amber_lux's Journal: Blogs that aren't

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I'm still thinking about that anonymous blog thing that was discussed on /. the other day.

I can see why somebody would want to use that service, but the other half of me is why bother, since the odds of anybody else reading the blog journal are slim, to non-existent.

There are a couple of people with high profiles in the blogworld, and then a couple of hundred thousand who are way below anybody's radar. Like anybody who uses /. as a blog. Might get noticed by one or two people on /., but nobody else.

Do a google search for the string "/." sometime. Nothing shows up. Low profile, bad algorithm, or something else? True, slashdot gets 2 930K listings.

K5, OTOH, gets 711K hits. Kuro5hin gets 405K.

People prefer the abbreviations, and google doesn't handle some abreviations well.

The point being somebody could put the entire life somewhere like /. journals, and nobody would ever find the page.

Do a google search for the string Wind under Thy Wings, and a whopping one site shows up. Their suggested Wind under The Wings has a total of 39 sites. IOW, it would be very easy for somebody to own either, or both of those expressions. But only if they are one of those high profile bloggers, that google hits on a daily basis.

Wind under Thy Wings

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