This morning, I posted a support query in the deep and authentic WordPress.com Support Forum concerning previous discussions of the “Quantcast Pixel” that is loaded for each WordPress.com blog. It seems that if you visit the Quantcast site, anyone can get information on your WordPress.com blog just by entering your blog name at the end of the Quantcast URL. Here’s the text of my support inquiry — I have added the screenshots for this article:
I spend a lot of my waking hours — when I am not here staring at a computer screen writing to you – walking the urban streets of New York and New Jersey. I interact with all sorts of personalities and lifestyles. I am seeing a new trend that concerns me as a pseudo-amateur watcher of human behavior: The free exposition of lying in wait repressed rage.
In the USA, I’ve seen people wear sweatpants in public, and hospital scrubs worn as street clothes have been de rigueur for a decade now, but I don’t understand the continued rise of wearing pajamas — and slippers! — in public as your actual clothing.
You’ve read their blogs. You’ve felt their heat. You know their terroristic hatred. I’m talking about — The Revenge Bloggers — and I’m hoping today we can try to deaden their cold, and narrow, icepick impact in the public square by asking them to retire their poison fingers.
We are all quite familiar with Dubya’s memorable moments in office as he flipped us off on camera — but there is a new firestorm afoot under the former president’s thumb — and it all has to do with how he used his new best friend Bill Clinton as a human Handi Wipe.
You can buy the new “Cuffed” magazine for a dollar to ogle the faces of the recently arrested. There are some who believe “Cuffed” is an inappropriate invasion of privacy while others argue the mug shots are part of the public record and any right to privacy was lost upon arrest.
Are we at the end of our tether with public schooling as private schools, religious schools and school vouchers try to replace our traditional education system?
This article represents a quick presentation of what is possible with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. We were pleased to provide some GIS content for Glencoe/McGraw-Hill publishing for three textbooks in 2008: World Geography and Cultures, Glencoe World History and The American Vision — all with a combined expected worldwide sales of 750,000 copies.
(UPDATE: UrbanSemiotic.com is now hosted on Movable Type 4.1. We are keeping this article in publication to keep the record preserved.)
I love WordPress.com and I moved my standalone blog from being self-hosted to the .COM version because I didn’t want to deal with any of the backend technical stuff.
That doesn’t mean problems and bugs aren’t an issue, though, and there is a current bug that I call a WordPress.com SuperBug — a regular “bug” is bothersome, a “SuperBug” modifies published content — and here’s why.
There is a known problem on WordPress.com where Published posts can mysteriously become Private posts.
You are the head of Homeland Security.
The following urgent intelligence report has been sent to your desk.
The president has deferred to your judgment:
Your decision will prove the resolution of this threat to national security.
As a good Son of Nebraska, I was horrified to learn of the new law passed last Thursday by the Nebraska Unicameral to racially divide — or let’s call it “State Sponsored Vivisection by Race” — the Omaha Public Schools into three distinct Racial districts: White, Black and Hispanic. The 45,000 student Omaha school system is 46% White, 31% Black, 20% Hispanic and 3% Asian or American Indian.
