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  • Naming names…

    Geek News Central has a post about unsubscribing to a handful of feeds that are both partial feeds, and filled with Google Ads. He was nice enough not to name names but I’m sure that any of you who subscribe to said feeds (Cough, cough, Lockergnome, cough cough..)know exactly who he’s talking about. Seriously, with…

  • Follow-up from yesterday

    Scoble has taken notice of his apparent contradiction and is promising a detailed post that will give us insight to how his views have evolved concerning Autolink and Greasemonkey. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt at this point, and await the explanation. Meanwhile the Peer Pressure Blog notes the likely arms race that…

  • Jumping into the fray

    Just because I think his stance is completely inconsistent and someone should take him to task over it. Robert Scoble, Feb 28, 2005 talking about Autolink: “I believe that anything that changes the linking behavior of the Web is evil. Anything that changes my content is evil. Particularly anything that messes with the integrity of…

  • Techie stuff

    Thanks for allowing me the temporary diversion in the interest of helping out Ohio’s libraries, now for the random techie comments: Perhaps the worst drive-by adware ever! According to Virtualsecurity.org, this one actually goes ahead and downloads the .NET framework if you don’t already have it, without asking, so it can use it to display…