Comments on: Pirates! http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/ Logistics for global health and aid Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Keizer http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Michael Keizer Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:16:07 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=506#comment-631 Just heaved a sigh of relief: the traffic to that post is mainly due to comment spammers (about 60-70 pieces of comment spam filtered out each day): apparently the combination of the keywords "pirates" and "germs" makes it irresistible for spammers. Just heaved a sigh of relief: the traffic to that post is mainly due to comment spammers (about 60-70 pieces of comment spam filtered out each day): apparently the combination of the keywords “pirates” and “germs” makes it irresistible for spammers.

]]> By: A Humourless Lot» Pirates on the win http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-615 A Humourless Lot» Pirates on the win Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:17:25 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=506#comment-615 [...] blog post signaled a big upswing in interest for pirates. For more information see my post on sense and nonsense of the current attention for piracy. var addthis_pub = 'michaelkeizer'; var addthis_brand = 'A Humourless Lot';var addthis_language = [...] [...] blog post signaled a big upswing in interest for pirates. For more information see my post on sense and nonsense of the current attention for piracy. var addthis_pub = ‘michaelkeizer’; var addthis_brand = ‘A Humourless Lot’;var addthis_language = [...]

]]> By: Michael Keizer http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-614 Michael Keizer Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:22:22 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=506#comment-614 And to make things worse... The blog post that still attracts most visitors on my site, is the one about <a href="http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/the-pirate-threat-germs/" rel="nofollow">germs as the (then) latest pirate threat</a>. And to make things worse… The blog post that still attracts most visitors on my site, is the one about germs as the (then) latest pirate threat.

]]> By: Michael Keizer http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-545 Michael Keizer Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:29:22 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=506#comment-545 I know that you know, Paul, and you know that I know that you know. But there are other readers of this blog too. Anyway, now that I have you as a more-or-less captive audience, I would appreciate your expert<sup>[1]</sup> feedback on that last question: what <em>does</em> this say about the media, or about us? [1] Other readers: Paul writes the excellent humanitarian.info blog about information management in humanitarian aid. Compulsory reading for anybody even remotely interested! He also <a href="http://www.currion.net/2009/04/14/tough-on-pirates-tough-on-the-causes-of-pirates/" rel="nofollow">writes about pirates</a>. I know that you know, Paul, and you know that I know that you know. But there are other readers of this blog too.

Anyway, now that I have you as a more-or-less captive audience, I would appreciate your expert[1] feedback on that last question: what does this say about the media, or about us?

[1] Other readers: Paul writes the excellent humanitarian.info blog about information management in humanitarian aid. Compulsory reading for anybody even remotely interested! He also writes about pirates.

]]> By: Paul C http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/2009/pirates/comment-page-1/#comment-495 Paul C Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:33:53 +0000 http://michaelkeizer.com/humourless/?p=506#comment-495 Nothing that we didn't already know, mate... Nothing that we didn’t already know, mate…

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