Something from the referral bag: A roundup of sex related queries.

the Staxxx • porn n chicken • userland sex porn • "the art of anal sex • yale and porn • katrina from big brother porn • answer the door naked • How much are porn stars paid salary

Daniel Donilov may consider his weblog is "rated for family viewing," but this one isn't shy about embracing an R rating. Heck! If necessary, I'll even go for a NC-17.

Something from the referral bag: What can you tell me about spider attack movies?

Oh boy, that brings so many memories of the days when this weblog crawled out from the ooze! Anyway, before I get all misty, you should check Driver 8's very first post, which not only deals with the afforementioned aracnid films, but also mentions The Big Lebowsky and sets high hopes for this log's content.

Hmm... First time I hear about that, but let's take a crack at it. Let's start with a web search...

OK, found a Ms. Brenda Clevenger, writing about creating news releases that'll get picked, who drops this:

In her book On Deadline, Wilma Mathews, ABC, recommends pre-screening your pitches for their newsworthiness by asking these six questions:

1. Is the story local?
2. Is the information unique or unusual?
3. Is the material timely?
4. Is it timeless (topics like AIDS or the environment)?
5. Does the information concern people?
6. Does the material create human interest, pathos, or humor?

More interesting yet: two different sources mention New York University professor Mitchell Stephens as the source of the critieria for newsworthiness.

...Citing New York University professor Mitchell Stephens, [Syracuse University professor Robert] Lissit listed six "criteria for newsworthiness" and said TV crime reporting meets only two of them -- timeliness and proximity -- while failing to be important, of interest, controversial or unusual.
— Ditching "Body Bag Journalism" May Help Local TV Ratings

Stephens [on his book Broadcast News] (1993) cited six criteria for determining what is newsworthy: importance, interest, controversy, the unusual, timeliness, and proximity...
— Media Content Influences: Review of the Literature

So, to review: the six criteria for newsworthiness are importance, interest, controversy, uniqueness, timeliness and proximity. Not exactly the things this weblog deals in (specially that one about "importance"), but anyway...

Blogger.com survives hack attack
By Troy Wolverton
October 25, 2002

Bloggers can breath a sign of relief. Blogger.com is back in action following an attack that had locked out site users from their accounts.

This bit of news was timely relayed by Xian last Friday, when "someone using the monicker hax0redbyme" tampered with user's settings and redirected most of them to a bogus page. Later that day, he updated his readership to let them now "Blogger [was] back up."

The bit of information Troy Wolverton does add is about Blogger users' concerns with their personal data that resided on Blogger's servers:

In postings on the Web, some Blogger customers worried about the extent of the breach. While many use the Blogger site for free, some have paid for additional services, such as ad-free blog pages and additional tools, meaning that Pyra has their credit card information on file. Likewise, some Blogger users who publish their blogs to outside Web sites are worried that their user IDs and passwords to those sites could have been compromised also.

But Pyra believes the hack was a fairly low-level attack that didn't compromise outside accounts or credit card information, Shellen said. Credit card data, for instance, is kept on a different sever from the one that was attacked, he said.

"From what we can tell, this looks like a pretty juvenile job," Shellen said. "There's no way that (the credit card data) could have been breached."

Driver 8, the blog that allows its readers to create the content. No, not all Net jargon is created the same.

WRT slashland: I think the abbreviations are more to avoid dull repitition of common phrases, e.g. m/m for male-male sexual content.

This as opposed to hacker jargon: hackers are an insular group, and their jargon is designed to keep outsiders on the outside: 31337 h4x0rz alwayz 0wn you.

Kat Donohue • 10/25/02; 12:45:53 PM