Random notes on the Nick Denton blogging empire

I'm still getting the occasional hit at BoreAmerica.com from a year-old Wonkette entry about Air America.

Curious about the numbers at the end of that last URL, I visited Wonkette's home page and looked at the last five entries. These are the numbers at the end of their URLs:

039802
039800
039792
039769
039767

From that, Watson, I conclude that Denton is running at least one other - and perhaps all - of his sites off one copy of MovableType, because even if you have multiple blogs MT stores all the entries in one table using that number as the entries' unique key.

Then, Watson, I looked at the IP addresses of Denton's sites. I only checked four since I think I figured it out:

gawker 67.18.39.132
defamer 67.18.39.133
wonkette 67.18.39.135
gizmodo 67.18.39.136

Just to satisfy my own personal interest, I note that Wonkette's home page has a PR of just 6, and the second and third index pages have PRs of 0. However, the Air America page linked above has a PR of 4, and a more recent individual post has PR 5.

As for the picture of PBS NewsHour's Margaret Warner above, she's responding to my spurious questioning in which I proposed that she - and not Ann Marie Cox - is the model for the oh so sexy Wonkette graphic.

Bloggage · Wed, 04/13/2005 - 14:24 · · Importance: 1