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Archive for January, 2006

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Great news on the community front:

Nearly a year and a half ago, we wrote about a lawyer who was upset at being mocked on some Yahoo message boards — and tried to organized a class action lawsuit against the company and some of the posters. He was upset at Yahoo for (1) failing to [...]


A blog without comments … is it a blog?

I recently came across this blog post asking the question: Is a blog that doesn’t allow comments really a blog?

The writer says:
To me, the real plus of a blog is that it is a “community” of sorts. On most of the blogs I read, there is the ability to leave a comment after the post. [...]


Fan Visits

It’s always great fun for me to read accounts of fans heading to the "mother ship". These two Volkswagen fans have documented their trip to the stunning new VW factory in Dresden, Germany. Check out the link - the photos are stunning.

But the community aspect here is impressive too. The only costs that were generated [...]


Blingo - a hit again

Blingo has once again proven to be a terrific project. The recently won, Blingo-delivered PSP was quite a hit when my brother opened it for his Christmas present.

They’ve also received some great press with this article in the Chicago Tribune. Great work to the Blingo folks!

I think my Blingo network is up to about [...]