The guys at Time.com said well, lets separate the nonsense blogs from those who make sense, so they searched the web and picked out 25 blogs “about something” from the millions of blogs “about nothing”, and asked its readers to vote their selection.
Well, the outcome… was rather predictable to a certain point; the “crazy” fans of Beppe Grillo pushed that blog to the first place; Frankly speaking, it’s got all to do with fanaticism. Three quarters of what Beppe Grillo writes is just bullshit.
Amongst the blogs I read daily, featured the highly productive Lifehacker; 4th place, Engagement; 7th place, and TechCrunch; 10th place.
Amongst the many “unclassified” blogs stand-out the many money making bla bla bla blogs like ShoeMoney by Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow dot com by John Chow, or Problogger by Darren Rowse. It seems the guys at Time dot com don’t buy all those “pseudo money making blogs”
If I have the possibility to add a blog to that list, that blog would be Linux.com. I guess there are still very few Linux fans out there, that makes it difficult for Linux blogs stand-out.
I know why my blog doesn’t feature amongst the 25 blogs; its the 26th 🙂
Which blog would you add or take off that list? Let us know in comments.
Woow… It is very delightful and amazing to see a 17 month old baby read so well. She’s so cute, so innocent that it seems she is not aware of what she is really doing. Her parents should be very proud of her.
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Unix ToolBox is a well made documentation of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks for those who do not fear the command-line and want to get some extra tips. Each task or command is followed by an explanation that makes it easy for comprehension, unlike many other documents of this type.
The document is divided into several categories to ease up research – the navigation sidebar makes it easy for you to pick-out exactly what you want.
It is an ad-free, practical guide for both experts and none. I find it very helpful, and hope it can be the same for you.
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When Morgan Lighter, a friend of mine, told me that he got a strange message/warning from Google when he clicked on my website, I thought it was a joke or nothing serious and deiced not to investigate any further. I prefer writing without bothering much about what goes around the blogsphere or Googlesphere. I control my traffic occasionally and thus Google’s Webmaster tools and all the like. But when 4 days later, after Morgan’s email, I typed Kabatology on Google search, I saw this message that made me freeze – “This site may harm your computer.” Damn it.
I’ve never never indulged in or promoted badware distribution on this weblog and in any other place, and if I recommend Linux distros, and open source apps like Firefox, its simply because I feel safer therein.
What makes me go crazy is that after having followed their instructions at Webmaster Help Center, the reply I got was – – “We’ll review the site. If we find that it’s no longer in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines, we’ll reinclude the site in our index. Please allow several weeks for the reconsideration request. We do review all requests, but unfortunately we can’t reply indivclassually to each request.”
Please allow several weeks for the reconsideration request – WTF. So quick to judge and condemn, yet so slow to reconsider.
The absolute lack of a search engine (Google’s monopoly of the search engine market) alternative should not make Google a bully, but more responsible in its decisions. It is damn true that a lot of websites out there are promoters of badware -to use a Google term, but they can’t tag a site “harmful” for just a minimum-doubt and let it stay in the “dark” for several weeks.
Feel free to browse this weblog, There is no Adware, Malware or Badware. Update:17/03/2008;
Still trying to figure out what could have caused this “Malware” curse from Google. My WordPress is
up to date, even though I some how thing it could be a WordPress security flaw, as of now I have no clues to back that. My web hosting service too just reported no malware on their server side so that leaves me with Ads or links from this weblog. I’ve got Adsense, Bluehost and Ttz Media, but none of these seem to have bad_scripts or distribute malware (Google guidelines say “If your website links to badware, your site’s visitors may be in danger, even when the bad software or code exploits are not actually hosted on your site.”). Update:20/03/2008; Finally Google takes off the “curse” on Kabatology,, I was informed today with an email from StopBadWare.org ( A coalition of tech companies — Google, PC maker Lenovo, Sun Microsystems) and it says “We have received and processed your request for review of your website, kabatology.com/. Google’s most recent test of your website found no badware behaviors on the site. As such, the Google warning page for your site has either already been removed or should be removed shortly. In addition, if your site has been listed in our Badware Website Clearinghouse, we will remove your site from the Clearinghouse list.”
Firefox makes 500 million, not 500 million years because it is just 4 years old but 500 downloads. Wow!!!. To celebrate this open source icon and community project, the Mozilla Team has paired up with FreeRice.com, and appeals to all Firefox users and non, or any body who has ever downloaded Firefox to donate via FreeRice
Mary Colvig at the Mozilla blog says that the goal is to reach 500 million grains that would feed 25,000 hungry people.
“It is exercising your vocabulary whilst donating 20 grains of rice to the UN World Food Program for every correct answer. “
– Kabatology
“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does… the totals have grown exponentially.”
– The Washington Post
“Feeling guilty about wasting time on computer solitaire? Join the growing guilt-free multitude at FreeRice.com, an online game with redeeming social value.”
– USA Today
And you, what do you think of Mozilla teaming up with the FreeRice.com project to celebrate 500 million downloads? Let us know in the comments.
