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Welcome to my blog!

To tell you the truth, I do most of my blogging over on LiveJournal, because most of my friends hang out there.

But I still make occasional blog posts to my website, especially when it's something which I feel is important, or was particularly well received by folks over on LJ.

For those who were around back in 1999 or so, AllAdvantage was a company that provided a toolbar for its users to download, and then paid them for time spent surfing. It was a cool idea, but it suffered from a few problems. One problem was spammers, as well as fraud. That cost the company both money and hurt their reputation. The second problem was that it was a little ahead of its time. In today's Internet, online social groups and networks are much more common, and better understood by the average user.

Enter the newest idea, based on a similar concept: Agloco, which stands for "A GLObal COmmunity". Some of the people who work there the original group from AllAdvantage, and are familliar with the sorts of issues that they will encounter as the service picks up steam.

According to their blog, they are being up front with all of the important issues. Issues such as:

- They do not give out member information, unless required by law.

- They will not use popups or spam, nor will they tolerate members who spam. Seeing that they have Ray Everett-Church on board, I'm inclined to believe this.

- The maximum number of hours you can get paid for per month is 5. This should help cut down on people trying to use programs to "fake" their websurfing while they are not at the keyboard.

There is also the community aspect. They will be giving 100% of their stock to members. This is presumably to get more people involved and interested in the overall health of the company, as opposed to merely "getting paid to surf".

Their viewbar can be downloaded from here.

If you are interested in joining please click here to sign up.

If anyone has questions, please let me know. My understanding is that they are still tweaking things on their end. :-)

This story just made Slashdot:

http://www.evanwashere.com/StolenSidekick/

To make a long story short, an individual's sidekick was stolen, and with a bit of cyber-sleuthing, was able find out the responsible people, their email addresses, MySpace accounts, pictures, address, etc.

Feel free to visit the page above for the full story and all of the details.

Oh wait, they're just a bunch of kids who like to break stuff.

Say, did you hear the one about the SomethingAwful goon who went on a shooting rampage?

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• A "Fair and Balanced" Inauguration - This is an interesting clip from Fox News. I found it while searching for the outtake from Shepard Smith. To make a long story short, one of their guests dared question why George Bush had a lavish celebration after winning the second election, while the war was still going on. The Anchor from FOX did not seem too happy about this...

Welcome to the local copy of my blog. Note that this isn't my "main" weblog. That can be found over on my LiveJournal.

However, I sometimes copy interesting things that I post on my LJ here as well.

-- Doug