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Archive for September, 2006

The Pain of Splogs

Posted: Sunday, September 10th, 2006 @ 9:13 pm in Technology | No Comments »

In her Massage and Bodywork Journal Blog, Julie Onofrio was complaining last August about ad farms that lift her content. I’ve had that happen too. A couple of months back I’d tracked down a set of interacting domains that were hijacking content and sent the information to Technorati, since they were indexing these fake blogs. [...]

Building Community

Posted: Saturday, September 9th, 2006 @ 10:46 pm in Community | No Comments »

In browsing around, I came across three authors, interlinked with each other, all working on processes of building community and creating change. I first ran into Juanita Brown and the World Cafés by finding her book while browsing around Amazon. The initiative literally developed after a meeting on a very rainy day in Marin, during [...]