The hottest post on WordPress is a non-post at Fallout 3 a Post-Nuclear Blog. Go figure.
It’s only a number: 1207468165327.
If you click to the post, you get a note apologizing, but telling you you’re looking for something that isn’t there.
Is P. Z. Myers right, that popularity on a blog generates more popularity? Or is that number significant to someone, somewhere — to many someones?
A magic code to generate traffic, perhaps? Ah, the Mysteries of the Intertubes, as Sen. Ted Stevens would say.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Ignoble Gases nicely describes the mashup between on-line mapping services and digital photography, with a bit of blogging thrown in.
Mapping services now have the capacity to link photographs of a site with its exact latitude and longitude, or exact address. Maps of cities can feature links to photos of the site (other than satellite or aerial photos) submitted by readers, and other descriptive material.
So, geography teachers: Have your kids mapped out your town and put it on the web to encourage tourism? Great discussion topics: What are the advantages of such technologies, and what are the parent-scaring disadvantages, or dangers of them?
I really cannot do justice to the concepts here — read the article at Ignoble Gases.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 