Who is the king or queen in the blogosphere? Wordless or wordful blog?

Isn’ t it a pretty hot topic that you have to have a wordful blog or a wordless blog? What I call a wordful blog is a blog that contains many posts that each has at least a 200 hundred words. Those folks like ProBlogger will mostly ask you to write a post blog that is long enough in order to be liked by Google search engine and its crawler.

But, recently another type of wordless blog, ICanHasCheezBurger, a very famous blog that is all about those cute and funny pics of fat pussies simply for LOL. This kinda of blog is simply wordless or contains only one or two lines of words as what is mentioned in the pic. And they’re full of grammatical and spelling mistakes. Of course, it’s definitely a blog full of fun, funniest ever over the blogosphere with all the cute pics of those fat cats. It’s not meant for writing formal stuff, the kinda of grammatical & spelling mistakes are simply meant for the cats, for the LOL fans, that’s how they keep it funny. And they’ve even triggered some hot trend over the famous “icanhas” phrase and people seem to create the kind of craze to purchase those “icanhas” domain names.

By judging at ICanHasCheezBurger’s archives, it’s only a blog of 7-month-old started in January, this year. But, it’s obvious that it’s a super hot blog that receives millions of page views a day and makes few hundred dollars or more from blog ads a day. This can all be learned from its WhosAmungUs stat counter that shows over 500-1,000 concurrent LOL fans over the past 10 minutes. Theb history about this blog was it first started by the two programmers which was meant to have fun only. And they started finding the traffic doubled each month. Finally they “can has blogads” that is profitable enough to even make them quit their day job and focused on this blog!

My conclusion is your blog needs to be unique with content, no matter it’s the kinda of long content or simply short content or only funny pics. The most important is keeping a blog to target audience instead of search engines. But think in another way, isn’t it ICanHasCheezBurger able to pull more organic traffic from the search engines, due to most performing searches on Google or Yahoo all failed to spell or construct sentence correctly? It could be! That could be the way how the cheezburger managed to pull all the traffic initially. Of coz, the icanhas blog is definitely the funniest one that ensures its success to retain its audiences! Ummmm… started thinking of to have more typo in blog posts here, so I could probably pull more organic traffic, LOL!

SELinux dead annoying?

As mentioned before I have just switched to Fedora Core 7. But after switching what I’ve found dead annoying is the SELinux. I haven’t got much clue about what this SELinux is about. It seems to be some kind of new security policy for program execution that has been added for the recent distributions of Linux system. I appreciate the additional security on Linux, but it damn gives some inconvenience especially coming to installing third party software.

The first thing I wanna do after getting my Fedora Core 7 was to get my Apache web server with PHP to run. I quickly mounted my own old hard drive that is still on Fedora Core 3, where I have an Apache there. I tried to start that Apache on the mounted partition, but it failed to start telling me message saying “cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied” (Preceded with other longer message, so not handy to print here). At first I thought this was due to different lib or modules with the new kernel that I had to recompile my Apache + PHP (I’m used to using the unix compilation version instead of those RPMs). So, I did that for all the Apache and PHP, going thru those ./configure , make, make install. All gone thru well, and then I tried to start Apache again. Agai, it showed me similar problem, the same message.

The only thing I could do then was to google around, by typing the message “”cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied” into Google’s search text box. And I found this web page telling me that SELinux is the culprit behind all these. So, I followed the instruction, first I tried to issue the command

chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/local/www/modules/libphp4.so

Then tried to restart Apache, but it seemed to give NO avail. So, I then tried using the GUI SELinux Management tool, by adding label, but the system gave me a big window with all the errors… as shown in the following attached screenshot.

Finally, I decided to set SELinux to disabled (I set it to enforcing during installation time as I didn’t know much about what it was. My thought was having extra security was good at first). So, I did that by editing /etc/sysconfig/selinux , then set SELINUX=disabled instead of enforcing. I then thought I probably needed to do some kind of /etc/init.d/selinux restart to activate it, but it has nothing to do with that. When I got back to the SELinux GUI Management, it showed me the System Default Enforcing Mode is now “disabled”, but the Current Enforcing Mode still remained “enforcing”. Then I tried to start my Apache, this time it works! Even though I set the SELINUX variable in the /etc/sysconfig/selinux back to “enforcing”, I still can start and run my Apache web server. So, this currently left me some kind of puzzle which the one that had taken effect to let the Apache run. The only thing I need to do is to explore more about this new SELinux security feature. Or totally disable SELinux to avoid any hassle for running any 3rd party software. Doesn’t it mean, we have to sacrifice some security if we wanna run some 3rd party software on newer disti of Linux? Sounds getting more complex. But, I’ll try to explore more about SELinux when I have some free time later.