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Big Bill <bill (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On 27 Nov 2007 17:48:08 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[..]

Also, I could score all people I know very high, and "kill"
the rest :-D.

There's a couple of new guys that seem ok.

If they're not using gg I might whitelist them

That Mark still didn't
paint my kitchen, though, so he can go.

Mark who?

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On 27 Nov 2007 20:48:48 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 27 Nov 2007 17:48:08 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Hey, I am back :-D.

Good to see you back, John.

Thanks Paul, I missed some people from here ;-)

Not many of the old bunch around these days.

Also I thought I would blog more without Usenet.

Oh no, you haven't become a blogger, have you ? <G>

Sadly not, so yesterday I paid for a year of Usenet :-D.

Good move

Also, I could score all people I know very high, and "kill"
the rest :-D.

Bet my f/k folder is bigger than yours <G

No doubt about that. Most of the time my kill list has 0 entries. Only in
the past 2 years or so I have been adding people to it. When I started
xnews a majority of posts in this group all came from gg accounts and
consisted of spam. Now I have Usenet back, I don't want to waste time on
Google's crappy Usenet gateway.

Bloody GG posters are the bane of Usenet. And I will never use their
gateway.

plh
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The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 27 Nov 2007 20:48:48 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[..]

Thanks Paul, I missed some people from here ;-)

Not many of the old bunch around these days.

Heh, wait until they hear I am back ;-)

Also I thought I would blog more without Usenet.

Oh no, you haven't become a blogger, have you ? <G

You've never been on my site? Personally I think I am a born blogger for
lack of a better expression). Mind: not a born writer, but as a kid my
parents never had to ask how my day at school was, I just told them.

When I bought my first digital camera, back in '98 I wanted to make
series of photos and write a story to go with those on a web site. What
now probably would be called a blog with photowalks. It stayed mostly a
plan - I did upload some photos of a vacation in Sri Lanka, but never
wrote about every day in full - until the end of 2000. Back then I moved
to NZ, and wanted to keep my family up to date. So I started an online
diary (Dutch), with photos It covered only a few days or so, but it was
another attempt at blogging.

As some know, a lot went wrong in NZ, and I got back to the Netherlands
in 2003. In July I did another attempt at blogging:
http://johnbokma.com/weblog.html

In 2004 I went to Mexico to live with a girl (Esme) I had met online. We
had been chatting for over 4 months, and wanted to test if the online
relation could survive in the "real world". Mexico has so much to write
about (for me that is), that I had plans to continue with my 2003
weblog. And when Esme got stung by a scorpion, MexIT was born.


As you see, I like to talk about myself, and stuff that interests me.
Have been doing that on Usenet for quite some time now. One can think of
Usenet as a kind of blog as well. The first post is the blog entry, and
the stuff that dangles below it are the comments.

Nowadays there are two things wrong with blogs: people who think that
everybody needs one, and people who hate on them. The latter group often
claims that nobody is interested in the opinion of a bunch of losers,
and often express that sentiment in online forums, and comment systems
of big social sites like digg.

Anyway, to me there is nothing wrong with being a blogger. Not long ago
you could replace blog with website in the former paragraph. And a bit
further in the past: computer.

Sadly not, so yesterday I paid for a year of Usenet :-D.

Good move

Yeah, I think I do need peers as social contacts :-)

[ Google ]

Bloody GG posters are the bane of Usenet. And I will never use their
gateway.

I only if I have to and there is no other way.

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On 28 Nov 2007 01:24:57 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Big Bill <bill (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On 27 Nov 2007 17:48:08 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[..]

Also, I could score all people I know very high, and "kill"
the rest :-D.

There's a couple of new guys that seem ok.

If they're not using gg I might whitelist them

That Mark still didn't
paint my kitchen, though, so he can go.

Mark who?

Mark that's always been around. The jewellery guy.

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Big Bill <bill (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

On 28 Nov 2007 01:24:57 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[..]

Mark who?

Mark that's always been around. The jewellery guy.

Ah, I know another Mark from here IIRC, not in jewellery AFAIK :-)

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On 28 Nov 2007 17:15:05 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Thanks Paul, I missed some people from here ;-)

Not many of the old bunch around these days.

Heh, wait until they hear I am back ;-)

yeah, they'll all leave LOL

Also I thought I would blog more without Usenet.

Oh no, you haven't become a blogger, have you ? <G

You've never been on my site?

I probably have some time back.

Personally I think I am a born blogger for lack of a better expression). Mind: not a born writer, but as a kid my
parents never had to ask how my day at school was, I just told them.

When I bought my first digital camera, back in '98 I wanted to make
series of photos and write a story to go with those on a web site. What
now probably would be called a blog with photowalks. It stayed mostly a
plan - I did upload some photos of a vacation in Sri Lanka, but never
wrote about every day in full - until the end of 2000. Back then I moved
to NZ, and wanted to keep my family up to date. So I started an online
diary (Dutch), with photos It covered only a few days or so, but it was
another attempt at blogging.

As some know, a lot went wrong in NZ, and I got back to the Netherlands
in 2003. In July I did another attempt at blogging:
http://johnbokma.com/weblog.html

The site looks familiar

[...]

Nowadays there are two things wrong with blogs: people who think that
everybody needs one, and people who hate on them. The latter group often
claims that nobody is interested in the opinion of a bunch of losers,
and often express that sentiment in online forums, and comment systems
of big social sites like digg.

I wish they were not invented.
I personally don't like them because most are scraped content from
other sites, hotlinking etc.
And others are boring to read. Even Matt Cutts blog is getting boring.

Sadly, I am on a blog, right under another entry about GW Bush. :/
AND with his pic ~yuck~

Anyway, to me there is nothing wrong with being a blogger. Not long ago
you could replace blog with website in the former paragraph. And a bit
further in the past: computer.

Yours is one of the few that isn't scraped and DOES have a topic.

Sadly not, so yesterday I paid for a year of Usenet :-D.

Good move

Yeah, I think I do need peers as social contacts :-)

[ Google ]
Bloody GG posters are the bane of Usenet. And I will never use their
gateway.

I only if I have to and there is no other way.

I wouldn't and didn't, even though there was a time I couldn't afford
my normal usenet account. You couldn't pay me to use it

Take care
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The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 28 Nov 2007 17:15:05 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[Blogs ]

I wish they were not invented.
I personally don't like them because most are scraped content from
other sites, hotlinking etc.

There are plenty of non-blogs that suffer from the same issue, especially
when blogs were less known. Forums do also a lot of hotlinking. So it
sounds to me that you don't like the abuse, and I agree.

And others are boring to read. Even Matt Cutts blog is getting boring.

Ha ha ha, I consider my own blog boring to read as well. Has a bit to do
with English not being my native language. And a combination of me being
too formal on my blog, and not taking enough time to be funny.

It also could be that you just don't like to read blogs. I only read blogs
when I need the information. I know several very nice blogs, but I rarely
read them, I get bored easily, even if the content is funny. Maybe also
because to me computer is mosly work and I feel guilty when I do other
stuff (on the other hand... *posts soms more on Usenet*)

[..]

Anyway, to me there is nothing wrong with being a blogger. Not long
ago you could replace blog with website in the former paragraph. And a
bit further in the past: computer.

Yours is one of the few that isn't scraped and DOES have a topic.

Thanks. The topic seems to be "Everything but the kitchen sink" (Hi
Stacey). Some time ago I considered to break it up in 2 (or even 3) sites.
But that would mean even more work.

Talking about scraping: I know someone who does that and after a few
months makes with a handful of copy-paste blogs more money a month (close
to twice as much) than I do with genuine content. As long as stealing is
rewarded in such a way, ad revenue will drop, and copy-paste blogging will
grow.

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On 29 Nov 2007 16:06:12 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 28 Nov 2007 17:15:05 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

[Blogs ]

I wish they were not invented.
I personally don't like them because most are scraped content from
other sites, hotlinking etc.

There are plenty of non-blogs that suffer from the same issue, especially
when blogs were less known. Forums do also a lot of hotlinking. So it
sounds to me that you don't like the abuse, and I agree.

Partly that, but a lot to do with "what IS this site about" as many
flit from one thing to another. Plus, many look the same, and that
alone gets boring.

And others are boring to read. Even Matt Cutts blog is getting boring.

Ha ha ha, I consider my own blog boring to read as well. Has a bit to do
with English not being my native language. And a combination of me being
too formal on my blog, and not taking enough time to be funny.

With Matts, it was good when it was SEO. But now it's gadgets et all.

It also could be that you just don't like to read blogs.

If the subject interested me, and if it was the one subject. But a lot
of blogs are nothing but scraped content.

I only read blogs when I need the information.

Same here

I know several very nice blogs, but I rarely read them, I get bored easily, even if the content is funny. Maybe also
because to me computer is mosly work and I feel guilty when I do other stuff (on the other hand... *posts soms more on Usenet*)

<g>

[..]

Talking about scraping: I know someone who does that and after a few
months makes with a handful of copy-paste blogs more money a month (close
to twice as much) than I do with genuine content. As long as stealing is
rewarded in such a way, ad revenue will drop, and copy-paste blogging will
grow.

I hope he manages to sleep well at night. We all want to earn money,
but not doing it that way.

Take care
plh
Paul

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The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 29 Nov 2007 16:06:12 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

The Gobbling Goblin <customerservices (AT) houstoncrafts (DOT) com> wrote:

On 28 Nov 2007 17:15:05 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com
wrote:

[Blogs ]

I wish they were not invented.
I personally don't like them because most are scraped content from
other sites, hotlinking etc.

There are plenty of non-blogs that suffer from the same issue,
especially when blogs were less known. Forums do also a lot of
hotlinking. So it sounds to me that you don't like the abuse, and I
agree.

Partly that, but a lot to do with "what IS this site about" as many
flit from one thing to another. Plus, many look the same, and that
alone gets boring.

Back in the late 90's a lot of non-blog sites looked the same as well,
especially when hosted with geocities/tripod, etc. Most people are no
designers, and hence rely on templates. Most people are not savvy enough
to install new templates and hence are limited to what comes with the
blogging (or CMS) software.

And others are boring to read. Even Matt Cutts blog is getting
boring.

Ha ha ha, I consider my own blog boring to read as well. Has a bit to
do with English not being my native language. And a combination of me
being too formal on my blog, and not taking enough time to be funny.

With Matts, it was good when it was SEO. But now it's gadgets et all.

Maybe because it makes more money? I have no idea. However, I have
discovered dat my AdSense income dropped with almost 50% over the past
months due to several factors, including (and probably the most
signficant factor) that Google seems to pay less.

It also could be that you just don't like to read blogs.

If the subject interested me, and if it was the one subject. But a lot
of blogs are nothing but scraped content.

Yup, like in the past a lot of sites were generated content/scraped
content with banners.

I only read blogs when I need the information.

Same here

Yup, and in my case Google is often able to find this information. To be
honest I prefer a blog / message board because it has sometimes very
useful additional comments, or even corrections.

Talking about scraping: I know someone who does that and after a few
months makes with a handful of copy-paste blogs more money a month
(close to twice as much) than I do with genuine content. As long as
stealing is rewarded in such a way, ad revenue will drop, and
copy-paste blogging will grow.

I hope he manages to sleep well at night. We all want to earn money,
but not doing it that way.

People who do stuff like that often can reason to themselves why it's ok
to do so.

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On 30 Nov 2007 04:19:23 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Maybe because it makes more money? I have no idea. However, I have
discovered dat my AdSense income dropped with almost 50% over the past
months due to several factors, including (and probably the most
signficant factor) that Google seems to pay less.

Don't know if you are aware John, but adsense have also changed
*where* you click on an advert now.

plh
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