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They barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and ma

They barely mentioned your website (fourth in five urls, mainly talking about indieblog.com and kagi.com/smallweb), so "That is my website!" is confusing and makes it seem like you're autoresponding to a keyword.

unsungNovelty 7mo ago
Why should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.
- speefers 7mo ago
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- jibal 7mo ago
  Yeah, it didn't confuse sensible people who are capable of putting themselves in someone else's shoes. I did a Small Web search at Marginalia and was immediately pointed to sites that claim that I and everyone in my political party are literally the spawn of Satan--I really don't think it's my thing. I helped develop the ARPANET back in 1969-1970 while working for the UCLA Comp Sci dept, got a brief mention in RFC 57, hold several network patents, and was on usenet before the usenix conference where we voted to call it that ... I'm bemused by all the people who claim that boomers are technologically inept (I think they have us mixed up with our parents). Anyway it's been a heck of a wild ride and didn't end up quite how JCR Licklider envisioned it.
  - mikestorrent 7mo ago
    You sound like someone with stories.... got any I can read?
    - jibal 7mo ago
      Nothing offhand that I can share. But take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Sta...
      - mikestorrent 7mo ago
        Thanks!
        jibal 7mo ago
        I wrote this in response to one of the reviews, so I'll share it with you since you asked. :-) I worked on an ARPA-funded speech understanding project in the 1970's at SDC--it was definitely driven by military interests. One time some of us techies were in our soundproof lab drinking wine and eating cheese and crackers when our manager brought to the big picture window an Iranian general bristling with medals--they both looked extremely unhappy. I also worked on ARPANET development at UCLA from 1969-1971, and there was none of that. The driving motivation was ARPA-funded researchers at universities being able to readily share their work. Is ARPA funding researchers at universities an issue that can be written about? Of course, but it has nothing to do with the ARPANET per se and isn't part of the story that this book is about. Oops--I left out a critical part of the SDC story--we were in the lab because it had an incredible sound system featuring a pair of high end AR-3 speakers. I don't recall what we were playing but I'm sure it sounded wonderful. We also did real work in that lab of course ... mostly recording things like "What is the surfaced displacement of the Lafayette?", which our primitive system running on (pathetically slow by today's standards) Raytheon 704 and PDP-11 computers would attempt to parse and answer. The text of course was selected for the sake of obtaining a grant from the USN. This early work, funded by the military, laid the basis for today's ubiquitous speech understanding systems. Are there issues with fundamental research being funded by the military or, say, big pharma, rather than as part of a direct planned effort by society to achieve social goals? Sure, and much can and should be written about that, but it's not the subject matter of this book.
        mikestorrent 7mo ago
        If it could actually parse your speech and come up with an answer in 1970, it must have felt amazingly futuristic. Star Trek was only a few year old at that point. Thanks for sharing that.
        7mo ago
- Noumenon72 7mo ago
  Auto-responding when Google Alerts spots your keyword on a new site would help promote your website. I missed that "That" meant "the site that matches my username" so I had gone through a process of "how is this guy claiming to own https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb" and "did he mean indieblog.page/random" and "why is he also saying he wrote something at unsungNovelty.org which doesn't match either of those". I never did figure it out, I opened all the links to check the author and finally got it. Sorry I was dumb. But antecedents are important.
  - unsungNovelty 7mo ago
    No worries. But If I am behind numbers, my website will be completely different with post cadence far more regular. Not saying regular posts are bad. In fact, I am currently working on finishing my writing backlogs. But still, not everyone is behind numbers. Especially like SEO/google kind of numbers.
mikestorrent 7mo ago
Get over yourself

unsungNovelty 7mo ago

Why should I auto-respond to a keyword? Just curious seeing it here buddy. Breathe easy.

speefers 7mo ago
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jibal 7mo ago
Yeah, it didn't confuse sensible people who are capable of putting themselves in someone else's shoes. I did a Small Web search at Marginalia and was immediately pointed to sites that claim that I and everyone in my political party are literally the spawn of Satan--I really don't think it's my thing. I helped develop the ARPANET back in 1969-1970 while working for the UCLA Comp Sci dept, got a brief mention in RFC 57, hold several network patents, and was on usenet before the usenix conference where we voted to call it that ... I'm bemused by all the people who claim that boomers are technologically inept (I think they have us mixed up with our parents). Anyway it's been a heck of a wild ride and didn't end up quite how JCR Licklider envisioned it.
- mikestorrent 7mo ago
  You sound like someone with stories.... got any I can read?
  - jibal 7mo ago
    Nothing offhand that I can share. But take a look at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/281818.Where_Wizards_Sta...
    - mikestorrent 7mo ago
      Thanks!
      - jibal 7mo ago
        I wrote this in response to one of the reviews, so I'll share it with you since you asked. :-) I worked on an ARPA-funded speech understanding project in the 1970's at SDC--it was definitely driven by military interests. One time some of us techies were in our soundproof lab drinking wine and eating cheese and crackers when our manager brought to the big picture window an Iranian general bristling with medals--they both looked extremely unhappy. I also worked on ARPANET development at UCLA from 1969-1971, and there was none of that. The driving motivation was ARPA-funded researchers at universities being able to readily share their work. Is ARPA funding researchers at universities an issue that can be written about? Of course, but it has nothing to do with the ARPANET per se and isn't part of the story that this book is about. Oops--I left out a critical part of the SDC story--we were in the lab because it had an incredible sound system featuring a pair of high end AR-3 speakers. I don't recall what we were playing but I'm sure it sounded wonderful. We also did real work in that lab of course ... mostly recording things like "What is the surfaced displacement of the Lafayette?", which our primitive system running on (pathetically slow by today's standards) Raytheon 704 and PDP-11 computers would attempt to parse and answer. The text of course was selected for the sake of obtaining a grant from the USN. This early work, funded by the military, laid the basis for today's ubiquitous speech understanding systems. Are there issues with fundamental research being funded by the military or, say, big pharma, rather than as part of a direct planned effort by society to achieve social goals? Sure, and much can and should be written about that, but it's not the subject matter of this book.
        mikestorrent 7mo ago
        If it could actually parse your speech and come up with an answer in 1970, it must have felt amazingly futuristic. Star Trek was only a few year old at that point. Thanks for sharing that.
        7mo ago
Noumenon72 7mo ago
Auto-responding when Google Alerts spots your keyword on a new site would help promote your website. I missed that "That" meant "the site that matches my username" so I had gone through a process of "how is this guy claiming to own https://kagi.com/smallweb https://kagi.com/smallweb" and "did he mean indieblog.page/random" and "why is he also saying he wrote something at unsungNovelty.org which doesn't match either of those". I never did figure it out, I opened all the links to check the author and finally got it. Sorry I was dumb. But antecedents are important.
- unsungNovelty 7mo ago
  No worries. But If I am behind numbers, my website will be completely different with post cadence far more regular. Not saying regular posts are bad. In fact, I am currently working on finishing my writing backlogs. But still, not everyone is behind numbers. Especially like SEO/google kind of numbers.

mikestorrent 7mo ago

Get over yourself