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In the blog world, no individual is indispensable
Posted on May 3rd, 2007 on Daily Kos
Daily Kos had about 16 million visits in April 2007, a relatively small increase over the roughly 15 million visits in April 2006. This was a b...

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Daily Kos 4.0 Suggestions Thread
Posted on December 13th, 2006 on Daily Kos
OK, here's the first of probably what will be a few threads soliciting discussion on what the next version of Daily Kos should look like. What...

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Warnings
Posted on December 6th, 2006 on Daily Kos
One of the problems we've had in the past when people step out of bounds on the site, behavior-wise, is that our choice of responses was limited. We...

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New t-shirt slogan
Posted on November 21st, 2006 on Daily Kos
Okay, it's time for a new round of t-shirts in the Daily Kos store. We're retiring the "Mojo 4.0" ones, since they're obsolete with the demise...

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Advertising guidelines
Posted on November 14th, 2006 on Daily Kos
There was some pre-election controversy over my running a Chevron ad. (It may still be running, for all I know.) I avoided talking about it the...

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Searching Daily Kos with election tags (etags)
Posted on October 31st, 2006 on Daily Kos
(From the diaries -- kos) Last week I did some data mining for election tags (etags) and found the labels we've been using to keep track ...

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Midday open thread; Cal Berkeley event tonight
Posted on October 26th, 2006 on Daily Kos
In case you're in the Bay Area and want to see me, Lakoff, Joan Blades, and Robert Reich tonight: The Rockridge Institute cordially invites you ...

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More testing
Posted on October 23rd, 2006 on Daily Kos
We'll be doing more server stress testing today. So if the site slows or dies, it's all by design. And any such problems will be short-lived....

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Don’t send me irrelevant crap. Please
Posted on October 18th, 2006 on Daily Kos
I've lost control of my email. With about 600-700 non-spam emails hitting my inbox, I've been reduced to just scanning subject lines and the...

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Site problems
Posted on September 26th, 2006 on Daily Kos
Our hosting provider caches the site's images for performance and bandwidth reasons. For some reason, that system broke down this evening. The...

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Banner ad
Posted on September 25th, 2006 on Daily Kos
The site should start sporting a traditional banner ad within the next hour or so. It's an experiment of sorts. I'm not crazy about the lo...

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