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Should Bloggers Know XHTML & CSS? ask Nick of Performancing.com? The answer is: They should not have to.

However
I did notice that cutting and pasting from articles or posts on the web
into a rich text editor can be quite challenging and can possibly
produce a lot of garbage HTML. My current solution: I try to remember
to paste the text into a pure text editor and re-copy it from there
before actually pasting it into the rich text editor of the blog.

By
no means a perfect solution, but it seems to work fine in most cases
for now. In the future the Blogging System/CMS should take care of
these formatting issues.

James is going on a Feed Diet (WarpJam). A great idea. He started out by reducing the amount of feeds he subscribes to to 15 and then added a couple of new blogs that he had not been reading before in order to broaden his mind.

I recently started using Google Reader, and I do notice that I barely make it through the new articles in a day. So a Feed Diet might indeed be what the Doctor ordered, after all I also see quite a bit of redundant information in my feeds.

By the way I just meet with James the other night, and you should keep an eye on his company Names@Work. They are up to no good many good things.

I tried today to sign up for an account with digg.com and world66.com. The problem? I never got the confirmation emails.

Since I have access to the mailserver logfiles, here’s one of the corresponding entries:

We
try to reduce the amount of spam for the users of our non-profit box.
One of the things we do, is to make sure that the sender address
actually is likely to exist. So please, make sure it does exist, if you
want us (and many other people employing this method) to receive your
mail. Hey, nobody said it needs to be a real account or someone needs
to read the mail there. Simply pipe it to /dev/null, but do set the
address up. Thanks.

[Update: Digg activated my account manually after I emailed them]
 

Now this is why I love the Internet, and I am very impressed by who seems to have now embraced the age of the participation web: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has set up a Wiki on JotSpot for their The Peer to Patent Project. Maybe this is the first step in the much needed review of our patent laws, as the project is supposed to enable Community Peer reviews of Patents.

I recently came across Riya, a new online photo service.

Basically this is a service where you upload your pictures and identify
people in the pictures. The system will then also be able to identify
the same people on other pictures. Sounds like something Flickr should
be adding.

The part that I am not so sure about here is the privacy. Making all of
this information publicly available is certainly a concern – just think
about all the places that would love to license and have access to this
information in order to identify people.

I have recently started a new blog, which I would still consider in
Beta Status. You will see fewer posts on domain name related issues
here, since those are being moved to the “Domain Editorial“, which is located at http://www.domaineditorial.com/ .

If I had a newspaper, my website would be a blog. And since some people
still like to get the printed word, my printed paper would be generated
from the blog at a certain time and then go to the presses. If I had a
magazine, it would be the same – just that it gets printed once a month.

I would probably have more content, and more interaction with my
readers. This would mean a shift in the way the authors work, but it
would also enrich my publication and probably make it more objective.

My publication would attract more readers from all over the world, and
different types of advertisers. There would be advertising on the site,
related to the articles it surrounds where possible. My advertisers
could better track the results of their advertising, and since the ads
are better target, they would achieve better results.

If I had a certain size of online readership, I could even consider
charging for subscriptions to some of the sections of the site.

But then again, if I was a publisher of a newspaper or a magazine I
would probably not be able to relate to any of this. I might be out of
business before putting any of this into action, but in any case it
will take me years to realize that I should focus on the online
presence of my paper.

If I ran a radio station, my website would have a blog. I would offer
PodCasts of my shows. I would offer songs for download against a small
fee.

If I ran a TV station, my website would have a blog. Where legally
possible I would offer VideoCasts of my shows. Where possible I would
charge a small fee for those downloads.

(This is something I have thought about before, but this specific post was inspired by Bucko. Thanks!)

Moody’s Corporation Acquires Economy.com not just the domain though:

Quote:

The December issue of Business 2.0 features an article about the Master$ of their Domain$ by Paul Sloan. A great piece and well worth the read. As Peter Ejtel already hinted in his blog, the publicity of recent sales was only the start. There also was an article in the Wall Street Journal, entitled “Thanks to web ads, some find new money in Domain Names“.

The article overall is written in an entertaining and positive style,
so it should help to promote the industry. However we probably don’t
have to wait a long time to see more articles, some of them probably
not this positive. All in all a great start for the big wave of
publicity that this industry is going to receive. Maybe even I can find
the time to write an article.

Some exerpts:

[...]

[...]

Besides some of the more or less well known domainers, the UltSearch
portfolio sale, the “factcheck.com” story, the article also features an
investor in this industry, one of the founders of Internet REIT (Internet Real Estate), also featured in the Wall Street Journal article.

[...]

Very good timing, considering Rick Schwartz has just announced his preliminary schedule for the Silicon Valley TRAFFIC conference.

After singing into AOL IM, I got the following message from them:

After trying to chat with the movie bot for a bit I realized that it
was not a human… hehe, no I meant I realized that that it is only
targeting US users. Other than that it’s pretty much a standard bot, I
just found it very interesting that AOL would start using those.