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For those of us that are blessed with always-on-broadband: Bloglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator is the bomb. I started using it a couple of days ago. Right away I could import my subscriptions in OPML format (from Amphetadesk, Radio or whatever else you was using before Bloglines). It allows me to categorise the feeds I have (50 feeds so far), share them among friends and the rest of the Bloglines community. I can search my subscriptions directly in Bloglines or search all feeds that Bloglines indexes. You can also […]

Arve writes about how the RSS format has disintegrated into a mess of incompatible formats: 11 ways to valid RSS I think its apparent that there is a need for a standardised format to do what RSS is trying to do today.

Now I have experienced being taken off the net by a comment spammer. Some lame ass trying to advertise his prono-site attacked my server with comments. Handeling MySQL inserts, page rebuilds etc. just got to much when MT was told to do it several times a second. Luckely I discovered it in time to shut down the webserver, block the offending IP, and then restart. Now I am curious to see if the ISP of the offender will take action against him/her/it.

While nothing new to the Flash / MM community, the addition of the Macromedia Affiliate program has raised some eyebrows. Todd Dominey write in his blog What Do I Know about the affiliate program, referring to it as kickback Imidiatly there are comments such as “you just became a fulltime salesperson for them”. Which makes me wonder, do people actually think that hosting a blog with a lot of traffic is free? And do they belive that people will sell out for some few dollars from some “bigco”? Come on

Couldn’t resist linking to this article: Wired News: Aggregators Attack Info Overload [Via JD on MX]

Good article at Trendwatching.com: Companies ‘googling’ their customers to offer them personalized services. I’ll come right out and say it: I am using Google in that way already, and have been for a while. Mostly because I am a curious fscker. Now I have a good reason to quote if anyone wonders why I am reading up on them ;-) Seriously though, I can see the benefit in this. So to my next hotel: I like seaside views, English breakfasts and comfy beds. *g* [Via A Whole Lotta Nothing]