The pacifist
This abuse of power is another example why it's important to observe arrests the way Trish Van Pilsum did in Minneapolis. Good job Trish.
Tribe down
Tribe.net has been down for a couple weeks. Burners are back from the playa and are dying to reconnect, I couldn't think of a worse time to bring it down. I received a nasty 500 error this morning. I don't know what's going on but whatever it is its bad bad bad.
Extended downtime topic posted Tue, September 9, 2008 - 4:56 PM by Darren
So, if you hadn't noticed, our downtime from Thursday was extremely extended until today, Tuesday. A vital piece of hardware malfunctioned and was irreparably damaged when we powered it back on. This equipment was scheduled for replacement on September 23rd -- we have the site held together with spit and bubblegum until we get the new storage solution installed. We apologize for the extended downtime, this weekend was about as bad as it could get. We will be sending out an email to all users tomorrow.
Minimum impressions
Here are some figures that have been floating around in my mind that I thought I would share.
A website would need to generate 500 thousand impressions per month to receive an income of $5000 monthly. If you take 30% off (for taxes that amounts to about $3500. This would provide a modest monthly income for a one person show. The site would be about the popularity of cooltools or treonauts.
SITE - IMPRESSIONS laughingsquid[fm] - 390,000 cooltools[fm] - 480,000 treonauts[fm] - 540,000 askaninja[fm] - 780,000 43folders[fm] - 900,000 boingboing[fm] - 7,380,000
It's difficult to compare impressions since many websites don't offer that sort of information but you can use www.compete.com to get an idea of how the site ranks compared to others. Choose a couple of the sites you know the impressions for (laughingsquid, treonauts, askaninja as a baseline) as a baseline and compare the graphs to get a rough estimate. For example, tribe.net seems to far exceed the traffic of laughingsquid whereas tinynibbles.com seems to come pretty close to treeonauts.com. I've compiled an excel spreadsheet of sample impressions if you're interested in getting a better idea of what the numbers mean.
Here's how the numbers work out. If you were a website that charged $5 CPM (a modest figure, Gawker media charges between $6 and $10), you could sell 200 thousand impressions to 5 customers and earn $5000 monthly. This means your site would need to generate 1 million (one thousand thousand) impressions per month. You can double up the ads on a page and reduce this number to 500 thousand.
($5 per thousand impressions) * (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = $5000 monthly (200 thousand impressions) * (5 customers) = 1000 thousand impressions
LHC to start in two days
CERN has today announced
that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. They're on Central European Time (+9 hours from Pacific Standard Time). There's a webcast on the cern site for more information.
Right-brained
Which way is this girl spinning? 7ustm3's post indicates that if you see her spinning clockwise, then you're right brained.
| LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS | RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS |
| uses logic | uses feelings |
| detail oriented | big picture oriented |
| facts rule | imagination rules |
| words and language | symbols and images |
| present and past | present and future |
| math and science | philosophy & religion |
| can comprehend | can "get it" (i.e. meaning) |
| knowing | believes |
| acknowledges | appreciates |
| order/pattern perception | spatial perception |
| knows object name | knows object function |
| reality based | fantasy based |
| forms strategies | presents possibilities |
| practical | impetuous |
| safe | risk taking |