July 24, 2002

  • Shameless Marketing Ploy of the Day:  I just received another AOL 7.0 CD proclaiming that it’s “NEW”.  Well, version 7.0 isn’t exactly new, so what is it that their claiming as “NEW”?  Aha!  They are now offering 1025 hours “free” for 45 days instead of the old, stingy 1000 hours “free” for 45 days.  Well, seeing that 45 days only has 1080 hours to begin with, that leaves only 55 hours over 45 days when I can’t be online.  Whoopee!  So instead of the previous tightfisted average of  22.22 hours per day I can now spend a much more openhanded 22.78 hours per day on AOL during my free trial period!  Ain’t that a cat’s meow?!


    Minor Pet Peeve:  The Xanga “Search” function is broken again.  It seems that this function is about as reliable as an old used car whose spark plugs are constantly fouling due to piston wear failure so that unless you pull, clean, and reset them every couple of days, you’re bound to grovel with predictable dysfunction.


    Yet the real shame is that there’s no fallback to other established search engines such as Google to peruse one’s pages either.  Sure, Google provides a lot of hits for “Xanga” and for specific blog-names, too.  But the contents of one’s blog seem to go unspidered and thus remain part of the “Dark Internet”, i.e., information and pages on the internet that cannot be searched or located by any public domain search engines.   That’s fine if you prefer more privacy (but then why do you blog publicly to begin with?), but a drawback if you’re seeking to popularize your ideas. 

    So you could originate an idea or coin a term here on Xanga that someone else could “borrow” and popularize in the “Light” (i.e., public domain searchable) Internet, and others searching for the originator/creator of the idea or term could end up crediting the “borrower” rather than you here on “Dark” Xanga. 

    I suppose one way around this would be to “mirror” one’s posts on a searchable/regularly-spidered domain.  I’m not sure right now if having one’s own domain (such as fairestc’s  www.christydawn.com) sponsored through Xanga brings it into the Light or not.  I shall begin an investigation forthwith!


    More than a thought:  It’s estimated that there are about 1 million words in the English language.  In your venerated estimation, is such a surfeit inducing gratuitous loquaciousness or a dearth hampering the potential for further perspicuity ?

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