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[30 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

According to Yahoo, over 1,000 sites have linked to Go Make Something as of this morning. Yay! Links are a wonderful way of sharing sites with other like-minded folks.
Sadly, the majority of the links posted to this site don’t actually give the correct site name—and that’s true of all my sites. Very often, while the [...]

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[15 Nov 2008 | 17 Comments | ]

Comments are a wonderful thing. They give a blogger feedback on what they’ve written, and let them know that they’re not alone on the Internet. Writing is a lonely thing when you can’t tell if anyone is reading your words.
As I’m writing this, Go Make Something has over 1,600 approved comments posted by users. Like [...]

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[14 Nov 2008 | 13 Comments | ]

I visit a lot of blogs in the course of my work week, whether it’s checking pages that have linked to my various sites, reading articles that friends have suggested, looking at the artwork done for the various challenges, or just random surfing.
One of the most annoying things I encounter is blogs that have added [...]

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[13 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

This week, I’ve found quite a few links to Go Make Something in blog posts that contain finished project images from this site. That’s a big no-no.
Under the terms of use, reposting any content from Go Make Something is prohibited. Capturing images, uploading them to your blog and using them as eye candy is also [...]

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[12 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

I’ve been writing on the Internet since 1996. That’s a long time by blogging standards!
Over the course of moving from site to site, and changing from static HTML pages to Greymatter to blogging with WordPress, some things haven’t changed. There are certain basic ideas that used to be called nettiquette that haven’t changed in all [...]