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Not sure if anyone’s mentioned if recently, but I mean, shit, how long ago was it that Google Analytics started up, got deluged with demand, and promised more capacity? Talk about failing to deliver. If you’re going to stay free, come up with a model so that, like, people can use your free service. Otherwise, just charge for the damn thing.

It’s months later and I still can’t sign up. Amateurish.

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Useful page here: See Chicago’s CTA stops overlaid on Google maps.

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Fun little thing here called ChatFu to make a cartoon out of your IM conversation.

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Checking on trusty Drudge tonight, things seem particularly apocalyptic. Or melodramatic.

• “NORDIC STATES FEAR SPREAD OF ISLAMIC RAGE”
• “Defiant Tehran gives go-ahead on nuclear work…”
• “Editor arrested for publishing cartoons…”
• “Bites spread fatal ‘devil’ cancer…”
• “Lucifer ascends from underworld, plans talk show”

Okay, I made up that last one, but whatever.

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One of the biggest potential problems with the weblog format is also a hallmark and defining aspect of the blog: comments.
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Splogs (”spam blogs”) are nothing new, but perhaps the newly gray area between splogs and legitimate blogs is.

Splogs seemed to get popular about six months ago, but recently—within the past couple of months—it’s harder and harder to tell the difference between a straight-up splog and an unpopular, shitty blog trying to make ad revenue.

I’ve got a good example for you. A splog (or whatever) recently took an excerpt of my homage to my dishwasher and linked it. This splog is obviously trying to move up the SERPs for the term “consumer reports.” Yet the actual website is kinda legit: it doesn’t link to any porn or gambling sites, it has a normal blog design, and it even has a comment form with a CAPTCHA. That’s not sploggy.

So… is that just a linkblog?

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It’s very common for a small, close-knit group to develop a vocabulary or slang of its own. Obviously, the office is a perfect place for such jargon, although the words can become such a part of our daily lives that we no longer realize we’re part of a specialized niche with a specialized vocabulary that lacks a defined meaning outside of that group.

But enough of that intro. We’ve got two words at the office I want to tell you about:

• Jag - A jag is like a slacker, but with an utterly negative connotation. While sometimes “slacker” can be neutral or even subtly positive, a jag is just a worthless sonofabitch who should be doing work but isn’t. This is a highly useful term in the workplace.
• Shermanize - Until a week ago, I did not know this term was in use at my office. Since I come in later than the other guys for my morning cup of coffee, it seems they had a creative way of squeezing an extra cup of coffee out of the pot. In fact, shermanizing can be done while there’s still coffee in the pot, meaning the result will be diluted coffee. If the coffee is totally shermanized, it’s significantly weaker and basically tastes like haterade.

Yeah, uh, re: “shermanize,” joke was on me.

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