Quick Roundup

I've been busy over the last couple of days and while I'd love to have had more time to post stuff here I simply haven't had the chance. I don't normally do those "here's a few interesting things I saw" posts, but I guess I'll have to make an exception! Krystian has a very odd looking photo on his blog. When I looked at it first I thought he'd been playing with Photoshop again. Boards.ie seems to have been suffering some serious uptime issues (or downtime issues .. ) over the last few days and I keep finding threads on other boards wondering about it ... A couple of posts on Techcrunch caught my eye during the day. The first one - CIA et al get their own social networking site struck me as bizarre, but interesting - which was followed by Playboy getting in on the act. I know I know. Social Networking is like the latest "thing", but how many of these sites are sustainable? Again on Techcrunch there's mention of Wordpress' Matt Mullenweg giving out about open source developers / projects "profiteering". Interesting, but what about this? I remember it being a bit of a storm in a teacup at the time, but it just goes to show how things change .. or do they? I've mentioned dotmobi in the past both here and over on my domain site so the new mobi sitebuilding service from Network Solutions caught my attention. At $2 / month it won't break the bank, but it's not clear if that price is the base monthly price or if it's calculated on a yearly plan. If you're interested in business blogging, then the new guide from SixApart might be worth a read. They're doing some interesting stuff at the moment with their Movable Type platform (which this site will be moving to very very soon) and don't forget - they invented a lot of the stuff we all use! Tomorrow is going to be an odd day at work as we're actually semi-closing our accounts department for the day due to weddings! And the new "in" word according to those "in the know" is "bacn" - pronounced like "bacon" just spelt wrong! What is it? Well it's a cross between spam and ham obviously! Spam (when talking about email) you don't want ever. Ham you do want. Bacn is that stuff that you want, but probably not this minute. I hope it doesn't take off :)