The James Fee Fan Club Has a Charter Member
I’d respond on AllpointsBlog.com, but Adena is still trying to figure out why I can’t post there. Guess I’m just a spammer Adena!
You have to leave it to James Fee AKA Lefty AKA Anonymous to divert traffic from this website and milk the conversation for more ad click pennies!
Honestly James, when you can claim and rightly so to a certain degree, that Archive.org archives snapshots of “what people were doing (with their websites) in the past” (your words), surely WHOIS can also help find that. Try this link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois). I am sorry to see that you have little idea of how websites are registered- maybe website hosting is not your thing. Anyways, there is little need to “take pride in the fact that a Google search for ‘adjusted’ results in my blog as the top result” (your words and your need for an ego massage!). Why? Because a more likely reason is the relative number of websites with ‘adjusted’ either in the name or title.
Given what you reveal about your old-school knowledge of the internet, try being “with it” (your words) and some “spatial readjustment” (my words).
But glad to see you finally agreeing with us and beginning to appreciate the poly-centric “yada yada” (your words): “…there are tons of people who have no clue who the heck I am or even that I have a blog. I might have lots of readers in our little circle, but in the grand scheme of GIS as a whole I’m not even a blip on the screen” (your words).
And to think of it, I didn’t even know your blog until last week.
So please get back to this website, away from your spin zone and the comforts of your coterie and please don’t hide behind a pseudo name to post your reply. Thanks James Fee AKA Lefty AKA Anonymous AKA
aggregating-since-whenever.Lorrie
#7 Lorriana on 2006-08-04 12:28 (Reply)
Actually I have no response, I just wanted to make sure the world got to see this unstable comment. As Steve would say, “Don’t feed the troll!” Maybe it is a good thing I can’t post on AllPointsBlog right now.
OMG!
That is one messed up thread over on APB. Watch you back at the UC James.
Sorry James, I think I stirred this up. I’ll buy you a drink at the meetup at the UC.
James,
If it makes you feel better - I can’t post comments just now either on APB! I’ve got my tech guys looking at the problem. And, no you are not a spammer, fear not!
Adena
That’s a special kind of unhinged you see every now and then. Yikes!
“Given what you reveal about your old-school knowledge of the internet”
You need backup for the UC? No wait, ESRI’s UC is probably too old school for this fashionable young hipster. They’re probably waiting for either the Manifold user conference of for ArcCatalog to allow you to edit your Myspace blog.
/me shakes head
James, I’ve used the spatiallink.org weblog page before and despite what they said above, they used to aggregate your blog. It looks like you’ve been removed, but I bet if you check your weblogs you’ll see them.
Does this mean that because I own a domain, I have started a website directly related to the domain name? Like in 5 years, we’ll all talk about http://www.gbrowser.com and how it was the first google browser site or something?
Don’t really know all sides, but the comments you’re recieving aren’t quite “with it,” if you ask me…
This is continuing to be hilarious! This last week has been nothing but great post from you! I won’t be at the UC this year, but I’ll definitely buy you a beer next year at the UC for all this great entertainment
so, when & where is the JFFC meeting to buy our hero a beer out at “The UC”?
Come by the Blogger meetup.
You’ll have an opportunity to buy me a beer or chuck some batteries at me.
I must be slow tonight because I’m not following any of this.
1. I don’t see James posting on that thread over on APB, did I miss it?
2. I was unaware of any ads on Planet Geospatial or any “diverting” to this blog
3. This spatiallink.org seems dead. The posts on the blog section are quite old. Am I at the wrong website?
AlbertW, no that is the website. spatiallink.org is correct.
OK, thanks Critter.
James - I’ve been travelling this week and just popped in and saw this on-going cluster… three things come to mind:
1) I’ve seen spatial link before, but honestly laughed out loud at the site. You can have great content, but design and layout are important. Courier?? Really? Is that so it can come across the teletype? They use CSS, and have a mountain of javascript, so at the very least, they should have a different stylesheet and an option.
2) In light of item 1, think that you should have an stylesheet option which will convert PlanetGS to “courier font”. A sort of “homage”.
3) Anyone who’s getting all bent and saying stuff like “I was here first”, “We add value” blah blah blah, are basically just whining about the fact that PlanetGS is more popular. It would be cool if these people would spend the same effort innovating instead of whining. Don’t like something - do something better!
Cheers & Have fun at the UC
That is one crazy site- have they gotten more traffic out of this “pi throwing” than from anything else?If you check out the alexa stats, one of their top inbound links is from a comment pi made on a directions mag article a couple of years ago…
http://www.alexa.com/data/ds/linksin?q=link:spatiallink.org/&url=spatiallink.org/
At least it does lend some credence to their claims of being around pre-2005. In fact, many of the items on their front news page appear to be quite old.
to get back to Dave (comment 15)- this is one of the weirdest pages on the site:
http://www.spatiallink.org/plus/ Are they advertising design services?
matt m, the whole site is really weird. I mean they claim they have a blog aggregator that:
“At our end, we try to pack-in as many feeds in as less time with as little scrolling as possible using our own CMS”
I looked at the code and it appears they have a javascript function that allows you to move back and forth between what I guess are pages, but I can’t seem to get it to work in any browser. They are at the bottom footer.
If you sent me this link out of the blue, I would have told you the site is dead. Apparently not, but you don’t get a community feeling there.
Actually the most humorous part of all this is that they are picking of James for some reason. I can’t think of another GIS pro who has done more to give visibility to other people than he has. Heck he only shows partial feeds on Planet Geo so people will visit those sites rather than just read them on PGS.
Dave if you knew about this site I guess that means you are not part of my little “coterie”?
Hey James, they are posting about you again over there…
http://www.allpointsblog.com/archives/1690-Core-Blogs…-Update.html#c4282
anon, they have nothing positive to post. The keep lie right on APB right in front of everyone. They claim they have never heard of me, yet their used to post my feed to their “aggregator”. I can look in my server logs and see their site as a referrer:
They attack me on a blog that isn’t even theirs, polluting it with garbage. This is the last I’m going to post about these folks.
Ha! I told you I saw your blog on their site. Caught in a lie they are.
I may be a newbie, or just Canadian, but I can’t really find any useful function from spatiallink_org ?