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New site of the day…and here to stay! For everyone interested in podcasting…http://podcasts.yahoo.com.

Interesting to see what the spin-off will be, now that also Yahoo is in!

For everyone who didn’t know yet (where have you been? :))…Dave Winer has sold weblogs.com! Well done buddy, some $$ for the efforts  throughout the last years…BOINNGGGGG! :)

Adam is making use of WIKI shownotes for his ‘Delta Sierra Charlie’-podcast…awesome!!

(thanks to Michael Ridley for the WIKI setup!)

…we didn't know what podcasting would become…there was this stomach feeling, but a 100 million listeners march?? NO WAY!! Well, think again…a lot can happen in 'just' one year.

It still is kind of crazy when I think back of it;

I bet there were only somewhere in the 100's podcast listeners, worldwide! I myself was listening from DSC #1, but only owned my iPod for a few days, enabling me to listen to a DSC during my commute on that particular day, October 7th 2004…traffic jam…I see an Audi A8…think by myself, wouldn't it be funny if Adam Curry was driving that car (I knew he owned an A8)…thought it wouldn't be possible as the license plate was dutch (and he was living in Belgium at the time)…I pass the car…look inside the car…and…it's just like a studio…the one and only 'studio A8' and Adam is mastering the recordings!!!
As they say; the rest is history…recorded on 'tape' to remind us this was one of the breaking points in podcasting history (a true 'god'cast as Dave Winer once called it!)…so, check it out!!!

Adam, great that you played the clip today on DSC #256, it's a nice thing to share with all the people who came on board since last year…not more than 'just' a few, eh? :)

I’m sure the battle will be won, eventually…by me, ME, ME!!!! Never have had any doubt actually:

From the referrer stats I can see than the ‘bombing’ of spam related

traffic has almost deminished since 10:30h this morning…it was a

tough one, but am glad I at least feel on top of things!!

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero: “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

Following yesterdays post, the final results for the 4th of October:

AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Almost 17% of my monthly granted traffic consumed in just ONE day!!!

So, that’s it!

I’m through with this…set up the IP-block with over 500 IP addresses blocked as of 12:00h pm today!

Let’s see what happens, eh?

Gore Vidal: “Most lives are spent putting on and taking off masks.”

Wellwell, I *know* I’m a popular guy, just wasn’t aware I’m *this* popular:

Last Update: 04 Oct 2005 - 06:17

…taken from my website statistics for the first days in October…

Unfortunately I must admit that most of the traffic is spam related…info also taken from the stats as well as the Pivot-Blacklist extension I’m running on this blog. Perhaps I should consider a complete IP-block on these spammers…

My biggest problem is not that this phenomenom is present (I actually

don’t see anything of it, except in the stats)…a much bigger issue

will be that it can cause a website shutdown if too much traffic is

generated!!!

I’ve got a 1Gb deal on a per month basis (cheapy, cheapy, I

know…don’t blame me for being dutch :))…hmm, go figure…if this

malicious traffis continues in this pace, this site will be down per

October 19th, 00:11h (am).

I’LL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN! :)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: “It is a mystery to me how a person can feel honored by the humiliation of his fellow human beings.”

…for the ones who know, do you?