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Where is it? Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm in the new Podshow site, trying to grab the MP3 file for the new Gillmor Gang episode, and I can't find it. I keep going around in circles. It has to be in there somewhere, doesn't it? I love Expression Engine It makes me feel like a wild kid with permissive parents. I can do whatever I want. I don't really know what it would be like to use it for a personal blog. I mostly make newsletters with it. Huh Funny I didn't notice it until just this minute, but the BlogHer periwinkle blue is very cornflowery, too. I wonder if I was influenced by it, along with my roadside weeds, and didn't realize it. Their yellower green probably is more directly across the color wheel than my green, but I'm content with my choice, just like Dave. Are you content with your choices today? This week, this year, this life? I hope so. Aw... Dave sounds content. That's nice. Update !!
!! (This was on my mind all day; I'm too tired of thinking about it to tell you what happened.) Not so cut-and-dried as I reported Help me work something out here. I went into Gracie mode last week in talking about this blog set up to cover the upcoming BlogHer Conference, calling it a splog and 9 kinds of pond scum. I also snuck in an opinion about internet marketers who don't see themselves as engaging in unethical practices versus those who know very well what they are doing. I could have been wrong about all those things, and I'm willing to backtrack, but I'd really like some outside opinions. I heard from the guy who made the blog in e-mail today. I've asked his permission to publish the e-mail, and haven't heard back yet, so I won't quote him, I'll just restate a couple of points. He wants an apology and retraction because he says a splog is a blog that steals content from other sites and he isn't doing that with the BlogHer Blog. OK, if that's what the definition of a splog is, then he's right. But is he right to be doing this -- using the BlogHer logo... calling the site The BlogHer Blog... making no links to the real BlogHer site (that I could see), and plastering the page with ads and links to his other sites.
He tells me in e-mail that he set up the blog so his wife has a place to cover BlogHer, but I don't get why she can't cover it on her own blog like all the other bloggers there. They'll be trying to get noticed, too, because that's what bloggers do. But nearly all the rest of them will seek to draw attention to their work by saying something worth hearing, not through "optimizing." The guy seems to do some other valuable things in the online world, so I can see why he wants to take care of his reputation and didn't like to see the way I characterized all this. Help me see things differently if you think I'm wrong but it just doesn't feel ethical to me. Maybe we can help him see things from a different angle, too. Maybe we can all learn something about right things to do. Seriously, I'd like to hear what others think. Lots of times when things get reduced to a diatribe, humans go into personal combat mode and everybody loses perspective. Answer the poll:
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