You have probably heard of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) but you may not be aware that it inspired the creation of a blogging couterpart called NaBloPoMo. Bloggers participating in NaBloPoMo have to blog daily during the month of November including weekends. “What the heck is going on here?” you ask. Well, it’s pretty simple. You get yourself a blog, if you don’t have one already — and don’t mind me if I’m stupefied at the idea that there’s someone left in the English speaking world without their own blog. Then you look at the calendar, and when the whole world goes, “Oh, I can’t believe they’re already playing Christmas music in the warden’s office!” you’ll know it’s November and that is the month in which you post something to your blog every day, in accordance with the National Blog Posting Month challenge! Last year everybody just went for it, posting thirty days in a row and maybe hoping to win a prize in the random drawing. This year, for those of you who suspect you might run out of gas, maybe you’d like to try blogging on a theme. Follow a news story for the month; get deeper into an issue that you want to educate yourself about; keep us abreast of how your yoga practice / daily muffin-eating regime / matchstick Eiffel Tower is progressing. Or simply use NaBloPoMo as a writing exercise, as an easier-to-accomplish alternative to the marathon that inspired it: National Novel Writing Month. NaBloPoMo has a lengthy blogroll of participating bloggers. There are many bloggers out there trying to increase their posts this month. NaBloPoMo also has randomizer that will send you to one of the participating blogs. If you are looking for blogging motivation NaBlogPoMo looks like a good way to keep you going – at least for a month. There are also lots of prizes. If you aren’t participating this year there is always NaBlogPoMo 2008 when the monthly blogging event will likely be even bigger. Now that we have a month for blogging and for writing novels someone will have to set one up for Twittering – National Twittering Month or NaTwiMo anyone? Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

One Way to Completely Opt-out of Beacon: Delete Your Account
We blogged earlier about Facebook’s annoying Beacon. Facebook’s Beacon was instantly broadcasting information about Facebook users’ online purchases without first getting the users’ permission to do so. Facebook ruined some people’s holiday gift surprises in the process. In response to numerous complaints the social network giant has now modified the way the Beacon news stream functions. Beacon “news items” will now sit waiting on Facebook users’ profiles until they are approved or denied. This at least provides a way for Facebook users to stop information about online purchases and other web activities from being instantly broadcasted to all of their Facebook friends. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really solve the larger issue with Beacon which is that Beacon is aggregating its users online shopping activity. Is there any benefit to consumers in having Facebook compile all this data? The only benefit appears to be to Facebook which will be able to build a constantly improving model of each Facebook user’s shopping behavior. Facebook seems to think they deserve to gather this information about their users simply because they provide them with a free online social networking profile. Facebook is going to really struggle as a company going forward if the only method they have for making money is to violate more and more of their users’ privacy while providing no additional benefit to the users. Facebook is refusing to provide a way to completely opt-out of Beacon so the only way users can get away from Facebook’s invasive new service is to delete their account. Posted in Facebook Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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Syria Blocks Facebook
Reuters is reporting that Syria’s government has blocked access to Facebook. There are thousands of Syrians who use Facebook accordign to the Reuters story. Syrian users of Facebook said on Friday the authorities had blocked access to the social network Web site as part of a crackdown on political activism on the Internet. “Facebook helped further civil society in Syria and form civic groups outside government control. This is why it has been banned,” women’s rights advocate Dania al-Sharif told Reuters. “They cut off communications between us and the outside world. We are used to this behavior from our government,” said Mais al-Sharbaji, who set up a Facebook group for amateur Syrian photographers. There was no comment form the government, which has intensified a campaign against bloggers, virtual opinion forums and independent media sites in recent months. Syria may have agreed to attend Tuesday’s Middle-East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland but they appear to be very serious about silencing opposing political points of view. Ammar al-Qurabi, head of the National Association for Human Rights, told Reuters that there is even a “Internet political crimes” ward at one of Syria’s prison. An article on Human Rights Watch says Syria’s approach to Internet access is consistent “with its efforts to suppress all forms of expression deemed critical of how the country is governed. All newspapers and broadcast media are tightly controlled, and hundreds of political prisoners remain behind bars, many of them serving long terms for peaceful dissent.” Posted in Censorship Permalink | Recent Headlines | Twitter | WWFeeds.com

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