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Weblogging

Speaking freely among the weblogs

All of the following have been taken out of context. Speech is often times taken out of context. That’s the joy. That’s the sorrow. ————————————————- “And as a visual iconography of suffering, these images perhaps drew Americans even closer to the Israeli Jews whom they were already arming.” Daniel Ord “Would you kill me because […]

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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 […]