Dan Feidt's log on Minnesota, Information Operations, spinstorms and latent contradictions.
I am down in The Mac Weekly office right now and I probably ought to start laying out the Opinion section now (including Jack Phinney's hilarious letter), but I thought that it would be a good idea to quickly post something about the changes on the site since last week and a whole new project that's now up and running.
This weekend I installed a powerful software package called MediaWiki on my server, which offers me the ability to stash an infinite amount of information on interlinkable dynamic web pages until the DogCows come home.
The new project is called the HongWiki, and for now it is a totally public system. That is, you don't even need to have a login on the server to make a page, add text or upload images. If this gets abused, the public access will have to be closed off, but hopefully that won't happen for a while.
Also, I have found that HongPong.com has achieved the top spot in some interesting Google searches, bringing this site to a (small) commanding height in the emerging global information economy. If you run a search for "Democratic Spectacle in Des Moines" or "west bank settler Douglas Feith," you will find HongPong.com as the top result. "West Bank Douglas Feith" puts my site as the fifth result.
It is not really a surprise that the 'Democratic Spectacle' search would come to this site, since that was the headline of a story I wrote when checking out the Democratic caucus process in Iowa a year ago. It is really just a funny search string.
But how did I get highly linked with Israeli settlers and our fanatical and dangerously incompetent defense undersecretary for policy? It just goes to show that not enough people, even out in this 'blogosphere' (I hate using that word) give a damn about the connection between messianic-eschatological political movements and the Pentagon.
So then, if I argue that there is an Israeli-American hegemon effect in politics, does this mean that since I dominate a search string that directly refers to this hegemon, now I'm a part of it? (talk about your foucaultian networks of power)
(By the way, what the hell is the DogCow Wiki?)
Posted by HongPong at November 9, 2004 08:38 PM