Posted by Jacob Klein

There comes a moment in every webmaster’s career when the proverbial planets seem to align. A moment when the standard cavalcade of “what ifs,” “yes, buts,” and “if/thens” that claw at the soul of any self-aware web marketer are, however briefly, appeased. For this humble webmaster, that day came April 1^st, 2013; a day for fools, some say.

It started as a simple gag designed to target what I assumed at the time to be a very niche set of potential readers and influencers. I wasn’t expecting much more out of the prank beyond a few chuckles from those who were already within our modest sphere of influence. But April Fool’s Day was fast approaching, and after several revisions and second guesses, I just went for it.

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As the one millionth visi...

Posted by Jacob Klein

There comes a moment in every webmaster’s career when the proverbial planets seem to align. A moment when the standard cavalcade of “what ifs,” “yes, buts,” and “if/thens” that claw at the soul of any self-aware web marketer are, however briefly, appeased. For this humble webmaster, that day came April 1^st, 2013; a day for fools, some say.

It started as a simple gag designed to target what I assumed at the time to be a very niche set of potential readers and influencers. I wasn’t expecting much more out of the prank beyond a few chuckles from those who were already within our modest sphere of influence. But April Fool’s Day was fast approaching, and after several revisions and second guesses, I just went for it.

[Yadda, yadda, yadda…]

As the one millionth visi...

WikiLeaks has announced the release of the “Kissinger Cables,” a set of 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic records, dating from 1973 to 1976.

The Kissinger Cables are comprised of more than 1.3 million full diplomatic cables and 320,000 originally classified records, WikiLeaks claims. The collection also includes 205,901 records relating to former U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger (hence the name)

All in all, the Kissinger Cables contain around 700 million words, which makes it five times as large as Cablegate — WikiLeaks’ release of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables in November 2010

“The collection covers US involvements in, and diplomatic or intelligence reporting on, every country on Earth...

Google has experienced healthy sales of their Nexus 7 tablet, but you won’t hear it from them. According to analyst Benedict Evans, the company has sold between 4.5 and 4.6 million slates since launching last summer. While the figure is a triumph for Google — the company had hoped to sell 3 million tablets by the end of 2012 — it falls short of some predictions. It doesn’t match sales of Apple’s iPad Mini and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, either.

As recently as December reports suggested that Google could move as many as 7 million Nexus 7 tablets by the end of last year. The current estimate, based on sales data from ASUS, Google’s partner in manufacturing the N7, still falls within the low range of initial projections.

Rumors already have the next Nexus 7 launching later this year...