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Around the Blogosphere, 26 July-1 August 2010

Submitted by Erastmus on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 00:20

So, what's been hot on the blogs this week.. well, lets see..  lets start with Mel Gibson. Apparently, someone released at least 5 tapes where the former action hero makes death threats towards his ex-wife, where he admits to have punched her, and mr Gibson doesn't stop there.. he also spews anti-semetic, homophobic and racial remarks on those tapes. Will he be able to get back into the movie industry ever again? Don't know. Time will tell.


Moving on, as I posted a few days ago, BP has photoshopped several of their photos on their official website. BP have confessed to this although blames an overzealous photograph for the doctoring. John Aravosis from americablog.com was the blogger who blew the whistle about the edited photographs, and Washington Post picked up on his story.

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70,000 blogs shut down

Submitted by Erastmus on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 10:01

Blogetry.com, home to about 70,000 users, was shut down last week. Blogetry.com's host, Burst.net, decided to pull the plug on the site after getting an urgent request from the FBI. The reason for the immediate discontinuing of Blogetry's service was initially unknown or very sketchy, some speculating about copyright infringements, and there was no prior warning  given from Burst.net to to the user(s) of the page(s) that was in violation of the User Agreement.

A few days ago though, further information from Burst.net was released listing that the reason for shutting down Blogetry.com was that terrorist material was hosted on the site, including manuals on how to make bombs and also supposedly  an al-Qaeda hitlist naming targets to be eliminated.

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Around the Blogosphere, 12-18 July 2010

Submitted by Erastmus on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 00:10

Not surprisingly, the hot topic in the Swedish blogoshere this week has been the resignation of the the Swedish Minister of Employment, Sven-Otto Littorin. The reason given for the resignation was because of a tough seperation and custody process, and because of being hunted by media in its wake, Littorin stated that personal issues was more important than his role as Minister of Employment. However, a few days later, it was revealed that the allegedly true reason behind his resignation came just the next morning after an evening newspaper found that Littorin purchased sex from a prositute. This has been strongly denied though, and the newspaper who came with the allegations have been sued. Could be damaging for the sitting government, considering that it's election year.

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Drupal Modules Reviews

Submitted by Erastmus on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 10:30

Drupal has thousands of modules, and it's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of different modules available. A number of you might already know about Drupal Modules (http://drupalmodules.com/), but for you who doesn't, it's a community-powered site to rate and review Drupal modules (just as the name implies!). The ratings include Features, Realiability, Ease of Use and Documentation, they have quite an advanced search system that makes it easy to narrow down the modules and functionality one's interested in. If you're looking for a specific modules, or are just curious about what the most popular or used modules are, Drupal Modules is well worth a visit.

Drupal won!

Submitted by Erastmus on Fri, 07/02/2010 - 18:15

So I did decided to change from Wordpress to Drupal over all.. quite a steep change, but I do believe it's for the best; even though I love Wordpress and I respect it very much, Drupal is more flexible and scalable. However, considering I don't know much PHP and have only rudimentary knowledge of HTML, it'll be interesting to see how it all pan out. But it'll be an interesting journey for sure! I love to experiment, and I believe in Drupal!

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