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December 27th, 2007 — Facebook, comment policy, LinkedIn, social media, Blogger.com, Pownce, smiley, trolls, censorware, sites we like, blog censorship, search engine, social news, writing, video, Technorati, Web 2.0, blogging, spam, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Digg, social bookmarking, Slashdot, Wordpress
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September 14th, 2007 — cyberwars, 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech, enemy propaganda, counterjihad, tech tips, Google, blogging, Wordpress
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1389 Blog has been getting some strange visitors lately…
This chart shows the search phrases that people entered yesterday to get to 1389 Blog.
Here’s what happened: Someone entered the phrase “how to make remote pipe bombs” into Google or another search utility. 1389 Blog was included in the list of sites that came up, simply because we ran a news story about the Goose Creek “pipe bomb boys”. The person clicked on the link to get to 1389 Blog.
For the record, there are NO instructions on this blog for making remote pipe bombs or any other WMDs. I wonder whether this particular visitor became frustrated and decided to get back at us by falsely reporting 1389 Blog as a “hate site.”
In case you’re wondering, there is no hate speech on this blog. No trash talk. No incitement to violence. No mention of anything pertaining to racial issues. No ad hominem attacks. No bloody pictures. Comments are moderated, and we don’t even allow swear words. So if you’re looking for an excuse to ban this blog, you will find it only in your imagination.
So how can you find out who is visiting YOUR blog?
By running blog statistics and checking them regularly.
Where do I get blog statistics?
You’ll need to download a plugin, sign up for a web-based utility, or have your hosting provider set up a statistics utility if you want to gather statistics. Just for starters, try these. Follow the instructions at the websites:
- If you have a WordPress blog, whether it’s at WordPress.com or independently hosted, you can use the WordPress.com blog stats plugin.
- Anyone with a blog can sign up for Google Analytics.
- The free version of StatCounter lets you pinpoint the actual IP address for the most recent 500 page views. If this isn’t enough, you can upgrade to a larger log file size for a monthly fee.
How blog statistics can help you to improve your blog
There are other good reasons to run blog statistics.
For one thing, the only way you can build your audience is by trying different things on your blog, and then checking your statistics to see how readers react. You can see how many people are visiting, where they are coming from, which search phrases they used to get to your blog, which blog articles they are viewing, how long they are staying, what they are clicking, and so forth. If you don’t collect statistics, you’re just groping in the dark.
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Our enemies use many avenues - including our own blogs -
to spread disinformation and propaganda. They also use many techniques to try to shut our blogs down entirely.
Jihadist disinformation in blog comments and email
Are e-jihadists attacking your blog?
August 14th, 2007 — Twitter, 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech, tech tips, blogging, browser, Wordpress
If you have a blog, it’s bound to happen to you sooner or later…
The symptoms: Maybe your blog won’t come up in your own browser. Or maybe it looks fine in your browser, but not in someone else’s. You get a discreet (or not-so-discreet) message that there’s a problem. Somebody’s complaining about a 404, an hourglass, a browser crash, a blank window that says “Done,” a partial display, or a scrambled mess that they can scarcely describe.
You gotta fix it promptly! It could be a problem with your layout or content. It could be a problem with the hosting provider. Or it could be a hacker or spammer interfering with delivery of your blog. Whatever the problem, it’s up to you to do something about it. If you have a blog and you want to maintain your credibility, your readers expect your blog to come up promptly when they want to see it. They expect it to display attractively in all of the commonly-used Internet browsers. If your blog loads slowly and displays poorly, it reflects badly on your ability to maintain your blog. If your blog is down too frequently or for too long a time, your readership will disappear because visitors will think you’ve stopped blogging entirely!
Learn from other bloggers’ war stories!
Problems fall into certain general categories. Even though every blog troubleshooting scenario may look different at first glance, you can learn to spot the symptoms of common problems that are easy to fix. As a general rule, the more troubleshooting “war stories” from other bloggers you read about or listen to, the more problems you will be able to solve, and the more pitfalls you will be able to avoid on your own.
Here’s what I did:
In this case, 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech was displaying, but the format was scrambled. I found out about this problem when I got a direct message from a fellow Twitterer, ThomAllen, telling me that my blog wasn’t loading properly. I immediately checked it out in IE7 and the mobile web interface, but everything showed up just fine. My Feedburner output looked good also.
Don’t be afraid to ask for help! I asked other people on Twitter, and on an open thread in another blog, to view this blog in their own browsers, and to let me know which browsers they had used and what errors they saw (if any). I got a considerable number of responses. Thanks, everyone!
Pinpoint the problem. After reviewing the responses, I could see that the blog worked fine in IE6, IE7, mobile Mozilla 4, and Safari. But in Firefox, the main content in the center column was pushed to the bottom of the blog, below the final element in the left sidebar. Some people also warned that it took a long time to load.
Reproduce the problem on your own computer, if you can. Other Twitterers urged me to go ahead and install Mozilla Firefox 2 on my machine and use it to view the blog. I did exactly that, and was able to duplicate the problem that I had been told about.
Look at docs, man pages, wikis, forums, and whatever else is available. Because this is a WordPress blog, I looked up the problem in the WordPress codex, the WP Designer forum, and other WordPress forums and docs. Turns out that some browsers are pickier than others about how they handle issues with padding and elements that don’t quite fit in the allotted space.
What has changed recently? I remembered that I had made some adjustments to the sidebar size and padding in my WordPress layout to accommodate some petition widget code that was just a bit too wide to fit into the left sidebar. Hmmm, I thought, this isn’t working the way I thought it would!
Back out recent changes to get to a version that works, and rebuild from there. I started by reloading the original theme files for Cutline 3-Column Split. I created a WordPress page for Petitions and moved the petition boxes into it. To cut back on the load time and reduce visual complexity, I also decided to move the IT and Computing Links and the Mobile Web Links into separate WordPress pages also. Links to all of the blog’s pages are prominently displayed under the Pages header in the sidebar (see Resources).
So what are the take-home lessons here?
- If you notice that someone else’s blog isn’t displaying correctly, don’t automatically assume that the blog owner is already aware of the problem. Maybe not! You can help by sending an email or other message indicating what browser you are using, and describing exactly what happened (or failed to happen).
- On a regular basis, look at your own blog in several different browsers, including the mobile web interface if you have one. Be sure to view the blog before you have signed on as a blog admin. In addition, check your feed output and any other features that involve user interaction, such as polls and response forms.
- It is not worthwhile to hack or tweak your blog template just to squeeze an odd-sized widget or graphic into a sidebar or other page element. You’ll end up with a lopsided theme that might not load properly. It’s better to find an entirely different place to display that item. And if you do any WP theme-hacking, be sure to test your new or modified theme in as many browsers as you can before releasing it for use in anyone’s blog!
- Track your stats and check them often. It’s a good idea to use several tracking tools. For example, Google Analytics gives you a breakdown of visitors by browser type as well as by referrer (i.e., the site that the visitor came from). If visitor counts, and time spent on your blog, decline for a particular type of browser, that may mean that your blog performs poorly for that browser. If you stop getting traffic from a certain referrer, perhaps you are being blocked in some way. Other utilities, such as Google Webmaster Tools, can tell you whether search engine spiders are able to index your site’s pages so that the public can find you.
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July 30th, 2007 — Gleamd, Pownce, Ft. Hard Knox, 1389 Message Blog, 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech, e-jihadis, counterjihad, 1389, StumbleUpon, blogging, Slashdot, Blogger.com, Grasshoppers, Wordpress
1389 Blog on Blogspot has been migrated to 1389 Blog on Wordpress.
The WordPress blogging system will allow more features to be added to the blog, but the purpose will be the same. It’ll be an antijihadist/techie blog, as it is now, with emphasis on exposing jihadism and particularly cyberjihadism, and of providing access to the technical news, tools, and techniques that help antijihadist activists to be more effective on the Web.
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July 1st, 2007 — mobile web, cellular, tech tips, blogging, Wordpress
Here’s a roundup of tools and techniques for bloggers who use WordPress.
Rolling updates follow the main body of this article.
New items are being added to the list as the information becomes available. Your comments and suggestions are invited!
- Economy Size Geek offers Postie, an add-on for independently-hosted WordPress blogs. It lets you e-mail blog posts, including photos and video clips.
- Andy Moore offers a downloadable plug-in to create a mobile web interface for your WordPress blog. WordPress Mobile Plug-In works well with PDAs and ordinary cellphones, and even allows editing through the mobile web interface. (Stein hoist and lots of good tweets to fellow Twitterer WiredPig for telling me about this and the above plug-in.)
- Alex King offers a collection of WordPress tools.
- eMoms at Home explains how to future-post blog entries in WordPress.
- William Teach at The Pirate’s Cove offers several blog posts that discuss WordPress tools:
- Imthiaz Blog offers WP-PDA, another downloadable plug-in that lets PDAs and cellphones access your WordPress blog through your existing blog URL. This is the interface used at The Pirate’s Cove.
- Bill Hartzer describes One Simple Way to Protect Your WordPress Plugins.
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