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Weblogging

Blogtank comments

Much of the discussion over at the new Blogtank is how to handle posts/comments from all the participants. Especially the comments. If you’re a fairly regular reader then you know that I consider my comments and the interactivity between my readers to be the best part of weblogging. And I’ve been lucky to have great readers who […]

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Diversity

Words, words, them damn words

Andrea wrote an extremely thoughtful discourse on why she doesn’t like to label herself as a feminist. Her posting follows from a link to another equally thoughtful posting on the “feminist” label at Anita’s. As we’ve seen, the word “feminist” brings with it so much baggage, good and bad. When I say I am a feminist, and […]

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Weblogging

The Blogtank RFP

Having an extraordinarily fun time coming up with an RFP (Request For Proposal) of the perfect technology that would support something like Blogtank. I haven’t had this much fun in the longest time. Come over and join the fun! Add your 0.02 worth! This is what the web was meant to be!

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Religious Freedom 2

From Dave I found the references to news stories about the Church of Scientology’s use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to get Google to pull links to pages of well known anti-Church of Scientology web sites, such as Clambake (Xenu), from the Google databases. Regardless of my feelings about Scientology, this one act puts them beyond what is reasonable and […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Religious Freedom

How not to deal with direction confrontation about religion in this country. John Robb has the following to say: Google forced to remove anti-Scientology links. I don’t agreee with the Germans on many things (although I lived there). But, I agree with the Germans when it comes to Scientology (by saying this I am being listed […]