Comments on: Bittorrent Experiment: Wild Success http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/10/03/bittorrent-experiment-wild-success/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bittorrent-experiment-wild-success A journal of geekery, music and joy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bits http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/10/03/bittorrent-experiment-wild-success/#comment-649 bits Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2043#comment-649 what is the deal with not being able to see the target of most of the links on your site in the status bar of firefox? i would like to be able to see where a link is taking me before i click on it. what is the deal with not being able to see the target of most of the links on your site in the status bar of firefox? i would like to be able to see where a link is taking me before i click on it.

]]> By: mike dunn http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/10/03/bittorrent-experiment-wild-success/#comment-650 mike dunn Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2043#comment-650 for clarity - dave, i use firefox and see "all" the targets for links on your entire site - except for the google ads, and that is a problem w/ every site (not sure if it's google or firefox) - not just egc... for clarity – dave, i use firefox and see “all” the targets for links on your entire site – except for the google ads, and that is a problem w/ every site (not sure if it’s google or firefox) – not just egc…

]]> By: Dave http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/10/03/bittorrent-experiment-wild-success/#comment-651 Dave Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2043#comment-651 <p>I use the clicktrack blosxom plugin so that all the links in the stories are rewritten to be redirects off this site (not unlike what Google does now.) This lets me tell which outbound links people are following and gauge what people pay attention to. Sometimes you learn unpleasant truths, like that for a year after I posted about it, my most followed link was to the Robert Tilton "Farting Preacher" movie. </p> <p>If you have Javascript turned off, that might cause the issue. It uses Javascript to update the status bar so that instead of the very long URL (which is the original preceded by "http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi?redirectURL=" ) to a status that just says "to <orginal URL>". If your Javascript in your Firefox isn't allowing that, then maybe it is just showing nothing. Dunno, but it is probably related to that. </p> I use the clicktrack blosxom plugin so that all the links in the stories are rewritten to be redirects off this site (not unlike what Google does now.) This lets me tell which outbound links people are following and gauge what people pay attention to. Sometimes you learn unpleasant truths, like that for a year after I posted about it, my most followed link was to the Robert Tilton “Farting Preacher” movie.

If you have Javascript turned off, that might cause the issue. It uses Javascript to update the status bar so that instead of the very long URL (which is the original preceded by “http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi?redirectURL=” ) to a status that just says “to <orginal URL>”. If your Javascript in your Firefox isn’t allowing that, then maybe it is just showing nothing. Dunno, but it is probably related to that.

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