IDblog ... an information design weblog

July 01, 2003
Go figure...

Hmmm, for the last couple of days, weblogs.com has been timing out when MT sends an IDblog ping to it. I wonder if that's a Dave Winer feature :).

Anyways, the result of this is that I keep getting pointed to MT's activity log when this timeout happens. This wouldn't be newsworthy, except that as I posted awhile back, I added search to IDblog when I upgraded to the latest version of MT.

Besides timed-out pings, the activity log also shows what folks are searching for on IDblog, and that turns out to be really, really curious. For example:

  • minnesota
  • palm beach
  • fuuny word for matrimony
  • Honda

Well, I can guess the last one (most likely they were looking for the Honda cog ad). But I can't guess why someone would search for the first three on an information design weblog. Maybe they thought it was really a Google search?

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