Points systems, blogging and ants... The ant and the cicada   a brief introduction... I have written recently an article tryingto demonstrate and explain the point system related to JU's blogsite, Pointssystems, blogging and ants... I was using a comparison with ants behavior tofind and gather food in the quickest way. I Theconclusion was that bloggsite points are revealingabout the quantity of visits generated by a blog, that this is an efficient systemto highligh...

From un-American to anti-American It has probably come to the attention of a lot of people thatD. Rumsfeld has been in an uncomfortable position for the last few days. Under therecent pressure, he has almost acted in a decent way, and even issue severalapologies, although his resignation is still lost in the fog of war. As you might have guess, I am not a big fan of Rumsfeld, evenif I can appreciate his special and subtle sense of humor from time to time.Nevertheless, I was a bit s...

New Page 1 Dear top 24 bloggers, I have written a sequel to a previous article "Points systems, blogging and ants... and why popularity stinks"which is focused on blogger's point systems. As a discussing base, I have usedthe following "personal data" of the first 25 bloggers: user points, #articles and # comments. It  consist of a small investigation through statisticalglasses and is by no mean a naming or mocking process .  However, as you may feel embarrassed to see you...

Points systems, blogging and ants... and why popularity stinks... For the last couple of months there have been a lot ofarticles about the fairness and the accuracy of the point systems,  somearticles were highlightinga few blogs  not fitting their criteria, others were pointing the artificial popularity due to externalvisitors. I would like to help the debate by proving the opposite.After all, you can always see a glass half empty or half full...and saying that the...

  I'm sorry to copy a title from Brad, but I was a bit outraged about hisarticle. (he is probably very happy about that...) Any people who believe in the power of justice and law would not allowhimself to have any deviation on torture because of their nationality. One of his argument is that abuse by US force is OK, it is just depending onyour angle. If your think that America is good for the world, so a little oftorture is good for the world. So I'm not American, I do think th...

New Page 1 A reason to fight for monarchy From an outside angle, I feel like American peopledon't know what it is to have a monarchy and the aristocracy that necessarily gowith it. I just can sympathize with that because French, like Germany, haven'tanymore any kind of significant royal family, not even for stamp illustrationpurpose. French particularly has develop highly skill to do real haircut... However, since I have been to England I started tounderstand the good side...

New Page 1 A reason to fight for monarchy From an outside angle, I feel like American peopledon't know what it is to have a monarchy and the aristocracy that necessarily gowith it. I just can sympathize with that because French, like Germany, haven'tanymore any kind of significant royal family, not even for stamp illustrationpurpose. French particularly has develop highly skill to do real haircut... However, since I have been to England I started tounderstand the good side...

New Page 1 I haven't been writing here for quiet a long time now,around one month and not for blogging. It is quiet a change compare to thealmost daily frequentation I had shown since December. I guess that after awhile the excitation is going down a bit, adding that I was really busy, thatI'm experiencing e-mule extensively and that I burnt my mother board, as aconsequence of pulling the donkey too much....  Not enough time and not enough brain to spare to write, even if I h...