Oh the irony!
Just as I'd finished writing a piece about Labatt's WordPress Blog updates, along comes another. Be careful clicking that link, by the way..
This one, however, made me laugh out loud. Why?
Well, the subject is about visitors to web sites and forums and their anonymity or otherwise and it links to another great article on A List Apart. The latter notes recent attempts at using Wikipedia for other means, much as I touched on earlier.
Which, of course, is ironic given ezboard's history both in terms of its use of Wikipedia and for ezboard's attempts to access certain message boards (private and public) anonymously (and yes, before the faux-legal letters start coming in, I can back that up, publicly if desired...).
But what is also ironic is that that update by Labatt contains a hidden link back to Yuku's stats. (provided by Mint) so that each time that blog entry is loaded, it appears to be tracked so ezboard can monitor who read it.
Here's a partial source listing for the part of the entry before (and including) the link to the A List Apart article.
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Of course, it could just be a bad cut and paste job: note the screen resolution, etc.
