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My blog guru, vegankid, has updated my wordpress to the latest version so I am spending a bit of time this week tweaking and adding useful plugins. This is what I’ve done so far…
I have reinstalled Gravatar. This puts a small icon beside your comments if you have one. If you don’t have one and [...]
I am always on the look out for new blogs of interest and suggestions are always welcome.
I am sure there are people that really should be on my blogroll that I am missing.
Send me your links. Point me to your own blog (please don’t be shy). Show off your friends blog. I am open to [...]
My blog made the Electronic Village’s Top 100 list of Black Bloggers this month (number 93). And I have the company of some of my favorite bloggers…
My Private Casbah (84)
Slant Truth (87)
Black Looks (37)
and of course, Pam’s House Blend (2)
This rating doesn’t last long because it’s based on your Technorati authority which varies wildly [...]
I added Google Translate to the sidebar (for some strange reason it keeps appearing in different places) and I was wondering how accurate it is. Obviously, an automated translating widget thingy is not going to be 100% but I looked at a couple of posts translated into Greek and it certainly seems better than others [...]
From Spero News
The government is poised to bolster the legal framework surrounding blogs after an investigation was launched regarding the alleged blackmail of journalists by colleagues through the popular blogspot press-gr.
Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos confirmed that the justice ministry is working on amending an existing law (#1187) that grants people the right to press charges [...]
Please read and digest my updated comment policy. Any suggestions/corrections are very welcome.
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One of the most interesting articles I have read at Kathimerini for a very long time…
The debasement of public discourse
By P. Mandravelis
Nothing is strange about the fact that a handful of people spread gossip and rumor via the press-gr blog. What is strange is how many people took this blog seriously. There are good blogs [...]
Diagoras has posted the press release from DIGITALRIGHTS and freebloggers which covers the recent furore about the press.gr blog and proposed changes in the law on anonymous blogging. It includes a long list of bloggers who are posting the release on their blogs. The press release is in Greek but I will post the English [...]
Here are two more articles about the blog that has triggered controversy about anonymous blogging in Greece.
From Kathimerini
Authorities are broadening their investigation into the press-gr news blog after indications the site was being supplied with information from someone using a computer inside Parliament.
Authorities are continuing to look into the blog spot after journalist Andreas Kapsampelis, [...]
Greek Bloggers, Lawsuits and the Future
16 Comments Published by deviousdiva February 26th, 2008 in Blogging.Don’t Kiss The Frog has an extremely interesting (and rather worrying) post up about Greek bloggers and new laws which are being drawn up.
according to the Eleftheros Typos newspaper, the government has already prepared legislation to deal with the issue of bloggers gone wild. The new law will treat informational(sic) blogs like newspapers. The name [...]
I have been thinking long and hard about what I should do about comments on this blog and I have reached a decision that I am happy with for now. The policy I have come up with is in four parts:
ONE:
People commenting for the first time will need approval from me before their comment will [...]
Gosh !
One day I might be an adorable rodent…
Technorati: truth laid bear, statistics, blog, blogging, ratings
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Well, there’s this that makes me laugh
My blog is worth $38,953.26.How much is your blog worth?
And this makes me proud
Most users online 77 !
Top Black blogger… number 82 ! Wow !
Thank you all.
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I would love it if you would take time to look in the sidebar below “Recent Comments” and take my poll. I would like to make THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY better for all of you. Thank you.
UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who has already voted in this poll. I will be looking at your [...]
Many many thanks vegankid, for fixing the rest of my blog. I won’t link to your blog at the moment because it looks like it’s been hacked ? That’s horrible. You spend so much time helping others with all this stuff. I hope you can retrieve your domain as soon as possible. I can’t understand [...]
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