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Monday, June 17, 2002
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Web gives a voice to Iranian women
The web is providing a way for women in Iran to talk freely about taboo subjects such as sex and boyfriends.
Over the past few months there has been a big jump in the number of Persian weblogs which are providing an insight into a closed society.
The article that there are 1,200 persian blogs. Are there any in english? Or translations?
5:23:40 PM  Google It!
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Choosing a DOCTYPE
Day 6 of 30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog
Mark Pilgrim finally gets to what we can do.
You start your sentences with a capital letter; start your HTML with a DOCTYPE. It's just basic grammar.
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If you have a DOCTYPE, don't change it. However, if your source shows no DOCTYPE before your tag, add [one].
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Note that every page of your weblog should include a DOCTYPE, so you should check all your templates.
5:03:43 PM Google It!
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Everybody Blogs It
I have already started suffering from Scripting.com abstinence. I keep reloading and reloading that page but nothing changes.
While Dave recovers for this week (get well soon Dave, and please, to everybody who is listening: don't let him touch a computer! Most probably he needs to take a break), here's an experiment: let's blog together to fill the scripting.com gap, just for this week. [more via Paolo]
4:39:38 PM Google It!
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Random Tea, Yum
Something Different: A New Approach to Your Personal Caffeination or "The Random Tea"
I don't know what it is about Systems Administration (aka SysAdmin) work but nothing causes me to consume more caffeine than this type of task. And I consume it by the gallon, not quart, not liter, when things are, ahem, interesting. So, Friday, when the diet coke had run out, the local convenience store was either closed for the night or not yet open in the morning (yes -- everything is just blurring together lately) and I came up with this:
- A Large Pitcher
- Cold Water
- 2/3s of the normal quantity of Lipton's Ice Tea mix -- the heavily synthetic kind -- that hasn't ever seen "Tea".
- 1 packet of Kool-Aid mix, a powered fruit drink mix.
Now here's the cool part: Kool-Aid Switchin Secrets. This is a packet of the drink mix where they don't tell you flavor and the colors don't match the taste. So I've had Strawberry Ice Tea that was green. And Orange Ice Tea that was red. A little bizarre but kind fun.
I should try that out, I already do the Ice "Tea" thing.
4:15:17 PM Google It!
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True... True...
Kuro5hin is Broke: But Am I All that Surprised?
"There is a fundamental disconnect between users of sites and designers of sites. I am a huge believer in cheap human factors testing, what I call, the "Give it Mom" test. This is where you just give your site to someone, perhaps Mom, and watch how they perform on simple tasks. I've done this probably a dozen or more times and the site NEVER is the same afterwards. Of course, if Mom is a *nix Kernel Hacker, you should try Dad. Or your little sister. If those fail then someone random off the street. My real point is that there are two types of usability testing and one is expensive and uses highly trained professionals and is a big investment. The other type is just you getting decent input from real people and then actually following it. I like the second approach a lot." [The FuzzyBlog!]
Here's another reason why scoop sites are insane:
- Load up a random story like this one.
- Go down between the bottom of the story and the beginning of the comments and change any of the settings and hit 'Set'.
- Now try to copy/blog/bookmark the URL of the resulting page and you'll be in for a supprise.
I run into that problem all the time and it really pisses me off sometimes 
That said, kuro5hin is still broke and needs your help so either, buy a text ad or if you actually use the site, get a premium membership.
I just bought an advertisement for 50,000 impressions for $50. We'll see how many click throughs I get!
3:51:29 PM Google It!
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