Domain takedowns: With law-enforcement recently taking down domains that they assert are engaged in peer-to-peer sharing [1. …and they certainly may be doing illegal peer-to-peer sharing among other things, I don’t argue that.] and with UK agencies perhaps looking for the power to seize domains [2. in a proposal from Nominet, which is registrar for the .uk top-level domain.] associated with criminal activity, I see some possible parallels. First, note that all that might be required for takedowns is a request from law-enforcement, and that the domain owner doesn’t necessarily know why the domain is down—it just is taken down. But wait—I see parallels elsewhere… [Read more…]
Archives for November 2010
Hello, Are you still blogging?
I cleaned out my news reader subscriptions this morning[1. I use NetNewsWire on my Mac PowerBook and Reeder on my iPad, with the data being coordinated through Google Reader online] and found that of about 30 blogs I dropped, most of them hadn’t been updated in over a year, or even since 2006 in a couple of cases. Are people getting tired of blogging? (For that matter, are people getting tired of tweeting? I hardly ever do it any more…) To lay a motivational foundation, I was cleaning out my subscriptions because I now read them on an iPad and it has been taking me nearly a couple of hours a day to read them, so I needed to cut a lot of duplicates—seeing the same information several places, in blogs that are just “repeaters.”
Ten reasons my buddies might have quit blogging (remember, I call blog posts “articles”):
- Too much time goes into writing a single article
- email inbox is over 1,000 and need to catch up
- too busy reading other blogs
- watching video more than ever – still haven’t seen all the TED videos
- iPad doesn’t provide an easy way to write for the blog (get a keyboard!)
- 400 podcasts stacked up and no longer commute to work so I can’t get through the backlog
- don’t have anything original to say and got tired of repeating what others were saying
- started tweeting and then I didn’t even have enough time for tweeting
- quit blogging for {pick one} summer/trip/vacation/religiousholiday and just never got the energy to start again
- got a real job. (Whatever that is…)
Hmmm…the balance to be struck is between consuming and producing, I think. And consuming is far easier than producing.