Karmona`s Pragmatic Blog

News Flash from the Karmona`s Oligarchy

25/11/2007 - I have officially joined the domain madness* with yobsi.com

28/11/2007 - The backlink left-pane widgets** bordel and the right-pane google adsense hoax were removed (a.k.a. Back to sanity…)

1/12/2007 - I was added as oligarch in Wikipedia*** and got a really cool oligarch watch as FaceBook gift

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* I heard a rumor that Pasha really hit-the-jackpot with outrages 1 digit (~3 cents) adsense-revenue and the site was up only for one week!!!

** blogarama, spotplex, blogcave, blogskinny, blogflux, blogcatalog, feeds4all, Bloghub, zimbio, mybloglog, icerocket, bloggerschoiceawards, technorati, bumpzee, amazingcounters etc.

*** If the Wikipedia bots will not like it (or better yet, since I have already made the necessary cleaning), you will only be able to see it in this rare snapshot

Wikipedia is one of the best online tools (and my personal favorite) with over 1.8 million articles about everything you always wanted to know but was afraid to ask…

but Wikipedia is also the biggest online bureaucracy with very impressive set of regulations, policies and guidelines which will make Max Weber turn in his grave twice; This bureaucracy is governed by unfriendly-easy-trigger-not-too-smart-enforcement intendant bots and WikiLawyerians which make the average Pragmatic Wikipedia editor turn around and leave Wikipedia to the bots (dogs)

P.S. (I)

I think I am on to a new web conspiracy: “Google is a Wikipedia subsidiary” - You surely experience the trend yourself e.g.
* Try to Google: ‘World Wide Web‘, ‘England‘, ‘Mars‘ and even ‘God‘
* Wikipedia climbed to the 8th traffic rank (Based on Alexa lateset traffic details)

P.S. (II)

I really liked this Wikipedia rule since it reminded me of my early childhood ;-)

“The three-revert rule (often referred to as 3RR) is a policy that applies to all Wikipedians, and is intended to prevent edit warring - An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, on a single page within a 24-hour period. A revert means undoing the actions of another editor, whether involving the same or different material each time. Any editor who breaches the rule may be blocked from editing for up to 24 hours in the first instance, and longer for repeated or aggravated violations.”

P.S. (III) 

I am thinking (day dreaming) about writing my own little vicious Wikipedia bot someday - I shall call him… Mini-Me!

10 Simple Facts I have learned during the last weekend

(P.S. I had ‘11 Simple Facts’ but I thought rounding will be better)

1. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do (this is nice)
2. My Google trends experiment failed miserably (‘pritney spears scrum’ doesn’t count ;-)
3. The electric chair was invented by a dentist (I knew it)
4. 7 out of 10 IT projects “fail” in some respect (3 out of 10 is enough?)
5. I run 2 km in 10 minutes (*2 world record)
6. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words (Ironic?)
7. All of the clocks in the movie “Pulp Fiction” are stuck on 4:20 (…)
8. In a study of 200,000 ostriches, over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand…
9. I tried to contribute to wikipedia during the weekend and my contributions were removed automatically by the Wikipedia bot (/admins) due to spam, self promotion and notability violations??? (a.k.a. ‘criteria for speedy deletion’)
10. In Chinese the words for crisis and opportunity are the same (Wikipedia, “I’ll be baaaack!”)