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Everyone is talking about it, so I might as well too. I think it is utter crap that Wikipedia has decided to implement the rel=nofollow tag in its articles. They raised over $1 million in their yearly fundraising efforts, surely they can give their contributors the chance to link to their personal sites. I think this is going to backfire on them. A big reason they get so many quality contributions is because, yes, contributors used to get something out of it aside from just doing something for the good of it. Yes, sometimes we can be generous with our time, but lets show some appreciation and let our links stand.

People are already starting to put nofollow in their links to wikipedia. Eventually, this will probably hurt them to some degree. I know they are trying to combat spam, even the creator of wordpress says that when they added them to the software it didn’t really have an effect in the long run.

I think contributing is very similar to volunteer work. You initially get involved becuase it feels good to do the right thing. But in organizations, you get to meet other people, make contacts, make friends, etc. You have a chance to gain something from your volunteer work or in the long run, would you continue volunteering when your efforts went unappreciated? What do you think? Do you contribute just for the satisfaction of doing something nice?

This doesn’t usually go over to well with the family when the kids are all ready to leave the house and I’m the one holding us up. I’m somewhat of an addict I admit. I do this with forums I’m reading too; I’m sick.. I know . I thought this comic was great!

With Web 2.0 and an end-user-dominated internet being anything everyone is talking about, it is really interesting to watch the effects this can have on our websites, our jobs, and our business. I am getting more and more site visits from various social media sites and blogs. The web is really becoming more and more about WHO and not WHAT. We are taking over websites and we tend to participate in websites that offer us more control.

I recently created a StumbleUpon account when I noticed an incoming link to it from the service. It really is pretty neat in that it allows y ou to rate websites you visit and also see random websites in your chosen categories. Are you a Stumbler? If so show me your page.

Another website of a total different genre that i found is Biznik which doesn’t appear to be just any old professional networking site. Let’s call it networking 2.0.

I’m also a member at other networking communities and they have brought me new clients and job opportunities in addition to the great contacts I’ve made. Does anyone here belong to any of these groups? Have you seen any benefit from them?

De-lurking week is officially upon us! There are a lot of people who stumble upon this blog through search engines or who read it through their feed readers. Now is the time to just say hi and let me know who you are! Be a stranger no more and make yourself known!

If you are a long-time reader, give me a comment too! I want to see who is still alive out there… (cough owen, olly cough)

Come on….Don’t be shy

Performacing has decided to nix the deal with PayPerPost and will offer their blog statistics software, metrics, as open source. Nick Wilson has even recommended that if you don’t want to wait for an OS version of the software, you go checkout FeedBurner’s new stats (which I have just installed).

There is a lot of mixed reviews on the deal between Performacing and PayPerPost and the fact that it fell through. PayPerPost wanted to acquire Performacing which would give it access to their database of more than 28k subscribers. The Performacing community was pretty upset about this as there is alot of controversy surrounding blogging an PayPerPost. In the end though, it looks like Performacing chose to side with their community and while it won’t affect their wallet quite as soon as the PayPerPost deal would have, they have even more loyalty which I think will pay off over time.

A big thing I was wondering was, what would happen to Performacing for Firefox. I love this little extension and didn’t want to see it go away. Instead, it got it’s own little name: ScribeFire. If you’re a blogger and you haven’t used this extension, I highly recommend it, especially if you have more than one blog.