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Dooce had a Wii giveaway a couple of days ago. I was not interested in the Wii but I am interested how Drupal handled 42232 comments.

The first comment is dated 06.30.08 – 02:02 PM and the last one is on 07.02.08 – 05:05 PM. There are hundreds of comments at same minutes. And those are just comments, this isn’t the pageview. I don’t know how was the pageview.

Here is some technical information on that: http://blurbomat.com/archives/2008/06/30/drupal-is-rad/ This is Jon’s blog. He is Heather’s husband and deals with technical stuff for the Dooce.

Good job Drupal.

Go to lively.com and check it out.

Lively is from Google labs. It provides a graphical environment for chat. I haven’t tried it yet. I logged in with my Google account, selected an avatar and selected a room but the room didn’t load (firefox 2.0.0.15 on windows vista).

Lively has a software. It only works on Windows boxes. I sense that this is the beginning of a competition between Second Life and Google. You can create your own room in lively and you can customize your avatar, I don’t know how far can you go about customization.

Maybe I’ll write more about it when I try it again.

I believe that blogs are saviors of 21th century. Most probably, blogs will improve mass administration. They have already improved democracy. Internet can be a replacement for representative democracy. And this can be achieved through blogs.

Blogs are varieties, they are tendencies.

Recently, I have achieved a goal about blogging. The goal was a decision. I have collected my effort of writing under two blogs (for English that is, for writing in Turkish, I use only one blog because Turkish media in general – also the system of education – is always a mess. It is like a mixed soup). This one is for my technical notes on web and computers. The other is for everything else.

Now, I am planning a series of posts about blogging itself. I will cover how to write better, how to choose topics, how to write in a more relaxed fashion and why that is important, etc.

Since I am very much interested in perceptions of reality, I will also look into blogging and the blogger in this perspective.

Another issue I will look into will be monetization of a blog.

I hope to cover all of them within one month.