USPSjedimaster.com is live (sort of) March 16, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in news, R2D2, scifi, showmescifi, Star Wars, starwars, USPS.12 comments
Finally! uspsjedimaster.com is live so now there is no doubt that jedi mail is coming...
The US Post Office just has a little teaser up now with a few clips from Star Wars..and a big hint –
MARCH 28TH is the day that US Postal Service will formally announce…
something…
I have no doubt whatsoever that it’s the R2D2 post boxes and likely some stamps and other 30th anniversary stuff.
Technorati doesn’t like free wordpress.com users February 18, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in blog, blog search, google, news, scifi, technorati.3 comments
There was a time when I though that Technorati was the ultimate blog search tool.
That is until i moved to wordpress.com and realized that Technorati is inferior to Google’s blog search in terms of getting new posts indexed. In fact Technorati in my opinion is so far behind Google in getting wordpress.com indexed that i think that wordpress.com users should avoid Technorati all together.
Allow me to fully explain.
Technorati has a description on it site of how to do automated ping for wordpress. The problem is that it doesn’t work with WordPress.com.
What really alarmed me and showed me how far behind Technorati is – comes from a recent experience where a post of mine was the top post on WordPress.com for the day. Technorati showed inbound links citing my post – but suprisingly the post itself was not listed in content feed for showmescifi.wordpress.com until nearly 12 days later.
I contacted Technorati several times over this period and all i ever got was a form email:
[technorati.com #65651] AutoReply: [Support] Indexing – Last Updated date for my blog has not changed though I ping Inbox
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Feb 7 Dear Technorati User,
Thank you so much for taking the time to drop us a line. If you are reporting a problem you may be having you will be contacted by a support technician once we have had a chance to review your message.
If you don’t hear back from anyone within a week, please accept our apologies for the delay as we may be experiencing a backlog in Support. Please feel free to send us a reminder of your ticket. Please be sure to include the subject and ticket number, “[Support] Indexing – Last Updated date for my blog has not changed though I ping #65651], ” in your note so we may properly track your issue and its progress. In the meantime, you can also check our Support FAQ located at “http://technorati.com/help/faq.html” which may answer some of your questions.
If you have written us to share feedback, ideas, or suggestions (if the Subject line contains [Feedback] vs [Support]), you will not normally receive a response but we do appreciate and value any and all comments, alerts and suggestions.
We appreciate your patience and thank you for using Technorati! We hope we may be of service.
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Now let’s take a look at Google’s blog search in comparison. Google is up to date for ShowMeSciFi.wordpress.com within 3 hours of a post. Technorati doesn’t even come close at anywhere from 2 days to almost 2 weeks even if I do a manual ping.
So the question is – what’s up with Technorati? Is it just for bloggers who host on their own? I used to wonder why Technorati was till independant and hadn’t been bought by Yahoo! Google or Microsoft. I think I now have part of my answer.
Fact is stranger than fiction – Astronaut in bizarre kidnap plot in Florida court February 6, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in NASA, news.4 comments
Over 600 sites are reporting today about a truly bizarre love triangle involving three NASA astronauts.
The Associated Press reports that – Lisa Marie Nowak, 43 drove 900 miles, donned a disguise and was armed with a BB gun and pepper spray when she confronted a woman she believed was a competitor for the affections of Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a fellow astronaut. Nowak and Oefelein, 41, were both first-time fliers during separate shuttle missions last year. They trained together but never flew together.
According to CNN, Nowak wore a diaper during the 14-hour drive so that she wouldn’t have to stop for bathroom breaks. Astronauts wear what NASA calls maximum-absorbency garments to collect their waste during space travel.
I know, not exactly Science Fiction (which is what ShowMeSciFi is all about), but sometimes Fact is far Stranger than fiction
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