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Posts from February 2008

New theme and an upgrade

A few days ago, I noticed that after my hosting service “upgraded” their management system that my posts here started to appear in chronological order, rather than reverse chronological order like a normal blog. Not knowing how to fix this, I decided to upgrade WordPress to version 2.3.3. This fixed the problem, though I’m still [...]


Why I won’t run advertisements on AngryJournalist.com

A few friends of mine asked me why I refused to put up advertising on AngryJournalist.com, even something as simple as a few text ads from Google AdSense despite it being relatively successful in terms of traffic. I have a few reasons for this.
First, I really dislike advertising. I run the Adblock plugin on [...]


Two weeks later, reflecting back at the AngryJournalist.com experiment

It’s been two weeks since I announced the launch of AngryJournalist.com and since that time the site has exceeded every expectation I held for it. However, it comes with a mixed feelings about its so-called success, and I still see no solution for the problems that plague the journalism industry.
In just half a month, the [...]


Announcing AngryJournalist.com

Today, I launched AngryJournalist.com. Here’s its motto:
AngryJournalist.com is for the underpaid, overworked, frustrated, pissed off and ignored media professionals to publicly and anonymously vent their anger. Share your story. With any luck, you’ll feel better.
The site has a simple prompt for visitors: Why are you angry today?
Anyone may write their rant about what’s causing them [...]


Amid tragedy, dedicated reporting in fatal Kirkland city council shooting

You’ve probably heard already about the fatal shooting in Kirkland, but I couldn’t help to notice this detail in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s story:
Dave Bundy, the editorial director for the Suburban Journals, said that one of the newspaper’s reporters, Todd Smith, was injured in the attack.
“We don’t know if it was a ricochet or what, [...]


LIVEBLOG: Super Duper Fat Tuesday 2008 Primary Election

I’ll be liveblogging the 2008 presidential primaries for Super Duper Fat Tuesday via Twitter. You can follow me at the account illinoizeyoshi, or use the RSS feed here. I’ll also have the last 20 updates embedded below.
I’ll be reposting this liveblog Twitter feed over at Illinoize as well throughout the evening. It’ll be random [...]


Chicagoland presidential campaign contributions Google map mashup

Not that the comparison above between Republican and Democratic donors from Chicago is any surprise, but the Huffington Post has a nice Google Maps mashup that geographically charts presidential campaign contributions.
Found any other nifty charts, graphs, maps, interactive Flash apps, etc. that deals with the primaries tomorrow? Put them in the comments, I’d love [...]


Website traffic: Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton

Ever since I read a friend’s Facebook note that Barack Obama’s servers were crushed by the power of hope, I wondered how his traffic levels compared to Hillary Clinton’s.
So, who’s received more Internet traffic? Answer: It’s all in how you measure traffic, which means there’s no clear winner here.
Using the site Compete.com to compare site [...]


Hope crushes Obama’s servers for several hours

For at least 4 hours, Barack Obama’s campaign Web site has displayed that image above. His Web site is down, servers overloaded just mere hours before the polls open for Super Duper Fat Tuesday tomorrow.
It didn’t come online fully until about midnight on Monday evening.
While some might see this as a good sign for [...]