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Comment on How many use real radio now? by Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:31:14 +0000

There seems to be a never ending effort by these so called Interenet Police who tries to control what is essentialy uncrontrollable. There approach to this emerging technology is actions of fear that their traditional business model is under threat. I enjoyed reading your blogs.

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Comment on Censorship, now a death threat – this is Australia? by Pam Rosengren

Pam Rosengren — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:17:55 +0000

As I noted on Sean’s blog, we actually now have two pieces of evidence of political speech being blocked. This one, which is an attempt to silence ‘libertarian’ views, and another http://tinyurl.com/dneh3z which shows the blacklist blocking freedom of speech for the Christian Right.

Comment on Censorship, now a death threat – this is Australia? by ISP and Death Threats from the Christian Right | Sean the Blogonaut

ISP and Death Threats from the Christian Right | Sean the Blogonaut — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:07:49 +0000

[...] is worth noting, as does Pam Rosengren, that this incident illustrates that while Filtering proponents may claim otherwise, freedom of [...]

Comment on Censorship, now a death threat – this is Australia? by Websinthe

Websinthe — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:14:00 +0000

That’s a good point and, honestly, one I hadn’t thought of. You are right though, if this wasn’t about freedom of political speech before, it is now.

That being said, I can’t see anyone in the ACL publically backing some lunatic with a Payphone.

Comment on I gained a lot from focussing the blog, but… by Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:04:58 +0000

I like that image, reversing the direction of the arrows. Next time I think my attention is getting dissipated I’ll just assure myself that I am drawing many different interests to myself and focussing on them in a new and original way!

Comment on I gained a lot from focussing the blog, but… by Rebelling against personal branding « I don’t know what I’m going to do…

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:30:38 +0000

[...] decided to move from that focus, and explained why. It would be possible to read that post either way, as a further exploration of how to arrive at a [...]

Comment on Chris Abani at the Brisbane Writer’s Festival | and Video on TED.com by Pam Rosengren

Pam Rosengren — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:27:11 +0000

TED has changed their video player, and although it says I should click through to embed the new player in my blog there is no information about it that is readily accessible. I suggest that any readers simply search TED if they want to view this. Pity.

Comment on something I found on TED.com by Pam Rosengren

Pam Rosengren — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:26:34 +0000

Comment on I denied being a goth when my friend asked, but by Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:35:23 +0000

Nice to see that someone likes my photo !

Comment on Interactive shoot-em-up news broadcasts? by Pam Rosengren

Pam Rosengren — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:56:29 +0000

Today I received a comment about this post.

It simply said “i would like to know how to broadcast to all the blogs on the internet” and “thank you”.

That would be blog spam, and nobody likes spam. To do it you would need software known as a spambot, and you would need a good one because blog hosts such as WordPress all use software which combats spam. So really, what you want to do would be impossible. The web isn’t a broadcast medium like radio or TV.

Blog owners, such as myself, use settings which control who can post to their blog. Your post was automatically held for moderation because it was the first time you have posted here. I am not going to approve it, in case you are a spammer trying to get past my settings.

I chose not to flag your post as spam, however, because I searched your name and I realise that you may be reaching out from a penitentiary somewhere. (I found it on a web site that requests penpals for inmates.)

Marvin this is not the way to do it. It takes time to develop a genuine presence on the web, to develop skills in searching and communicating, to find where you belong, and for the right audience to find you.

If any of you have been posting like this to lots of blogs, and if the blog owners have flagged your posts as spam, then all future posts you make might go straight into the spam. That could affect future posts from anyone where you are. If it looks like this is happening, let your IT administrators know and they may be able to change the IP address that your internet connection has.

I haven’t blocked you Marvin, so ask me something again if you need to. Below this comment would be the best place.