Quickies: Wikipedia doesn’t know what to do with us

Scoble saves the world from Google’s aliens in the flickr’d comic Google Park. +1 for the fish finder; -1 for omitting a Jurassic Park gag.

Another blogger in the NYT Op-Ed: Jeremy Blachman, former anonyblogger, argues that employers can fire you just for blogging, because they can fire you for just about anything. But legal protection would save companies from themselves; allowing employee blogs won’t hurt employers as much as employers fear.

I have no idea why Blogcompare used our list, but if you use the right-column form here, you can look at a souped-up A/B/C-list. They wagered that we’d ignore any possible copyright violation (according to my IP law professor, we could sue for thirty bucks) after we caught a wave of inbound links. They wagered right. Also, I like their cartoon style.

Joho explains RawSugar, the hierarchical del.icio.us. It’s not much prettier than its colleague, but maybe when it comes out of beta (Ha ha! Silly man! Things do not come out of beta!) we’ll see new and exciting features.

You know faddy, I know faddy. In Japan, says Joi Ito, your current fad is your boom.

Personal blog Lost in Translation is underrated. How can a blogger this sweet only get a dozen views a day?

I sparked a conversation by posting in Blogebrity’s Wikipedia discussion page; looks like we might get deleted if you don’t read us five times a day. And then comment. And then browse the list. And then complain about it.

Libelous Claims About Large Corporations is a blogspot blog that does what it says. [via Mefi]

BoingBoing’s gun-jumping “blacks loot, whites find” piece, in which a flickr user juxtaposed two hurricane survivor photos to imply racist reporting, whipped around the blogosphere and into Romanesko. Updates in the BoingBoing post explain why this might not be the scandal it first seems to be.

Dave Winer is the most beautifully cynical man I’ve ever read in a crisis.

We can make fun of Wikipedia! We can!

sean: there’s a big anti-blog faction on wikipedia, because you know, they are just rumors about kittens and stuff
lauren: i know i can’t stop talking about kittens
sean: did you hear about Mena Trott’s Kitten? What a scandal!!
lauren: i heard that someone was trying to steal a bunch of kittens and sell them on the kitten black market
sean: i heard they were bootleg kittens!
lauren: i heard people were trading kittens without paying any kitten royalties to the kitten industry of america
sean: NO!!!
lauren: for totaly serious

Duncan Riley previews Wordpress.com, because he got into the alpha test and you did not.

Is Jason Calacanis important enough to just ask for a spot in Yahoo’s ad network test run? Hell yes, with $3k in Google Ad revenue daily. Is he big enough to bring down the broken Technorati? Teamed up with Jason Kottke and other disillusioned A-listers, sure. Is he a big enough man to cry? That’s for me alone to know.

Calacanis went and commented on Threadwatch’s post about Technorati’s aging and decaying body.

Threadwatch also says, “Daily links suck.” A few months ago, I might have agreed. But you learn to skim them or skip them, and you can pick up some good tips that wouldn’t otherwise blip on your radar. By the way, drop your headline-only RSS reader and get a full-post one, wimp.

Shitty Blogs: a feed of what you won’t want to read. [via Ze Frank]

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