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Wednesday, 07:51 pm, 13 October 2004 Whois in Control Afghanistan is the forgotten conflict. When you want to see who is in control of a company, if you want to track corporate structures and ownership, track the domain names. Domain name ownership shows two things. First, it shows when something is important for a corporate entity and second, it shows you when something is unimportant for a corporate entity. What you would imagine with the national domain names of Afghanistan and Iraq are inverted. Here is the Whois information on Afghanistan's national website. Domain Name:AFGHANISTANGOV.ORG Registrant Name:World Bank Registrant Organization:World Bank Registrant Street1:1818 H Street NW Registrant City:Washington Registrant State/Province:DC Registrant Postal Code:20433 Registrant Country:US There is no national website for Iraq. You'd imagine in an invasion with no Iraqi casualty count, there would be no need for a national website. This is the international face of Iraq; domain: iraqmofa.net status: production organization: Dynamic View owner: Hoshang Siwaily address: 61 Beaumaris Tower address: Park Road North city: London postal-code: W3 8RS country: GB This arrived in my intray last week. DO NOT DELETE-PLS PASS ON-Message from Iraq The proud warriors of Baker Company wanted to do something to pay tribute To our fallen comrades. So since we are part of the only Marine Infantry Battalion left in Iraq the one way that we could think of doing that is By taking a picture of Baker Company saying the way we feel. It would be awesome if you could find a way to share this with our fellow countrymen. I was wondering if there was any way to get this into your papers to let the world know that 'WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN' and are proud to serve our country. Semper Fi 1st Sgt Dave Jobe  Good night. Monday, 08:24 pm, 11 October 2004 Another Day Of Insular Internet Musin'... How do you remove the insular nature of the internet? I gave a presentation at NYU in 2000, and the fellow presenting prior to me was talking about the internet away from major centres of commercial interest. The individual was king to create their own websites and profit from the flow of traffic and contributions - emails, feedback - it would all come. 2000 wasn't the dark ages of the internet. It was clear by 1996 that there would be centres of information on the internet. That people would not adjust the default page on their web browser and thus, some sites and the sites these linked to would dominate the internet. I present exhibit A - Alexa.com. No Barbalet sites in the top 100,000. Not a sausage. I have been writing software and distributing it online since 1994-1995. I haven't always had the same URL. I've moved a couple of times but I've put in the work. There have been consistent relinks. I have contacted the major linkers and told them of the move. Barbalet's Log is the smaller of my two major sites. The Noble Ape site is still king - although not in the Alexa.com 100,000. Even though I don't maintain it as frequently as I once did, the Noble Ape site gets most of my sites traffic. Barbalet's Log does not maintain interest once people have hit it accidentally. For the past couple of months, most of the traffic to Barbalet's Log has been looking for skinhead information on Bill Riccio, thanks to this (the section titled, Controlling Yoof). To be honest, for all the stuff I write about on the Log, I find it a little disheartening that neo-Nazis come by the site so much. I've gone through various links drives for Barbalet's Log. That's why Mr Frosty Mug links through to the site, because I decided to write comments along a chain of sites following Doug Rushkoff's site. But now, there just aren't folks linking through to Barbalet's Log or reading the Log for a first time. My primary audience for the Log has always been my extended family over many corners of the planet. Following this, possibly folks that use Noble Ape and want to get a better sense of the author. Following this, the WeFunk underground seems to link through to the Log on occasion and also miniature folks and people viewing/downloading the Alienstar games. So, I guess I should be happy with the few clicks I get that aren't confused neo-Nazis. The internet can only continue to be more insular. Maybe I should do another weblog comment drive to drum up more clicks through to Barbalet's Log. Maybe. Good night. [ Previous Log ]
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