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SPAMtastic !!!!

Wow! Look at what people are saying about my blog:

I am so impressed with this blog. I totally agree, in my humble opinion. Make sure you post often.Blog away!.

I can’t believe how nice this site is. Not everyone has to totally agree, but I certainly do. If you don’t mind I will back to visit.I will spread the good word.

Very impressive blog. I totally agree, in my humble opinion. I hope to see this site for a long time.Thank you so much.

I am jealous of this blog. I love the content on this blog. I will add your site to my favorites.Great job.

How can I get an RSS feed on this blog? I am new to this and really like the content being discussed here.

I must be doing the right thing because Blogger Idol seems to be getting the same comments. W00t!

the need to catch the next [online] wave

How many of you have actually gone to a wireless hotspot, logged onto the net, and then suddenly get sucked into your browser, ignoring the friends you made time to go out with in the first place?

In Butch Dalisay’s latest Penman column for the Star, he writes about the WiFi phenomenon that’s hitting the Philippines. There’s a hotspot in every coffee shop, mall and high end resto in the metro. It’s like as if we really need it!

Scary thing is that nowadays, with how fast our lives go, we actually do need it. We actually need to rush to the nearest coffee shop to send email. To turn in a story. To mail those pictures. To call that client via VoIP.

I was elated to have found that Butch made reference to a piece I wrote some time ago about WiFi and social norms.

In what’s become an odd downside to wi-fi, people in cafés now talk less to each other where there’s wireless to go and a laptop to play with. As happens in many of our PhilMug “wala lang” meetings, half a dozen geeks might trot out their machines on a long table, order drinks, and start chatting with absent friends or even each other – on wi-fi. As tech writer Jayvee Fernandez notes in one of the best-produced tech blogs to have emerged recently at The AfterMac, “WiFi as a social concept, at least here where I’m from, is null and void. On many occasions where my friends bring portables to a coffee shop, the buzz of conversation dies down, replaced by the muffled clicking of their trackpads. I guess the best place to start is going wireless in a pizza joint. Social food is always good. That’s Adel and myself with our PowerBook and iBook chatting, downloading stuff and sharing photos while waiting for our pizza.”

My Space The Movie

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A tribute to online social networks!

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what happens when a blog gets sold?

Several weeks ago, The Blog Herald went up for auction for around 75,000 US dollars. Just yesterday, the press release was that BlogMedia Inc bought TBH.

My question is, what happens when a blog gets sold to someone else?

1. You say goodbye. Duncan does his farewell post, comparing the blogosphere to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything (for those of you Douglas Adams fans).

2. You mitigate weaknesses and highlight strengths. A question I’ve been asking myself when a blog get sold is that “are your readers sold along with the package?” By definition, blogs could be classified by their purpose – as an online journal that is read because of the person writing it, or because of the content espoused by the person(s) writing it. Or both. For instance, I highly doubt that Hugh McLeod would sell his blog to some network (yes, a really dumb idea) and have someone else take it over. That’s because people read Hugh to read Hugh’s ideas. To read Hugh’s comics. To read Hugh’s musings over the Hughtrain.

On the other hand, commercial blogs like TBH are like the daily paper with a mix of news, opinion and some gossip. You don’t need to put a face on the product.

3. You wonder why blogs get created in the first place. You wonder why some thrive. You wonder why some die. You wonder how Google became the measuring stick for blog popularity.

4. You go on a blogging cruise this October 2006.

Congratulations Duncan and enjoy the airconditioning!

the mother of all muck

Eww.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.

Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held some 240,000 litres of pig manure.

“The village was swamped with green-brown liquid and it was pig manure — the mother-of-all muck,” said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.

Reuters

Discuss.