Culture in the Age of Blogging

This is quite a long article, but it is also quite interesting. I highly suggest you read the whole thing. It makes some interesting points about culture, blogging, main-stream media, and so forth.

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Spam This

Spam is a serious problem. For example, one of the user’s here at StarKeith.net shut down their email address here because they were getting so much spam. Unfortunately, the spam kept coming – filling the account past it’s quota and blocking up the mail server’s emergency queue (or “buffer”).

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DHS Enforces Copyright?

Bruce has got a good point – and he raises a good question: “why is the Department of Homeland Security busting video pirates?”

Linkies!

This neat “trackback” thing is pretty cool! Blogger never had any such capability, but now that I’m using WordPress, I can already see that at least one person has linked to me. Viva la Blogosphere!

RSS can kiss my ass

After futzing about with standards, formats, and all that jazz, I’ve settled on just using the built-in RSS 2.0 feed that comes from WordPress.

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