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Now You Can Create a Useless Account

Feb 09, 2007 2 Comments »

Great news for all of you who like creating user accounts on various websites. Now you can create a useless user account with an unlimited editing option. Isn’t it like a dream come true? Just imagine, you can create a user account just for the heck of it.

The website — UselessAccount — lets you create an online account to your heart’s content. It does nothing else. You create an account and that’s it. It is just there to pander to your fetish for creating innumerable accounts on the Internet. The innovator who created this revolutionary Web 2.0 service is even contemplating selling it to Yahoo! or Google in the future.

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They Should Blog Instead of Complaining

Feb 09, 2007 No Comments »

A few bloggers hired by Sen. John Edwards to cover his campaign are being heavily criticized by the Conservative Catholics for being “anti-Catholic, vulgar, trash talking bigots”. Wow! I would love to be branded like that :-). The Catholic League president, William Donohue says:

the language (of the bloggers) is “incendiary, it’s inflammatory. It’s scurrilous and has no place being part of someone’s resume who’s going to work for a potential presidential contender.”

I think it is just an ideological issue and nothing else and the bloggers shouldn’t be fired for just writing the way they should, and in fact, we all have a right to express our religious views. If the Catholic League nurtures some difference of opinion, I think they should start parallel blogs instead of issuing threatening edicts. What times do these guys live in?

HarperCollins to Promote Event on the BlogHer Network

Feb 09, 2007 3 Comments »

Literature literally thrives on the blogsphere (or blogosphere — I prefer blogsphere) and it is evident from the way the publishing houses are trying to leverage its reach. I just now discovered this news that HarperCollins is going to use the BlogHer network to promote an event. The release says:

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A Single Big Blog or Many Smaller Blogs?

Feb 08, 2007 No Comments »

It’s too early for me to talk about the commercial viability of my blog (I’m not even sure if I want to use my blog to earn direct money because I have other plans) but in terms of earning good money, is it better to have just a single, big, popular blog or run multiple blogs simultaneously under one network? This is a question a post titled Big Blog vs. Many Small Blogs at The Blog Herald asks.

I think both have their strengths. Big, single blogs have greater brand value and over the time, provided they publish good content, they grow more popular than the network blogs. Network blogs on the other hand quickly gain traffic from the network that democratizes the exposure. Given a choice I’d stick to the single blog concept because their is more individuality in it and you don’t have to cater to the whims of blog network management.

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Blogger Problems

Feb 08, 2007 No Comments »

I personally know a few bloggers who lost their two years of blog posts on Blogger.com and I wonder why people — at least serious bloggers — still use it. It doesn’t even come near to the top blog publishing software like WordPress or even MovableType.

Duncan Riley on 901am.com says that Blogger users have been unhappy for a very long time and there is no support from Google. I don’t think except for its highly commercial services like the AdSense Google has any customer support system for its free services.

Duncan refers to a recent article in the Computer World titled Bugs in Blogger prompt user complaints that says:

Users contacted in recent days via e-mail report a variety of problems, including the disappearance of blog entries, an inability to post comments, failed migrations to the new service and kinks with the RSS feature. They also said that Google has been unresponsive to support requests.

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