…as you can see from all cases of bloggers arrested, or threatened from the police.
My (obvious) advice to them is: quit blogging, move to a free country (like USA), and resume blogging from there.
Good luck, Sandmonkey.
This is the fourth year that the Weblog Awards take place.
Let me say they are a farce.
The rules say it is not allowed to vote more than once in 24 hours from the same computer.
Although, it is very easy to cheat and vote multiple times per day:
For those who wants to vote more than once a day, just go to root:\Documents and Settings\userid\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\
#SharedObjects\????????\weblogawards.org\award_poll_1_15.swf\
and delete the file poll_34.sol.
Apparently, this or other techniques have been put into practice during this edition of the Awards. Some claimed they have seen exponential, miraculous growths of votes, at frequencies of hundredths in hours.
Personally, I can say that tonight I casted a vote. Then, I could see the total votes for all competitors in the same category. Then I refreshed the web page from which I voted, and saw that the votes of one of the competitor blogs increased by one. Then, I refreshed the page after one second. The votes for that blog increased. Then, I refreshed. Then, they increased again. And so on. And so forth. Nice, huh ?
Our blogging buddy Can’t Sit Still departed from Italy today bound for her new life in the US. We wish her all the best.
Ci sentiamo.
Buzzurro joined this initiative: to support the birth of a real democracy in Iran.
(Thanks to DoctorZin of RegimeChangeIran blog.)
I wish to say thanks to William Teach for letting us join the American Flag League, the group of bloggers who are proud to show an American flag on their blogs.
Assistendo alla guerra di parole che infiamma la blogosfera italiana da molti giorni, Christian Rocca vs. 563 blogger di TocqueVille, ho voluto raccogliere alcuni esempi del Camillo che piu’ ho apprezzato in questi anni:
Uozzamerica, Cattelan, Glaviano, Jarrett, Solinas, Emergency, Greencard, Luca Sofri, casa a NY, Starbucks, Feltri, Zuccopycat, l’amante di destra, antisemitismo, taxi, vita da blogger, fecondazione, Dershowitz contro l’ONU,
per contro ecco alcuni esempi del Camillo degli ultimi giorni:
“idiozie“, “idiozie“, “idiozie“, “idiozie“, “stupidaggini“, “fascistelli brufolosi a cui si è rotta la Playstation“, “idiozie“, “idioti illiberali“, “fascistelli“, “cretinate“, “falsità“, “idiota puro e semplice“, “Tocqueville, la città dei secondini“, “ridicoli“, “altre idiozie nella città dei secondini“, “Nella città dei secondini c’è un sapientone, o un doppio sapientone, che non riesce a dimostrare che 2 più 2 fa 4 senza prima scaricare la sua piccola enciclopedia dei Quindici sui suoi lettori“, “Il problema è che l’ignorante è il sapientone, o doppio sapientone“, “per i duri di testa“, “i due sapientoni della città dei secondini“, “si ragiona così, nella città dei secondini“, “l’altra bravata dei sapientoni a corto di argomenti“, “sapientoni e curatori dei Quindici“.
Tre blog che in me hanno suscitato un grandissimo interesse, piu’ o meno a partire dal 2003, sono stati Camillo, Rolli e Free Thoughts.
E’ grazie al loro ottimo lavoro ed al loro esempio, che ho voluto cimentarmi nella realizzazione del blog Buzzurro.
Mi ricordo quella volta in cui, a fine giugno di quest’anno, mandai un’email a Camillo segnalandogli questo post (all’epoca nel vecchio blog), guadagnando una citazione nel suo post del giorno successivo, e relativo effetto Slashdot, balzando da 5-10 visitatori giornalieri a una punta massima di 170 visitatori giornalieri, se non ricordo male.
Adesso, non posso piu’ dire di essere contento di leggere quello che scrive Camillo, quando, quello che doveva essere un confronto con le idee altrui, diventa invece un rovesciare insulti addosso a chi non e’ d’accordo con noi, accompagnato da arroganza.
How glad I am !!!! I came home from work and found out that the blog I set up for a hobby has been nominated among finalists of Weblog Awards 2005, as the best European blog non U.K. !
At first I thought: they must have made a mistake !! 
J.Doe and I thank those who nominated us, as we thank the 4 people who voted for us ! Thanks to all of the 4 !
Now Davids Medienkritik is leading the top European list. I admit I didn’t know it before. His blog is pretty. He got 400+ votes so far. How can we catch up now ?
Among the nominees, I noticed a certain Emmanuelle.net, interesting. At first I thought it was related to the well-known erotic movie character. Instead, it’s just an homonym.
I would suggest/advice/ask/beg (beg ?) you to cast a vote for us, for Nickie Goomba, and/or for the following Italian blogs: Free Thoughts, Otimaster, The Right Nation, Robinik. You can cast just a vote every 24 hours up to December 15th.
You can vote by going to this page. In case you want to vote for Nickie Goomba, the web page is here.
Here is a technique is explained for giving your site a Page Rank of 10. Supposedly it works. Being Buzzurro.net brand new, after one week of life it has a zero PR, and a TTLB of “insignificant microbe” or something. Here is a site with a PR of 10 for demo purposes.
If, though, you want to check a demo PR 9 site, PR 8 site, or any PR down to 5, they have it.
Anyway, I think I will NOT give this technique a try…
