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• Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
  AhahaHaHA! ... Oops. Tim, that would be logical. But this is the publishing industry you're talking about. Even the big publishers don't get that kind of real time fine-grained information. Bookscan -- the best book sales tracking network out there -- only captures about 50% of sales (in the US) and can tell you how they're doing from week to week. (In the UK, bookscan is a lot more efficient and, I'm told, captures everything, with daily granularity. But even so ...)...
• krc [clowersnet.net] commented on Ouch!
  I like to ensure my web experience is solid and runs cross-platform. And my choice of browser experience involves NoScript being enabled by default. And I cater to folks who think like me. So: no AJAX-based comments. I agree 100%. However, that doesn't rule out a well-written AJAX addition. If it is done right, it wouldn't be a problem for browsers that don't do JS well, nor for those with noscript. Note that Disqus is not an example of AJAX comments done right....
• klaupaucius commented on Ouch!
  Can you tell, what blog engine do you use?...
• Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
  Movable Type, somewhat customised, backing onto MySQL, on Linux ( not saying what flavour lest someone goes dumpster-diving for backdoors)....
• Charlie Stross commented on Ouch!
  Teresa, I don't think Bookscan in the UK knows who is buying what books -- merely how many copies of each title are sold. (I'm told Hachette's ability to track sales around the UK is astonishing to an almost scary degree -- able to track down to number of copies of a given title per individual store per day -- but again: they don't know who is buying them, much less who is reading them.) The most reassuring thing about the server-melting experience was learning that my ISP doesn't consider it to be an unusual load -- they have other...