Being BoingBoinged could kill your rep

Below you will find links to blogs that have killed sites they have linked back to.

Being popular can be a good thing if you are ready for it, if not your site will send 404 file not found errors or unable to connect to server errors or worse - NO ACCESS Sites bandwidth exceeded

If you get linked to one of these sites you need a good server, to know and check bandwidth limits for you web account and make sure your site is backed up if you can.

1. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things
2. Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
3. Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
4. MAKE: Blog
5. Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
6. Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog

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Bushs lying mouth pieces

I luv Froomkin, with Wass and Rich the only 3 real reporters in the whole of US mass media, he always makes me want to read all his 5 pages of story.

Today he put up a quote from Tony Snowman of the Bush empire and i had to post this..

Heres how it goes

Reporter asks question and is given standard Bush Administration reply.

"REPORTER: Tony, why do you . . . in your op-ed today you brought up the Clinton pardons, as well. Do two wrongs make a right? Is that the idea, like if Clinton did wrong . . . .

"SNOW: Well, this is . . . no, this is not a wrong, but I think what is interesting is perhaps it was just because he was on his way out, but while there was a small flurry, there was not much investigation of it."

1. Notice never answer the question directly...
Ummm...
Well its ...
But the....

2a. Reverse the question -
No this is not..
i think your trying to say...
perhaps it was just..

2b. Say Clinton did it too.....WTF

3. Finally finish with useless double talk
while there was a small flurry, there was not much investigation of it.

Perfect word play to bring total confusion. I dare you to try it with any of the Bush Army of mouth pieces.
They all follow this pattern and it makes telling the truth near impossible for them.
Sad..Very Sad

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Whats a SpamBlog

SPAMBLOG

Or just google it for background..........

Ok heres the rub. NO real answers have been given to me about this. And as i just received my second auto response with out any of my questions answered.

Google reply below

Hello,

As part of Blogger's ongoing efforts to combat spam blogs, we have an
automated spam classifying system that determines whether a blog is
potentially spam or not. Because this is automated there will necessarily
be some false positives, though we are continually working on improving
our system to avoid these. Having now been cleared for regular use,
however, your blog will no longer be subject to this classification, and
you should not run into any more problems.

For more information, please see Blogger Help:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1260

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

Yesterday i checked my blogs spam rating and searched for it in 2 different spamblog search sites it did not rate as spam. I have no more repeat tags or links then any other blogs.

The base used to set a blog a spam is not met by mine at all.

Without the answers to my questions from Google it seems --that if ANYONE decides your blog is spam, Blogger will add you to the spamblog list and let the spambot take care of it. No warning cause your a spam blog.

As google does not notify you if this happens someone being vengeful or angry that day could click the Flag this blog as spam button and force you to pay beat the Gotcha text for a week or 2 until you figure out the issue ( If you can ).

It happened to me.

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My Blog is Spam - LOL - Google hates me

FROM Blogger

Request Received

We have received your request for a review to verify that your blog is not a spam blog. Someone will look over your blog and respond to d..........@gmail.com

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

YAY Google/Blogger

First forced word verification to an already logged in member checking page layout EVERY time he changes his posts is NOT COOL - Once is enough.
NOT SPAM

Second a nervous condition causes me to shake all the time so i rarely get the verification text type right the first time. I know many with dyslexia an this would also cause a problem for them too.
NOT SPAM

Third - As my blog has near zero traffic and I am hand posting near all my blog entries HOW could I have gotten on the SPAMBLOG list in the first place.
WHY SPAM ???

More to follow i am sure.

Update1 -1:45 est - Been waiting for over an hour to hear anything from google/blogger. Except for the above reply which appeared on a temp web page and vanished,not a peep not even a under-review auto-reply message.
WTF

Update2 Blogger Help
4:03 pm (12 minutes ago)
Hello,

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that
it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and
sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your
patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team


to Blogger 4:23 pm (0 minutes ago)

Please advise me on the issue that caused my blog to be ID-ed as spam.

Saying you reviewed - verified and cleared does not cut it.

I would like to have the reason for the spam categorization,
what you Reviewed and
what are your standards for verification.

Thanks in advance
Joe D....

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They dont call it MicroSoftNBC for nothing

HEADLINE - Affair with iPhone cools when handset breaks
Sub heading - After four days with phone, trouble in paradise


Yet buried in the middle of the 5th graph is this

Sean said they’d simply swap my phone for another, and after some help from two guys named Chris at the Genius Bar, they took back the broken one and I left with the new iPhone.

Then the last paragraph 18 graphs down from the headline is

As for the iPhone I was given to replace the little hottie, the new one is much cooler to the touch when plugged in and in use, and therefore, so am I.

DOH - SO the big news is if your iphone is broken out of the box apple will give or send you a new one. WOW
How is that Trouble in paradise???
Based on the authors last sentence how is the affair cooled.

This is noxious reporting and corporate editing at its finest.

Just as they do with stories about the democratic presidential candidates - Spin lies and half truths for the first half to 2/3rds of a story , then maybe stick the real truth under that using offhanded english just in case someone has read that far.

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Microsoft at it again - Xbox Red Ring Of Death

reading my game blogs and slash dot i have noticed many more complaints about the D and DOA status of Xbox360s. Heres some link to news on this


Pressure Mounts On Xbox Red Ring Of Death Admission: Details Here - News at SPOnG.com



DailyTech - Console Service Center Refuses to Repair Xbox 360 RROD



Game On Micromart to Microsoft: Take a Hike, Xbox 360

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Secure document watch

Crooks And Liars : Rove, etc.......

Just how close did Karl Rove come to being indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald? Surprisingly close.

The AP reported that several interesting documents related to the Plame leak investigation were unsealed late on Friday, and among the revelations are insights on Fitzgerald targeting Rove.

Firedoglake - Just Do it
Firedoglake weblog » And Now For Some Action…

via Christy - So, you can sit around grousing and moaning until the cows come home, wallowing in your misery and cursing the heavens about George Bush. Or…you can do something about him and his corrupt Grand Ole Imperial Party.

I’ll take fighting back for $1000, Alex

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall July 2, 2007 05:56 PM

Josh says- Now, here's the key to this.

There is a conceivable argument --- a very poor one but a conceivable one --- for pardoning Scooter Libby, presumably on the argument that the entire prosecution was political and thus illegitimate.

But what conceivable argument does the president have for micromanaging the sentence? To decide that the conviction is appropriate, that probation is appropriate, that a substantial fine is appropriate --- just no prison sentence.

Kung Fu Monkey: L33T Justice

The commutation, rather than being some canny half-measure some are calling it, is actually worse than a pardon. The President's saying "Fine, fine, I agree a jury of his peers found him guilty of multiple counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, but I don't think he should be punished for that." He's not even saying that he believes Scooter's innocent. He just doesn't think people like Scooter should have to suffer just because!!

What? What's that from the trolls? "Oh, but no, he'll be punished! He just won't do any jail time! He still has to pay the fine ..."

Daily Kos: Just sayin'

The following is from a report written and released by the Judiciary Committee in 1974 in the aftermath of the Watergate crisis.

In the [Constitutional] convention George Mason argued that the President might use his pardoning power to "pardon crimes which were advised by himself" or, before indictment or conviction, "to stop inquiry and prevent detection." James Madison responded:

[I]f the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds [to] believe he will shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty..

Dan Froomkin - Obstruction of Justice, Continued - washingtonpost.com

During the course of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's trial for obstruction of justice and perjury, we learned a lot about his bosses.

Incremental discoveries that didn't garner major headlines nevertheless added to what we know -- and can reasonably surmise -- about Vice President Cheney and President Bush's role in the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity, which was revealed during the course of the administration's defense of its decision to go to war in Iraq

The Gavel » Blog Archive » Chairwoman Slaughter on President Bush’s Decision to Commute

Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter released the following statement in response to President Bush’s commutation of Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s prison sentence today:

“The President has claimed Mr. Libby’s sentence was excessive. But the only excessive actions taken were those of the Administration as it sought to exact retribution against a critic. As I learned personally from the testimony of former CIA agents, its actions were unconscionable.

Crooks and Liars » Tony Snow’s Libby Presser: A web of lies

I’m making two video clips because there is so much deceit in everything Snow says that I wanted you to see most of it. What was up with that creepy black background? Was it the cameras or was it staged that way?
Look at this…A new SurveyUSA poll says that America wants Scooter in jail…Repeat after me: Obstruction of Justice!

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This all stems from VPs poor handling of secret information.

The Democrats should be cheering Bush .. we agree with the president that Libby was guilty of covering up for Chaneys office. This is even more reason he should turn over documents to the congressional committee

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MTV News WE smear it First-

The main stream media just repeats its corporate parents positions. No news, just biased one sided dis-information.

-MTVs Kurt Loder  does hit piece on Michael Moore
via Crooksandliars.com


Again using MTV to lie to us.
Shame Viacom Shame

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Oh Dear we need more fear

Vice president runs the country through the hiding of documents.The presidents top aid practicing his hobby of minority voter suppression AND knowingly destroying historical records on a regular basis. Bush with the help of the -Not Patriot Act- and ATT has been going on a wild goose chase through our private conversations in search of terror.

So whats the NEWS for a weekend where reports are of the most US deaths months?


In one REPORT on the London bombing attempts the ugly mouth piece thats andrea mitchell said al qeida over 9 times even though they have not identified the exact terror group.

Failed to mention that Ben Ladin has been on the Afghanistan Pakistan border from the 1990s and car bombs have been a staple of the anti-isreal movement for years

No matter the bogus cry of -fight them there so they dont come here- we have known the bad guys have been and are here.

I feel not safer today then i did last week or last year or before 9-11.

UPDATE
BRITS see the BS too!!!
The Daily Dish -
Staying Calm and Carrying On

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5 dead a day is not ok

5 more soldiers died yesterday as Bush Joked with the Russian minister.

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