Paul's Web Space 2.1

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Labels: blog, blogging, marketing, seo, socialmedia

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140-Character Book Review Contest

I fortuitously followed a tweet from Cool Cat Teacher about a contest to write book reviews within the 140-character limitation imposed by Twitter. The deadline is this Wednesday, July 26, and there are prizes.

Here are my two entries, plus one for a movie that's technically not eligible (you could say my review is of the comic book, but it's really not):

1984 - Winston Smith tastes freedom and steamy sex. Big Brother comes crashing in. Status quo: perpetual war on terror; same war, new enemy.

Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov plans and executes the "perfect crime." Guilt gnaws, he confesses, goes to jail, falls in love.

Iron Man - arrogant-jerk arms merchant Tony Stark: kidnapped by terrorists, turns peacenik, stomps baddies. He is Iron Man.

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   Link: http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/07/contest---140-c.html

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Paul's Web Space 2.1

There, I've gone and done it. I just released the latest version of my blog. I thought I was going to use the new Blogger templates for this, but then I discovered that these only work on blogspot.com hosted blogs, because of some dynamic code behind them; since I host my blog on my own web site on a friend's server (thanks Alec!), this technology isn't available to me.

No worries. My main goal was to enable labels or tags on my blog posts. I found code to display all the label links on the sidebar, and also fixed some settings so that the label pages would display properly from those links and the ones in posts. (Thanks, phydeaux3!) Then I added labels to all my posts from this year, so that the label pages would be more complete. Maybe I'll get them into the meta keywords eventually too.

While I was at it, I tweaked a few things that had been nagging me about the layout, linked headlines to posts, etc. I tried to add backlink code, but I think the settings screwed me up again; I'll take it out if it refuses to work for new posts too.

Finally, I figure that numbering this 2.1 will dispel any notion that I'm riding on Web 2.0 coattails. I hope you like the changes; either way, leave me a comment or blog about them (then I can see if backlinks will work going forward). Peace.

Labels: blog, design, redesign, tag

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Blogging for Net Neutrality

I recently signed up as a blogger for net neutrality with SaveTheInternet.com, so I might as well blog about it. I've long been a supporter of the concept, and signed CPSR on as a charter member of the coalition when it formed a couple years ago. Recently, People for Internet Responsibility has contributed a good technical foundation to the debate, offering a proposal to measure Internet traffic in order to settle debates on net neutrality, and creating a new discussion list covering technical issues, nn-squad.

Some recent developments: U2's manager Paul McGuinness wants ISPs to cut off file sharers, AT&T thinks file sharing is worse than child abuse or terrorism, and a major Canadian ISP tampers with packets to alter web pages delivered to its customers. These developments follow more infamous incidents like Comcast hindering Bittorrent, AT&T censoring anti-Bush lyrics at a Pearl Jam webcast, and Verizon blocked NARAL from using its SMS network to facilitate political organizing.

Stories such as these, combined with a strong bias toward freedom of expression and communication, lead me to my strong belief in the concept of net neutrality. Stay tuned, and consider attending Freedom to Connect in Silver Spring next month.

Labels: blog, blogging, freepress, netneutrality, savetheinternet

   Link: http://www.savetheinternet.com/

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