http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2005/07/30/proust-questionnaire/ Present Thoughts of Absent Friends Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:17:40 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.salondesgeeks.com/2005/07/30/proust-questionnaire/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Kiri Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:27:10 +0000 http://salondesgeeks.com/2005/07/30/proust-questionnaire/#comment-29 This comment from "News from Around the World" is totally bizarre. I went and looked at that blog, and as far as I can tell, it looks like they have a program that crawls the web, identifies other weblogs, pulls out random posts to link to, and then adds a snippet of introductory, possibly irrelevant, text (as here, "Here's something you don't see every day..."). Other intro texts include things like, "Here's a tip," and "As if..." and "Is the quote machine broken?" and so on. I clicked around but there doesn't seem to be any real explanation. If I had to guess, it's all automated -- note that your post got filed under "Politics" on that blog: probably it just goes off of keywords like "Washington" and "Politics", thereby missing the point of the post. :) This comment from “News from Around the World” is totally bizarre. I went and looked at that blog, and as far as I can tell, it looks like they have a program that crawls the web, identifies other weblogs, pulls out random posts to link to, and then adds a snippet of introductory, possibly irrelevant, text (as here, “Here’s something you don’t see every day…”). Other intro texts include things like, “Here’s a tip,” and “As if…” and “Is the quote machine broken?” and so on. I clicked around but there doesn’t seem to be any real explanation. If I had to guess, it’s all automated — note that your post got filed under “Politics” on that blog: probably it just goes off of keywords like “Washington” and “Politics”, thereby missing the point of the post. :)

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