I was bored (as always) and decided to search "I am Oxie Moron" through Google and I saw the usual links with my name, but one of them stopped me and sparked curiosity.
ecosystem stats for I am Oxie Moron WTF. That is all I could think of. So, I asked the smartest person I knew after I couldn't figure out what it was.
I am Oxie Moron: Look, I'm a dumbass, but what do you think
THIS is?
Ph33rTheGord: Um...
Ph33rTheGord: depends... where's it from?
Ph33rTheGord: And uh... what IS it/
Ph33rTheGord: :P
I am Oxie Moron: I have NO idea. Erm... God. I just found it.
Ph33rTheGord: Where/
I am Oxie Moron: Google. I just wrote in "I am Oxie Moron" like I usually do and this came up.
I am Oxie Moron: Eh, it's probably nothing.
Ph33rTheGord: um... something about meta... or whatever...
I am Oxie Moron: lol Nevermind. I won't understand it. I think it is best if I leave this alone. :P
Ph33rTheGord: Looks to me like they spidered your blog or something, and stuck it in a database
Ph33rTheGord: Meh
Ph33rTheGord: You could e-mail the dude and tell him to fuck off...
I am Oxie Moron: What do you mean by that?
Ph33rTheGord: http://www.myelin.co.nz/ecosystem/
Ph33rTheGord: E-mail link's at the bottom, the envelope
Ph33rTheGord: uh...
I am Oxie Moron: yeah, I am there right now.
Ph33rTheGord: If you click the link, there's this huge journal DB thing
Ph33rTheGord: Yeah
I am Oxie Moron: But.. why me?
Ph33rTheGord: Well, they mentioned meta...
Ph33rTheGord: So maybe they have like a scanner or something that scans your meta keywords
I am Oxie Moron: Grrr.
Ph33rTheGord: And enters your blog into a database...
Ph33rTheGord: Like I said, e-mail the guy, tell him to fuck off
I am Oxie Moron: Mmhmm. I plan to, I hope.
Ph33rTheGord: It's pretty much an invasion of privacy
I am Oxie Moron: Seriously. I've had this before.
Ph33rTheGord: ARGH
Ph33rTheGord: fags
Ph33rTheGord wants to directly connect.
Ph33rTheGord is now directly connected.
Ph33rTheGord: Right, we have some ecosystem results here. 639 blogs, although a lot of the UserLand-hosted ones (editthispage.com etc) won't have been counted because my crawler was blocked after going too fast in the first run. The next thing I'll do is get it to group pages by IP address and only fetch, say, one page every minute from a single IP, which should let me get the UserLand ones OK. I wonder what the 'nasty crawler' threshold is on the server.
(Tech note: I cache pages, so I'll only ever fetch any given page once. I shouldn't stress any single site at all, but servers which host thousands of blogs will notice quite a few hits. That will change.)
Ph33rTheGord: Crawler ~_~;
Ph33rTheGord: They're fucking running scripts and collecting people's shit into databases
Ph33rTheGord: just like a spam emailer
Ph33rTheGord: Bah... idiots.
I am Oxie Moron: lol WHY for?
Ph33rTheGord: Um... because?
Ph33rTheGord: Damned if I know
I am Oxie Moron: Are they THAT fucking bored?
Ph33rTheGord: But yeah... it's invasion of privacy, this guy needs to shove it up his ass
I am Oxie Moron: No shit.
Ph33rTheGord: Bah
Ph33rTheGord: I'm pissed, and it's not even ME :P
I am Oxie Moron: lol
I am Oxie Moron: That other site that is under me (XeRo iLLuSiOnZ) I know that person. SOrta.
I am Oxie Moron: He has me linked in his blog.
Ph33rTheGord: Mmm
Ph33rTheGord: They probably found you through him, then
I am Oxie Moron: They have this shit on The Leaky Cauldron too.
Ph33rTheGord: Mmm
Ph33rTheGord: It's basically a link farm
I am Oxie Moron: Yeah. Hahahahaha. Goddammit.
I am Oxie Moron: Fuck it.
Ph33rTheGord: they link to you, you go in the database, a million OTHER people link to you...
Ph33rTheGord: major invasion of privacy
I am Oxie Moron: Mmhmm.
I am Oxie Moron: What can you expect on the net.
I am Oxie Moron: No such thing, really.
Ph33rTheGord: Meh
Ph33rTheGord: There is, for all intents and purposes
Ph33rTheGord: but only if you wanna download 50 programs, bounce your IP off 30 proxies, find a shell account...
I am Oxie Moron: If I were dumb enough to think that I had PRIVACY over the net, I would have written even more private and intimate posts. Which I haven't. Not as much anyway. Just fuck it. They suck anway.
Ph33rTheGord: Heh
Ph33rTheGord: Bah...
Now I feel like a fuckin' goat. I also realized that I did infact know what "meta" was, only I was too stupid to remember. HTML, Cristal! H-T-M-L. Idiot. Thanks anyway, George!