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June 28, 2007 at 12:04 pm · Filed under allsux, dotster, privacy, scandal, subdomains
Well, on the tale of learning about GoDaddy linking to porn (previous post) I found an equally appalling testimonial from someone who points out that Dotster’s user policy allows them to take your subomains and use them for advertising. Apparently, this is buried in their terms of service but allows them (if you make a mistake in setting up your subdomains) to take unused subdomains and routing them to third-party sites or posting advertisements on them.
June 23, 2007 at 11:45 pm · Filed under allsux, godaddy, porn, scandal
Just imagine: you reserve a website for your family-friendly business and have it parked by a trusted name in domain registration, only to find your site full of links to explicitly adult content. Well, I just discovered that GoDaddy is taking domains, parked for unsuspecting consumers, and putting porn links on their sites! In the past, GoDaddy has been criticized for everything from shady business practicies to having somewhat scandalous advertising. This, however, takes things to an entirely new level.
June 22, 2007 at 7:31 pm · Filed under allsux, sucks, sux
There are many websites that suck, but fortunately there are always other websites kind enough to compile these into neat and ordered lists of the worst websites in the world – thus giving great PR to the websites that deserve it least! There are also websites that are terrible on purpose as a way to demonstrate just how bad a website really can be. You can even read up on how to intentionally create your own terrible website. Of course, you are already on the worst website of all time.
June 17, 2007 at 4:30 pm · Filed under allsux, banned, censored, digg, google, liveleak, technorati, web 20, WTF
In this latest installment of the AllSux retrospective, I’m taking a look back at the site’s most controversial and popular posts! If you’ve been reading for a while you may or may not have seen these, but they are the ones that put the site on the map and brought in the readers it has today.
(5) This post about Ask, Google and Google-Sux got some attention mostly because I bashed a site, and its administrator came back at me guns blazing. However, their counterarguments got shut down pretty fast. In reality, I think it was the comments that drew more attention than the post.
(4) This post about the huge scandal about LiveLeak not being indexed by Google drew a lot of readership, though much of it was from a Spanish site I never was able to decipher!
(3) Of course, one of the biggest AllSux targets has been Digg.com – and this story that followed the huge Digg scandal was the most popular of them all. While other blogs (and major news sites like Wired) were confused, I stayed up all night and summarized what was going on.
(2) The Technorati experiment had a huge readership. I think that a lot of people are interested in the deeper consequences of using social networks, and this post struck a cord with folks.
(1) Of course the most visited page on AllSux is Allsux! That bodes well for this and my other (newer) blog, because it means that there are a lot of readers who want to see the lates and greatest, and don’t just show up to read a single post and leave. Thanks to you all – keep visiting, reading, and please leave comments! Also visit this new blog I’m helping develop: WebUrbanist.com.
An honorable mention goes to all of the articles on AllSux about Helium. Though none of these pages have individually made the top five, they have cumulatively done amazingly well. Why? Because other frustrated Helium writers keep finding them and sending me words of support as well as their own stories bout Helium.
June 13, 2007 at 1:15 am · Filed under allsux, digg, google
Well, the Web Urbanist has some new stuff this week – and a lot of comments and traffic to boot. Why? Some of it has come from this neat archive and link list related to creative and interesting guerilla marketing campaigns. However, most of it has come from this piece (also with links and images) related to the Google Street View controversy and privacy issues. However, it is definitely worth checking out this post as well – a follow-up on the first which has amazing, clever, strange and surreal street art.
June 11, 2007 at 8:55 pm · Filed under allsux, mybloglog, WTF
Scanning through MyBlogLog members you can find some really strange stuff. Take the RedGirl blog, for example, where you can download a I <3 You blog clock, even if you can’t understand a single word on the page. I’ll admit that some of the weird images on this blog are humorous and bizarre, but some of the captions make no sense.
June 8, 2007 at 1:00 am · Filed under allsux, blogging, mybloglog, stumbleupon
This blog has been running for some time and it’s about time I took stock of things and gave out some thanks and summed some stuff up! So, in the next few posts I’ll be doing some ‘best of’ summaries, but I thought I should start by thanking those around me who have helped this blog get off the ground. In particular, I’m rethinking things having just presented my thesis and having just started WebUrbanist.
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June 4, 2007 at 1:53 am · Filed under allsux
That’s right, I’m presenting and defending my master’s thesis in 36 hours. What does this have to do with Allsux.com? Absolutely nothing, except that it might explain why I’m not posting for the next day or so! Back with a bang soon, as well as a brand NEW blog.
June 1, 2007 at 7:57 pm · Filed under allsux
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