Monthly Archives: May 2011

Miami Beach 411 Profiles Coral Gables

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

They like it here! And so do we.

Coral Gables; The City Beautiful Still Lives Up to its Name – Miami Beach 411.

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A New Form of Crowdsourcing

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

In Washington, D.C., Homicide Watch D.C. editor Laura Amico noticed something odd in her Google Analytics reports yesterday: People were coming to her site looking for "20 year old male killed on fort stanton se may 4."

Turns out the cops were not reporting the homicide, but it was real.

via Google Analytics Reveal an Unreported Homicide | techPresident.

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Some Optimism, of a Sort

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

I don’t know if he is a reliable narrator, but Michael Moore tells a good yarn in The Day I Was To be Tarred and Feathered.

I mention this because it sort of parallels something I’ve been thinking recently: the wheels are really starting to come off the Republican insurgency. It’s only starting, and there’s some considerable momentum left before it collapses. And meanwhile a lot of people are going to be hurt. Indeed there will be a great deal of misery in the next two years due to what the national party does in Congress and to what state parties do here in Florida and in other GOP-dominated states like Wisconsin. But they’ve overplayed their hand. People are going to hate the results, and I think the pendulum will swing the other way so long as progressives are able to clearly explain who is responsible (and so long as most Democrats don’t decide to play along).

Abraham Lincoln is reputed to have said “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” Whoever said it, I think it’s true.

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Shopping Horrors Await

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

Grant McCracken argues in The Coming Point-of-Sale Revolution that the future of in-store marketing is lots of perky people smiling at me. They might even punch me.

It is worth a read. But it also creeps me out as an idea. Just the thought of it — or is it the thought of me thinking about how I think about it? — makes me feel like (or think I’m thinking like) Lou Grant (starting at about 2:26 in the clip below).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNyj4FV56JY

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Good Question

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

Brigid Crawford asks, What Does Marital Status Have to Do with Fitness to Practice Law?.

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IPv6 Considered Dangerous (Updated)

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

The blog was down much of the day while I was busy in Baltimore and Washington (how does it know to die whenever, and almost only whenever, I’m out of town?). Here, according to support, is the cause:

The apache service did not like the initial IPv6 assigned to the domain. I changed out the IP and reset the apache service for the domain and I can now view the domain.

I don’t actually understand how this is possible, but if this is the straight dope, it suggests IPv6 adoption is going to be much rockier than I ever imagined.

Update: I asked for further and better particulars, and got this:

The tech who helped you is not in the office. Therefor I cannot give you an definitive answer. However, I had a similar issue on another machine. It appeared to be a kernel bug. The IP was visible to the VPS guest, but could not use. It appache cannot listen on an IP, it will not start. The best course of action was to simply renumber the IP. Hopefully this gives you more insight. If you have any additional questions, please let us know.

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