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After some time, I finally had made up my mind. The blogsphere has taken up much share of the commercial world. Too many blogs providing various and multiple information on products and technology. In most time, we don't know whether the information appeared to be true or false.

Undeniable that it has become part and parcel of the blogsphere to do something related to the commercial side of it. So am i. With the choices I have, I ended up with adsense and nothing but adsense. I used to dislike and avoiding PayPerPost. However, the time has come. Resistance is futile. This means that soon, once I getting the approval the PPP will come. Yes, indeed.  

While “ranters” are easy to detect and dismiss, bloggers with a bit of self-control can be very effective at spreading false information and even doing the bidding of hidden others.

My guess is that we’ll all have reason to “filter” what we read in blogs and perhaps my recent experiences will help you catch “the bad ones.”

The unofficially official blogger. Many companies offer their employees a public blogging platform often under the company domain name. The issue here is that you have a writer who appears to speak in the name of the company – even though said company has a “fine print” disclaimer saying “the opinions expressed here are their own…”

 

Taken from NetworkWorld

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What the hell is this number appearing in technorati?  

Finally, I heard they say that it's a High Def DVD Decryption Code Controversy that caused the web uproar. The protection of the privacy and the legal impact.

But maybe I am noob, coz' I will have no use of the strings of number. But what makes it great is that the digg.com users were really furious and keep on digg-ing it

Among all reviews about the numbers, the best was from Download Squad 

 It’s the most circulated number of the week. Sixteen hexadecimal digits that unlock the wonder of most currently released HD-DVD titles from the surly clutches of the AACS revenue content protection system. Sixteen digits that have been posted in so many places — and in many cases, removed only to be reposted — that they’re hard to avoid.

Cory Doctorow’s class blog for his USC course, “Pwned: How everyone on campus is a copyright criminal” was served a DMCA takedown notice and, on the advice of counsel, removed the offending digits. They were posted to Wikipedia, then removed and locked from reposting. Then the diggstorm came. A slew of digg stories containing the forbidden digits have been posted, made the front page and been removed, only to start again.

Witness the modern equivalent of the 95 thesis’ Martin Luther nailed to the door of Wittenburg church. We, digital citizens —commonly referred to by the vulgar term of ‘consumers’ — have had enough of content lock-in. We’ve bought and re-bought entertainment media — repackaged and regurgitated digital vomitus — until we’re blue in the face. We’ve been told time and time again that DRM is for our own protection, and we’re finally and inconsolably fed up.

As Joe Rogan’s character on Newsradio once quite accurately quipped, “Dude, you can’t take something off the Internet… that’s like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.” The content providers have attempted to do exactly that, remove pee from the proverbial swimming pool that is the Internet and, as we’ve witnessed so many times before, they’ve failed miserably.

The bottom line remains, we as consumers, want our content free (as in Freedom) and if we don’t get it, we’ll take our content free (as in beer).

 

The metaphor used is truly blunt and I like the way they put the pieces together. Things spread really fast. Like fire in the wild bush. 

*I felt sick. I think I am sick. I need a hug and a bowl of tender loving care. Nah, make it a bucket before I kick the bucket. Enjoy your weekend guys! * 

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When we playing online games, it seems like we are living in the virtual world. The last time I played Utopia, I was like remembering when is the utopian days as in our hours. So, when this Ansch Chung (Ailin Graef) decided to start a virtual world, and making thousands from it, I begin to feel curious.

According to Chung, in June 2004 she began selling and creating custom animations and then used this money to buy and develop virtual land. This is also considered the beginning of her business where, for the first time, she kept and reinvested funds instead of giving them away. Chung currently owns hundreds of servers worth of land, most of which are sold or rented to other users as a part of her ‘Dreamland’ areas. Within Dreamland various levels of zoning rules are enforced; most other land in Second Life is unzoned, where multiple different types of business or housing are located in adjacent areas. Philip Rosedale, the CEO of Linden Lab – the company that produces Second Life – has referred to Anshe as “the government” when referring to the role she plays managing her regions.

- From Wikipedia.com

Last I heard is that Sweden decided to start an embassy in the Second Life. Meaning, there will be a parallel world known as Second Life in the Internet? Wow… things are getting surreal. But does it means that I can own a house in virtual Second Life but homeless in real life? I just couldn’t understand of being the first virtual millionaire?

More about Second Life?

Technorati and Ansch Chung

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