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  • Lots of spam blogs on Blogger

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    According to a WebMasterWorld study, 75% of blogs on Google’s Blogger are spam and 68% of all sites on the .info domain are spam as well. If true, that’s kind of depressing. Meanwhile, on WordPress.com we continue to shut down spam blogs as soon as we find them.

  • No more MacBook for me

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    Enough has gone wrong with my MacBook in the last few months that I doubt I’d ever buy another one. First I had random shut down problems. Then the built in webcam stopped working. Now I have a dead battery. All this within the first 9 months of owning it. The final straw: Apple told…

  • The new incubators seem to be working

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    Some of the most interesting new web projects seem to be coming out of a new breed of incubator. Obvious has released the widely heralded Twitter. Y Combinator has had several hits, including currently buzzed about companies like Scribd, Justin.TV and ImInLikeWithYou. Yahoo’s Brickhouse launched Pipes to great reviews. Another new incubator, Ooga Labs is…

  • Shawn’s day

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    Shawn has been blogging about his recovery from heart surgery. From his latest post on how he currently spends a typical day: “Once past the self-pity phase, I usually eat breakfast and surf the web for a while, wondering how I could become so quickly bored by the largest collection of knowledge in human history.”

  • One billion

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    Akismet made it past the one billion spam mark last night!

  • A commercial!

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    I’m not in the habit of linking to ads from my blog, but this one is pretty fun if you’re into car racing.

  • More VIPs

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    If our WordPress.com VIP hosting program is any indication, enterprise blogging is on an upswing. We’ve been getting a lot of interest in this program from corporate bloggers. Some recent VIPs include multiple blogs from CNN, Xerox and Carnival Cruise Lines. We also recently added famous baseball player Curt Schilling as a VIP blogger and…

  • Carver

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    Check out this interesting three wheeled car, they have videos, a WordPress blog and bbPress forums.

  • Hiring

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    Automattic is hiring.

  • Rinspeed concept car

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    AutoBlog: “Rinspeed seems to have a knack for coming up with wonderfully quirky answers to questions no one was really asking.”

  • Mail + IM

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    The Oddpost/Yahoo Mail Beta team strikes again – check out how seamlessly they’ve integrated IM into Yahoo Mail.

  • Digg this

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    Paul Kedrosky points out that WordPress.com has passed Digg on Alexa’s reach charts. Very cool! And Alexa doesn’t even count all of our traffic, only visits to blogs with wordpress.com in their URL (i.e. it doesn’t count WordPress.com blogs like Scobleizer or WebWorkerDaily that use their own domain names).

  • The Firefox computer

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    Jon Callaghan has some thoughts on how easy it was for him to switch from a PC to a Mac. This made me think about the Windows Vista launch and the inevitable OS X vs Vista comparisons, and how come I’m deeply uninterested in any of it. I run a PC at home and a…

  • Solar crossing

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    The Swiss catamaran Sun21 has become the first motorized boat to cross the Atlantic using no fuel (it’s solar powered).

  • Open Source vs. Open APIs

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    When I helped start the Yahoo Developer Network, part of my job was to go around to all the product teams inside Yahoo and convince them that it would be good for their business to open up free web APIs. The response among technical folks was pretty universally enthusiastic. It’s just one of those ideas…

  • Abandoned amusement park

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    I’m loving this series of pictures of nature reclaiming an abandoned amusement park (I think it’s in Japan).