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Re: Hug a Blogger

Claude Gelinas — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:35:21 -0000

The internet is meant to be fully bi-directional.

Blogs are meant to let the readers add upon any available article, usually written by the almighty blogger

As such, if the blogger does a darn good job at summing up an issue, perhaps there's very little left to add... and that's why some absolutely dazzling articles get little or no comments, even though they've been read and greatly appreciated.

Perhaps blogs need another "system" for readers to manifest their appreciation of any given article (over and above the ubiquitous comments).

Just a tought ; )

Re: http://laughingsquid.com/wordpress-inc/

Claude Gelinas — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:50:15 -0000

Matt is truly an entrepreneur I admire!

His first employee is quite lucky to be working on a excellent blog script like WordPress. Bloggers from the world over can rejoyce over this excellent news.

Go for it Matt, you rock!

Re: Comedy Central Breaks Story of Donald Rumsfeld Resignation | Laughing Squid

Claude Gelinas — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:22:54 -0000

The 21st US Secretary of Defense has either made great strides towards a lasting world peace or all the right moves to push us all towards a new world order where the "war on terror" is ongoing.

Sometimes, lasting peace comes from the simple thought of "wanting peace to happen".

Re: PayPerPost forces disclosure

Claude Gelinas — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:51:35 -0000

Disclosure does not have to be within the post itself and to me, that's a problem.

It should be clearly labeled, in every individual post.

When a netizen reads a "blogmercial", it needs to be clearly marked. A blogger's integrity means a lot, online or off. Mixing impartial articles with "publicity pieces" might upset some readers.

E-mail, for one, is still dearly suffering because of spam so I respectfully wish (I know, it's just a wish) bloggers would remain vigilant with the "pay-per-post" business model.

Re: Amazon to launch eBook device and “service” later today

Claude Gelinas — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:50:23 -0000

The device is so limiting that I fail to see why anyone wouldn't pay a few hundred dollars more and get a beautiful -and nicely featured- portable computer.

In all fairness, a local library card (which is free where I live) beats this device in almost every way... and I get to hold a "real book" in my hands ; )