Yearly Archives: 2004

Extending the Drug War

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Perhaps the bushies* are also working on an obediance drug:

Alongside efforts to reduce the supply and demand of illegal drugs, the federal government has begun pursuing a new tactic, one that expands the drug war battlefield from the Columbian coca farms and the Middle Eastern poppy fields, to a new terrain directly inside the bodies and brains of drug users.
As Radley Balko says, this report from the the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics is frightening.
*Yea, I know I can’t blame just the bushies as this fiasco has been going on for a long time. The bushies are, though, the ones currently violating people’s rights and wasting resources.

Weblogs

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Wow, Technorati is now tracking over 3,000,000 weblogs:

The growth of the service has been pretty remarkable – here’s some stats: We’re currently seeing anywhere from 8,000-17,000 new weblogs created every single day.
On an average weekday, we’re seeing over 15,000 new weblogs created per day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds.
Of course, not all weblogs that are created are actively updated. Even though abandonment rates are high – our analyses show that about 45% of the weblogs we track have not had a post in over 3 months we are still tracking a significant population of people who are posting each day. The number of conversations are increasing. We’re seeing over 275,000 individual posts every day.
If you are not using Technorati to track who is linking to you it is time to start.

June’s Top Referrers

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On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s 21 top referrers in the month of June. Number 21 produced 10 referrals compared to 8 for number 20 in May.
Overall traffic was down about 9.7% from May and up 403% from June 03 (no I do not expect the year to year growth rate to continue at that rate). I am also seeing an increasing number of visits from folks who have bookmarked Modulator and I thank all of you for visiting!
Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
June churn: 10 blogs dropped and 8 new ones added compared to 5 and 8 in April. There was a 2 way tie for 20th.
Top search word: ROTK
Most popular post: ROTK: Extended Edition
Again, thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, Bloglines, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.