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Weblogging comment spamfest

Jonathon has started a new trend in weblogging — he’s giving a prize to the person who drops in the 1000th comment. That’s right boys and girls, this is your chance to win either a Dishmatique of your very own — the tool of choice for webloggers round the world — or a selection of that delectable […]

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Comment spamfest update

Bb here, reporting live from Jonathon Delacour’s Comment SpamFest. I can see that we have a few early birds among the festival attendees, including that mad man of the weblog airways, the master of the One Word Weblog, Steve Himmer. Steve’s comment is, well, urh, “No comment”. What can I say, folks — the man is a master […]

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Comment Spamfest two

More from Comment SpamFest: It was back in the early weeks of his weblog that Jonathon turned on comments. The first person to add one was Jeff Cheney who wrote: I wonder if Jonathon will notice this comment…. To which Jonathon responded: Thanks for commenting, Jeff. I did find your comment — but only by chance… No, no! Don’t […]

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Consortium cont.

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  B!x posted a link to my previous posting, Weblogging Consortiums, at Blogroots. I recommend that you read the comments attached to the posting. In particular, Matt of MetaFilter fame believes that the concept of weblogging consortiums is too idealistic, and too based on trust. Pulling one entire comment; burningbird, what you describe is ambitious, […]

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Weblogging Consortiums

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  This afternoon I was visiting Mike Golby and Jeneane Sessum when I realized that Blogspot was down. Again. I am not unmindful of what Blogger has provided to the community these last few years — a free and easy way for webloggers, especially new webloggers, to get their voices online. […]