The History of f++ Part I
The two students came up with the next big thing: a new search engine that would work with distributed computing and would be able to rank pages based on relevance and popularity. The computer instructions would be tamper proof. You couldn’t buy your way to the top.
Now in the history of the mankind - absolute power has always corrupted - absolutely. However, how would a set of computer instructions set into robotic crawlers withstand this edict.
The f++ company quickly became larger and more powerful than any other software company. f++ was the web.
The f++ robots encircled the world at the speed of light, indexing physical books, blogs, movies, emails, desktops - and just about anything that could be used to display ads.
One day, the founders shocked the world when they retired and went off to do charitable work. The next didn’t have the high moral goals of the founders.
It’s true, the second generation had been picked by the founders - but here the founders made a bad mistake and were fooled by the seconds.
And so - suddenly the world found itself depending on an entity that knew everything about everybody - high and low. The founders had discovered that they could become even more powerful if they used the knowledge which the robot crawlers had attained…
Comments
Comment from dave
Time: June 11, 2007, 8:05 am
Anyone else have a problem with the RSS feed? Or does Cymen mean the Social Bookmarks… dunno. I haven’t tried all the bookmarks but the few I tried seem to work.
Comment from Cymen
Time: June 11, 2007, 9:50 am
I should have been clearer. I mean the link in the “meta” category named “entries rss” that goes to FeedBurner.
Comment from Luke
Time: June 11, 2007, 11:16 am
Sadly, the feeds don’t work. If I try to use your Atom feed, it leads to a Feedburner 404 page. If I use Google Reader to use its magic, it comes up with updates to your home page, I think, but the feed entries don’t actually contain anything. At least, clicking the article header takes me to your home page not here.
You might also want to upgrade to Wordpress 2.2. It contains a number of important security fixes. Upgrade doesn’t take long.
Comment from dave
Time: June 11, 2007, 12:27 pm
Thanks all. I’m trying to figure out the feed stuff…
Right now — uh — I can’t even find the http://www.beckermanphoto.com/feed/ directory through ftp which is where the rss stuff is supposed to be… Yup… problem is that the feed directory isn’t being populated with rss stuff… hmmm
Comment from Luke
Time: June 11, 2007, 4:31 pm
Feeds are working now. They’re showing up properly in Google Reader, and clicking the link takes me to the correct page on beckermanphoto.com.
Comment from dave
Time: June 11, 2007, 6:22 pm
Not sure what fixed it. I deleted the feedburner feeds. I removed a feedburner widget. I copied some code from another theme’s header file relating to rss etc. etc. The thing that still has me confused is that I don’t actually see a “feed” directory.
Comment from Luke
Time: June 11, 2007, 7:58 pm
You don’t see actual feed files in a feed directory. Wordpress reads the URL and then generates the feed on-the-fly. My guess is that the Feedburner widget interfered with Wordpress’s processing of the URL.
Comment from Cymen
Time: June 11, 2007, 5:16 am
Just a note to say the entries RSS feed is non-functional. I enjoyed reading your experience with digital.