me to remove a logo if I choose to put one online.
The Ugly
I think the most likely reason it will fail before being noticed will be my inability to push the website name out there and get it known amongst the students. I think if I market it well, I could receive a lot of view form the student body. The other reason for failure I think would be a lack of interest from the students.
September 28th, 2009
Yahoo! Common Tag
http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-announces-common-tag-like-the-meta-keywords-tag-but-even-better-21021
Yahoo! wants to implement a new form of meta data, “common tags”. They say the use of common tags would be a way to make websites more discoverable by using a more structured data schema. The downside to this scheme is it would make it easier “link bomb” and fake keywords to make your website number one on the list instead of it becoming more relevant to the information that’s on it. There is really no upside to this compared to traditional meta data that does the same damn thing with a keyword and content tag in the meta. This could be useful for me to gain more relevance with the University of Main website.
Goggle Bomb!
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/%27Google_Bomb%27_an_Enemy
The article talks how you can force a page to be more relevant then the actual website by link bombing. Essentially getting tons of people to link to the same thing to force different search results. Like when people all linked to the Church of Scientology with the phrase “dangerous cult”. This could be useful to make my website more relevant the Umaine by creating links all over the place to my website using the phrase “umaine” or something relative.
September 23rd, 2009
Twitter as a collective mood ring
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/using-twitter-as-a-collective-mood-ring/?partner=rss&emc=rss
Pretty interesting actually. Peter Sheridan Dodds and Christopher M. Danforth, both statisticians from the university of vermont developed a program that would scan about 1000 tweet per minute, gathering data on keywords and trying to relate peoples tweets to their mood. The two developed this to try and get a realtime update on peoples reactions to whatever may be happening to them or reactions to a certain event by keying up on specific words. The information is specifically useful to business because it can determine peoples acceptance of particular events, which you can than use to gear your marketing campaign and the hit the right demographics. Interesting eh?
Wordpress plugins
http://www.binaryturf.com/my-top-25-wordpress-plugins/
More specifically some random dudes top 25 plugins, but one stood out to me that I would mention since this is a contagious media class and were all about being in peoples face with information in every possible location. A plug in called PingPressFM (http://www.soldoutactivist.com/pingpressfm) will take all your all your posts and submit it to Ping.FM, which is then capable of updating about 30 network sites like facebook and twitter. I am going to experiment with this. Pretty interesting eh?
