Yet another photo of Muggezifter’s behind
Step 1: Buy camera
Step 2: Set the timer for a self-portrait
Step 3: Mistakenly set timer for 2 seconds
Step 4: Run!
Step 5: Repeat Steps 3-4 at various locations in Holland
Step 6: Post resulting pictures on blog
Step 7: Watch traffic roll in that surpasses most other blogs
One of our favorite blogs here at Independent Sources is the econoblog Marginal Revolution. Thus it was with great pleasure that we came across this Los Angeles Times front page business section story about them and its primary writer Tyler Cowen.
Cowen describes his fans as “high IQ, possibly nerdy, looking for kicks or for something [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Pretty big upgrade over at Technorati as they work to avoid becoming irrelevant in the world they helped create. At first glace I like it but part of me found comfort in the familiarity of the previous version. Also, being a creature of habit, I’m not sure how many of the changes are in fact [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I’m up late and decided to look at the Independent Sources stats. One of the packages we use is the free version of StatCounter which shows the last 100 visitors. This is what I saw when I looked at the “countries” tab:
We seem to be quite popular in the Kingdom of Norway this evening and [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Blog posts will start again tomorrow.
Well at least one person appears happy about my return.
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)…and Hiltzik is not alone in his breach, Patterico, LA Observed, Media Bistro, Independent Sources and 24,620 or so other blogs or blog postings have violated the published terms of service of the Los Angeles Times web site.
In fact, this very sentence you are reading violates Los Angeles Times web site policy which states:
Links [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Reader tip:
Independent Sources currently makes its stories available in their entirety via RSS. If you are not taking advantage of this technology then you really should. There are a number of ways to do this including My Yahoo and Firefox. However you might want to try a dedicated RSS reader like Bloglines. It takes just [...]
“nude arianna huffington”
Yes, that’s how a visitor found Independent Sources today. We’re the #9 result because we wrote about Arianna Huffington and nude Australian models on the same day.
Bon voyage, odd person — we wish you well on your quest.
Technorati chief David Sifry’s most recent “State of the Blogosphere” post is up:
Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs
The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months
It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago
Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour
Over [...]
On Tuesday, my pager went off indicating abnormal traffic pattern on Independent Sources. We were getting an unusual amount of search engine traffic for “Holly Ashcraft” as well as other related terms like “USC baby trash.” It turns out that Law & Order was running a show with a plot line mirroring the Ashcraft case. [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If anyone knows a good host for a Wordpress blog, please let us know.
We’ve been with Lunarpages since our inception and have recommended them to many friends. However, they say that Independent Sources is using too much of our shared server’s resources, so we either pay $99 / month for a dedicated box, or move [...]
PoynterOnline reports that at a major Norwegian news website, the two most popular posts for 2005 were about how to save 50% on hotel rooms, and how to speed up your PC. The top story about sex — “Naked Singer Performs Oral Sex On Stage” — was #3.
But they didn’t cover “Varm Lesbian Kjønn [...]
After three days on Tookie watch, I needed to do a story that doesn’t involve murder, execution, mayhem, mis-guided celebrities, etc. I came up with this:
The Gloves Come Off at LA Observed (sort of):
Independent Sources readers are already familiar with LA Observed since we point there frequently. In their own words, LA Observed doesn’t attempt [...]
The regular reader(s) of Independent Sources know that lately we have been doing a lot of soul searching. (See Sen. Admin. Official’s post earlier today on this topic.) When I read his post I wondered if we shouldn’t simply give the people what they want. To do this all we have to do is see [...]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)November was a bit of a disappointment to this writer. Several posts that I thought had potential simply failed to take off. Click through to the following to see if I am just flat-out wrong:
Bill Said To Use Every Icon In The Clip Art Library …: You think you’ve seen bad Powerpoint presentations? Wait until [...]
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