confused of calcutta

This may be familiar to most of you, but it was a revelation to me. So I thought I’d share it just in case.
Malcolm and I were chatting this morning, and the subject of comment spam came up. Both of us had noticed that of late, there had been a profusion of comments that made [...]

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I’m glad my faith in the “system” in India was not misplaced. The sledgehammer was inadvertent indeed.
Thanks to Chukti, I now have quotable information from the authorities in India. It appears that some truly inflammatory material was published on one of the blog sites and an emergency response team was activated as a result.
There is [...]

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I shall comment on it later, but last night I finished reading the latest report from Pew Internet titled Bloggers: A Portrait of the internet’s New Storytellers.
As usual there’s much I agree with, and some bits I don’t. What is important is that we continue to build a body of evidence that explains, interprets and supports the value of social [...]

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